English Portal

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), this electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Lion points to full text articles, references to articles, monographs and dissertations, related websites and major literary reference works.

ABELL contains well over three quarters of a million records covering periodical articles, monographs, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world (1920 onwards).

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers) from every age and literary discipline.

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.

C-19 is a one-stop 19th C. finding tool containing multiple resources, including the 19th Century Short Title Catalog (NSTC), The Nineteenth Century (comprehensive information about the 19th C. book trade), Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, British Periodicals collections I and II, American Periodicals Series, the Index to Niles' Register 1811-1849, House of Commons Parliamentary papers, Congressional Serial Set & American State Papers, the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, and the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, and more.

Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights is a digital version of a 6-volume collection edited by Derek Hughes and published by Pickering & Chatto in 2001. It includes transcriptions of first editions of 25 plays written by the eighteenth century's most famous women dramatists, and introductions and notes.

Past Masters provides online access to authoritative editions of the works of seminal figures in the history of philosophy, political thought, religious studies, sociology, the history of science, economics, and classics.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism provides over 2,000 articles about modernism in literature, architecture, visual arts, music, dance, theatre, and film. Browse by subject, movement or place, or search. It will be regularly updated with new material.