This guide was designed by Rachael Cathcart and Bruce Barron to help identify resources on English and American Literature and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.

The following is a partial listing of subject headings that can be used to locate books and other documents on various aspects of exceptional student education using the WebLUIS catalog:

For further assistance in determining subject terms consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes, located near the WebLUIS terminals or as at the Reference Desk.

**Tip: When using subject headings with the dash(es) seen above, you must type it in as two dashes, with no spaces in between the words and the dashes.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

	Arts and Humanities (Web of Science) A multidisciplinary database covering of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 social science journals.
	English Short Title Catalogue (Eureka) Provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language - as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700. The English Short Title Catalogue is updated daily.
	Essay and General Literature Index Essay and General Literature Index is 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. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index 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.
	Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Group) Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology.
	FRANCIS (Eureka) Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social science (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
	Humanities Abstracts (HumanitiesAbs) Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
	Essay and General Literature Index Essay and General Literature Index is 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. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index 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.
	Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Group) Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology.
	FRANCIS (Eureka) Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social science (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
	Humanities Abstracts (HumanitiesAbs) Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995. JSTOR (JSTOR) Provides fulltext image access to over sixty journal titles from the inception of the titles up to within the past five years. Covers African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
	Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA) Provides information helpful to keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
	Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors (CSA) Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
	MLA International Bibliography (Gale Group) Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to over 4,000 journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University Press) Provides online access to journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more.
	Wright American Fiction (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts included (1731 unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors.

eBOOKS

	Early English Books Online (EEBO) From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
	netLibrary Well over 10,000 E-Books covering a full range of subjects. First time users, click on "Create Account" and choose your User Name and Password. To create an account, you must be in the Library. After a netLibrary account is created, you may access netLibrary from off-campus.

eJOURNALS

What follows are some electronic journals that have published articles on American and English Literature. The years indicate the available dates through this library. Please note that the dates as well as the journals themselves are subject to change. Check with your reference librarian for more details.

***Please note that the dates as well as the journals themselves are subject to change*** Check with your reference librarian for more details.

E-JOURNAL TITLE	VENDOR/PUBLISHER	DATES AVAILABLE
Henry James Review	Project Muse	1995-Current
Shakespeare Quarterly	JSTOR Project Muse	1950-2002 2001-Current
Chaucer Review	Project Muse	2000-Current
Milton Quarterly	Project Muse Ingenta	1997-2000 2001-Current
American Literature	JSTOR Project Muse	1929-2002 1999-Current
American Literary Scholarship	Project Muse	1998-Current
Victorian Studies	Project Muse Ingenta	1999-Current 2001-2002
Jewish Social Studies	Project Muse	1999-Current
American Jewish History	Project Muse	1996-Current
Modern Judaism	Project Muse Oxford	1996-Current 2002-Current
Research in African American Literatures	Project Muse	1999-Current
NWSA Journal	Project Muse	1999-Current
Journal of Asian American Studies	Project Muse	1998-Current
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies	Project Muse	1997-Current
Yale Journal of Criticism	Project Muse	1996-Current
Early American Literature	Project Muse	2000-Current
Journal of Modern Literature	Project Muse	1998-Current
American Literary History	JSTOR Project Muse Oxford	1989-1997 2000-Current 2002-Current
Nineteenth Century Literature	JSTOR Ingenta	1986-1998 2001-2002

 

PRINT JOURNALS

***Please note that the dates as well as the journals themselves are subject to change*** Check with your reference librarian for more details.

CALL #	JOURNAL TITLE	HOLDINGS	CURRENTLY RECIVING?
PS2122 .A14	Henry James Review	v.7-v.9 (1985/1986-987/1988) v.10- 1988/1989-)	Yes
PR2885 .S63	Shakespeare Quarterly	v.1-v.17 (1950-1966) Microfilm) v.18-v.28 (1967-1977) v.29 (1978) incomplete volume) v.30-v.41 (1979-1990) v.42:no.1-2 (1991) v.42:no.4-5 (1991) v.43- (1992-)	Yes
PN661 .C43	Chaucer Review	v.2-v.23 (1967-1988/1989) v.24- (1989/1990-)	Yes
PR3579 .M5	Milton Quarterly	v.6-v.22 (1972-1988) v.23- (1989-) v.35-36 (2001/02)	Yes
PS1 .A6	American Literature	Currently received.Permanently retained. v.1-v.26 (1929/1930-1955/1956) v.27-v.28 (1955/1956-1956/1957) (Microfilm) v.28 (1956/1957) v.29-v.41 (1957/1958-1969/1970) (Microfilm) v.42-v.72 (1970/1971-2000) v.73:no.1-2 (Mar.-June 2001) v.73:no.4 (Dec. 2001) v.74- (2002-)	Yes
PS3 .A47	American Literary Scholarship	1965-1986 1987- 1999	No
DA551 .V53	Victorian Studies	Currently received. Permanently retained. v.1-v.32 (1957-1988/1989) v.33- (1989/1990-)	Yes
DS101 .J555	Jewish Social Studies	n.s.:v.1- (1994-) NOTE: INDEX: Vols. 1/25 (1939/1964	Yes
E184.J5 A5	American Jewish History	v.68-v.78 (1978/1979-1989) v.79- (1990-)	Yes
BM195 .M63	Modern Judaism	v.2-v.9 (1982-1989) v.10- (1990-)	Yes
PL8010 .R46	Research in African American Literatures	v.24:no.3-4 (fall-winter 1993) v.25 (1994) v.26- (1995-) v.33:no.3-4 (2002) (ship#300) Shelved in: At Bindery v.33:no.1-2 (2002	Yes
HQ1101 .N87	NWSA Journal	v.1:no.1-2 (1988/1989) v.1:no.4 (1988/1989) v.2 (1990) v.3- (1991-)	Yes
DA750 .S21	Scottish Historical Reveiw	Currently received. Permanently retained. v.39-v.67 (1960-1988) v.68- (1989-) NOTES: Microfilm: Vol. 48 (1969).	Yes
PN80 .Y34	Yale Journal of Criticism	v.1 (1987/1988) v.4- (1990/1991-)	Yes
PN2 .J6	Journal of Modern Literature	v.1-v.19 (1970/1971-1994/1996) v.20:no.2-3/4 (winter-spring 1996/1997) v.21- (1997/1998-)	Yes
PS1 .A48	American Literary History	v.7 (1995) v.8:no.2-4 (1996) v.9- (1997-)	Yes
PR873 .T76	Nineteenth Century Literature	v.41-v.44 (1986-1989/1990) v.45- (1990/1991-)	Yes

STYLE & WRITING MANUALS

Not everything is available online or electronically. Sometimes the best resources are found in print format. The following materials are some of the best sources for general views of American and English Literature. They are located in the Reference area of the Boca Raton FAU library and, since they are non-circulating, they can only be viewed in the library.

Library of Congress Classification for Literature:

Literature (General)	PN
Criticism	PN 80-99
Literary History	PN 441-1009.5
Poetry	PN 1010-1525
Collections of Gen. Literature	PN 6010-6790
English Literature	PR
American Literature	PS

For more information on the Library of Congress Classification System, see their LC Classification Outline webpage.

REF LB2369 .G53 1999	MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
REF BF76.7 .P83 2001	Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.
REF PE1625 O87 1989	The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 20 vols.
REF Z710 Q37 1997	Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda. The College Student’s Research Companion. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1997.
REF PE1408 .A61844 2000	Anson, Christopher M. The Longman Handbook For Writers and Readers. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2000.
REF Z710 Q37 1997	Draugsvold, Ottar G., ed. Nobel Writers On Writing. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
REF PN172 .E53 1996	Enos, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.

DICTIONARIES/ENCYCLOPEDIAS/HANDBOOKS

REF PN771 .C69	Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1973- .
REF PN41 .H6 1972	Holman, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
REF PR111 .E54 1998	Schlueter, Paul, ed. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
REF PR106 .K35 1997	Kamm, Anthony. Biographical Companion to Literature in English. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
REF PN597 .T94 2000	Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
REF PN41 .C83 1998	Cuddon, J. A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
REF PS153.N5 A3444 2000	Hatch, Shari Dorantes. African-American Writers: A Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
REF PN56.H57 G36 1998	Pendergast, Tom, ed. Gay & Lesbian Literature. Vol.2. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998.
REF PS374.C43 D5 2002	Franklin, V., Benjamin. Dictionary of American literary characters. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
REF PS147 .K67 2000	Kort, Carol. A to Z of American women writers. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
REF PN56.S9 F47 1999	Ferber, Michael. A dictionary of literary symbols. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
REF PR2997.P8 W47 1998	West, Gilian. A dictionary of Shakespeare's semantic wordplay. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
REF PS338.A74 A9 2002	Miles Xian Liu, ed. Asian American playwrights : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
REF PS323.5 .E53 2001	Haralson, Eric L. Encyclopedia of American poetry: the twentieth century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
REF Z2011 .H34 1998	Harner, James L. Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies, 3rd ed.. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
REF Z2011 .B74 1998	Bracken, James K. Reference works in British and American literature, 2nd ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1998.

VIDEOS

The Media Center has compiled an extensive list of videos in the area of literature.

VH 5795 20th Century American Fiction, Part 1 (Lec. 1-4)

Summary: Part 1 of a 4 part series that discuss the great figures in modern American literature. Lecture 1: American Fiction and the Individualist Creed. Lecture 2: The American Self: Ghost in Disguise. Lecture 3: What Produces "Nobody"? Lecture 4: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: Writing as the Talking Cure. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5796 20th Century American Fiction, Part 1 (Lectures 5-8)

Summary: Part 1 of a 4 part series that discusses the great figures in modern American literature. Lecture 5: Winesburg: A New American Prose-Poetry. Lecture 6:Hemingway: Journalist, Writer, Legend. Lecture 7: Hemingway as Trauma Artist. Lecture 8: Hemingway's Cunning Art. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5798 20th Century American Fiction, Part 2, Lectures 13 - 16

Summary: 13. "Light in August": Determinism vs. Freedom, 14. "Light in August": Novel as Poem, or Beyond Holocaust, 15. Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Canon Explosion, 16. "Their Eyes Were Watching God": From Romance to Myth. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5797 20th Century American Fiction, Part 2, Lectures 9 - 12

Summary: 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Tender Is the Night": Fitzgerald's Second Act. 10. Fitzgerald's Psychiatric Tale, 11. Dick's Dying Fall: An American Story, 1 2. "Light in August": Midpoint of the Faulkner Career. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5799 20th Century American Fiction, Part 3, Lectures 17-20

Summary: 17. Flannery O'Connor: Realist of Distances, 18. O'Connor: Taking the Measure of Region, 19. William Burroughs: Bad Boy of American Literature, 20. "Naked Lunch": the Body in Culture. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 6707 Achebe at 70: Birthday Celebration

Summary: A conversation on writing between Achebe and Toni Morrison that took place at Bard College, New York, and their responses to audience questions. 089 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRIC-AMERICAN

VH 1965 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Summary: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the legendary America n author's most famous masterpiece. It is a most thoughtful, moving and joyous story of an unusual friendship and a boy's exciting journey toward adulthood. 121 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LITERATURE-I

VH 2357 Age of Sophocles, The I: Oedipus Rex

Summary: Starting with the opening scene of "Oedipus Rex," the video provides an historical perspective on the ancient Greeks and their experiences with pure democracy. Students can also compare the properties and conventions of the Greek theater with the theater today. 030 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE

VH 4809 Alice Walker

Summary: In this profile, Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: WRITERS, AFRIC-AMERICAN Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

SELECTED WEB SITES v

	GENERAL:
	American Literature in Hypertext
	Cambridge History of English and American Literature
	English Literature on the Web
	Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts
	Citation Guides for Internet Sources
	META-INDEXES TO LITERARY AND WEB RESOURCES:
	Voice of the Shuttle
	The English Server
	Literary Resources on the Net
	Literature Webliography
	WWW Resources for English and American Literature
	Electronic Texts
	MEDIEVAL AND ANGLO SAXON:
	The Labyrinth
	Old English Pages
	The Middle English Collection
	RENAISSANCE AND 17TH CENTURY:
	Early Modern Literary Studies
	Shakespeare:
	Shakespeare and Renaissance Sites
	Shakespeare homepage at MIT
	Other Authors:
	Edmund Spenser Home Page
	John Donne (1572-1631)
	The Milton-L Homepage (John Milton)
	RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY:
	The Milton-L Homepage (John Milton)

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