Welcome to the subject guide for English Language & Literature!This guide includes resources that will assist you in completing your class assignments and research. Most of these resources are freely available online; however, only WSU students, staff and faculty may access resources with the icon. If you have any questions or need help using any of these resources, please get in touch with your librarian via the contact information to the right.
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Databases (back to top)
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.
Humanities Full Text
Literary Reference Center
Literature Online (LION)
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
MLA International Bibliography
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Note: A gift of the Frank and Harvey Ablah Families Library Fund.
Oxford English Dictionary
Online edition of accepted authority and guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language. Provides comprehensive etymological analysis and listing of variant spellings while tracing the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations. (OUP)
Full-text access to current content from high quality, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences, including literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Coverage varies.
Provides complete content of printed reference sets in literature including the Critical Survey of Long Fiction. (Salem Press)
World's most comprehensive bibliography with over 40 million records of all types of materials (e.g. books, dissertations, manuscripts, serials, sound recordings, videos) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Coverage:1200-present. (OCLC).
E-Books (back to top)
eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)
Information on how to create an account, click here.
Newspapers (back to top)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993)
Provides access to the New York Times online for the years 1851-2009. This database offers full-page-images and article images. Digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files. (Proquest)
Reference Sources (back to top)
Dictionary of Old English Project
From the University of Toronto. Two research tools are available: a variant phrase search and a list of texts cited in the dictionary.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A online encyclopedia covering Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration-studies.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Full-text to dictionaries, reference books, and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press in a broad range of subjects: general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and Business. 4 simultaneous users. (OUP)
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
A research and reference guide edited by Dr. Paul Reuben, Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Cal State University - Stanislaus.
Resources for Electronic Research
Links to web sites on topics in the Reformation and Renaissance. From the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. From Brigham Young University.
Web sites (back to top)
Routes of English
From the BBC, a site about the English Language and how it developed. Includes links to recordings of over 50 regional accents and dialects of English as it is spoken in the British Isles.
30-minute radio dramatizations of short stories by 18th century American women writers. *Windows Media Player is required.
Voice of the Shuttle
A "best of the Web" portal with many links to resources in the Humanities, Literature, Literary Theory, and more.
BookWeb Industry Awards A comprehensive list of literary awards.
Custom Newspapers Search "book review" as a keyword in the Advanced Search option to find fiction and nonfiction book reviews.
Reviews of Books Links to professional reviews of books having received at least three reviews from respected sources.
Bookwire Lists of bestsellers, titles to watch, and more.
English Short-Title Catalog A searchable database of items published between 1473 and 1800 worldwide, in many different languages.
*Be sure to also check out the Readers Advisory & Leisure Reading guide for more information on the Libraries' leisure reading collection in addition to a number of links to blogs, reviews, book lists and more.