English Literature

Finding Criticism: Books

Finding Books in BC Libraries

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postmodernism AND literature "American poetry" AND criticism Shakespeare AND women

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Finding Books in Other Libraries with WorldCat

WorldCat is a database that searches library catalogs all over the world. With WorldCat you can:

Find books not held by Boston College.
Request books through interlibrary loan.

There are two different interfaces to search the same set of library catalogs:

WorldCat (Firstsearch) This link opens in a new window
Search for books, journals, audio, video, and other print and digital materials from the collections of the BC Libraries and thousands more libraries around the world. This version offers more robust searching than WorldCat Discovery.
WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
Search WorldCat to find materials in thousands of libraries worldwide, including the BC Libraries, the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), and The Center for Research Libraries. Current BC faculty, staff, and students may request items from other libraries through WorldCat.

Finding Articles in Books

Essay and General Literature Index This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. 1985-present.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a key way to find articles in older 20th C. books. This interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences archive contains over 270,000 essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada in anthologies and collections. Coverage: 1900-1984. (See Essay & General Literature Index for newer and contemporary works.)

Cambridge Online

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Full text of 350 volumes of world history published since the 1960's. Full-text searchable.
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
The Cambridge Companions series includes hundreds of titles on literature, music, and philosophy. Full-text searchable. Search for titles, authors, characters in major works, literary terms, genres, etc.

Literary Theory

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden (Editor); Martin Kreiswirth (Editor); Imre Szeman (Editor)
ISBN: 0801880106
Publication Date: 2004-12-10
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48 new entries and subentries and has been revised throughout, taking account of ten years of rapidly changing scholarship.

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
Traces the usage of words, past and present, through three million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

The Dictionary of Old English: A to I online
Based on a large electronic corpus of Old English texts, this onging University of Toronto project provides a search interface with Old English characters, search examples, and results that show usages in a wide variety of texts.

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English Literature

Finding Criticism: Books

Finding Books in BC Libraries

Finding Books in Other Libraries with WorldCat

Finding Articles in Books

Cambridge Online

Literary Theory

Dictionaries