Subject Resource Guide for English Literature
Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 English Program. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.
Electronic Databases
Tompkins Cortland Community College Library subscribes to a number of Electronic Databases which provide access to full-text articles from journals and newspapers. You can also consult our list of Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. To request books through ILLiad, our interlibrary loan service, use the SUNY Union Catalog or WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
E-Books
The ACLS Humanities E-Book collection consists of over 1500 full-text titles made available by the ACLS (The American Council of Learned Societies). This is a fully searchable, online collection of books in the humanities that have been reviewed and recommended by scholars within humanities disciplines. The books are available 24/7, from on and off campus.
Electronic Text Archives
These are full-text resources available on the web.
- Athena: Authors & Texts
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Celebration of Women Writers
- EServer
- Google Books
- Hypertexts
- Internet Classics Archive
- Making of America
- Online Books Page
- Online Medieval & Classical Library
- Oxford Shakespeare (1914)
- Oxford Text Archive
- Perseus Digital Library
- Project Gutenberg
- University of Toronto English Library
- University of Virginia Library Digital Collectionr
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of nearly 3,000 titles of 19th century American fiction.
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Authors
- Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
- Center for Faulkner Studies - The Brodsky Collection, Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State University is "one of the four largest collections of Faulkner materials in the world." Brodsky's personal web site has full-text Essays, Interviews, Book Chapters, & Introductions on Faulkner.
- Mississippi Writers Page
- Paris Review - Has a number of author interviews including:
- Center for Faulkner Studies - The Brodsky Collection, Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State University is "one of the four largest collections of Faulkner materials in the world." Brodsky's personal web site has full-text Essays, Interviews, Book Chapters, & Introductions on Faulkner.
- Edward Albee
- W. H. Auden
- John Cheever
- T. S. Eliot
- William Faulkner
- E. M. Forster
- Robert Frost
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jack Kerouac
- Robert Lowell
- Naguib Mahrouz
- Arthur Miller
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Pablo Neruda
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Ezra Pound
- Eudora Welty
- E. B. White
- William Carlos Williams
- W. H. Auden
Literary History & Criticism
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21)
- Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
- Literary Resources -- Theory
- LitLinks - Has sections on Critical Theory and Literary Periods.
- Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
- Online Literary Criticism Collection
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
- Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
Writing
- Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Citation Guides: How to Cite Sources
- Elements of Style (1918)
- How to Cite InfoTrac and GaleNet Sources
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Monroe Community College Guide to Writing Research Papers
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Poets & Writers Online
- Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Writing Center - University of Wisconsin
- yourDictionary.com
- Citation Guides: How to Cite Sources
Locating Books, Reviews & Publishers
- AddALL - Book searching and price comparison.
- Abebooks - Used, out-of-print and rare books. See also BookFinder
- Amazon.com
- Library Journal
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Abebooks - Used, out-of-print and rare books. See also BookFinder
Journals & Literary Magazines & Newspapers
Poetry
- Academy of American Poets
- American Verse Project
- Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry, 1250-1920
- British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive
- Chaucer Metapage
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Digital Dante
- Electronic Poetry Center
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Milton Reading Room
- Milton-L Home Page
- Modern American Poetry
- Poetry Daily
- Representative Poetry On-line
- William Blake Archive
- American Verse Project
Multimedia Resources
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