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English
This guide includes resources for the study and teaching of English languages and literature.
Databases
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American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new windowAmerican Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
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Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new window
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British Periodicals I and II This link opens in a new window
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C19: Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
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Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new windowThe CLCD Enterprise PreK-12 dB is the premier academic resource for courses needing to locate Children’s and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes millions of fiction/non-fiction titles, thousands of awards and quality reviews including author/title links, lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters to find materials for determining interest & reading levels; selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more.
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Early American Fiction Complete This link opens in a new window
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Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
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Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life This link opens in a new window
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective (H. W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowFind up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
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Literary Manuscripts: Berg This link opens in a new window
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Literary Manuscripts: Leeds This link opens in a new window
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Literary Print Culture: The Stationer’s Company Archives This link opens in a new window
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Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
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Romantic Era Redefined This link opens in a new window
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Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new window
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Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive 1902-2014 This link opens in a new window
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Twayne's Authors This link opens in a new windowTwayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements.
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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
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Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
Not Available at LSU Libraries?
If a journal article or book that you would like to consult for your research is not available via LSU Libraries, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. Articles will typically be delivered electronically and books will typically arrive in a physical format.
For more information and to access your ILL account, visit the LSU Libraries Interlibrary Loan webpage