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Click any of the links below for guidelines in using MLA format. Note: the MLA Handbook is now in the 8th edition. Be sure your citations conform to the current guidelines.
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This guide is designed to give you a start on your research in English Literature. Use the tabs above to navigate to the different sections of this guide.
Click here to go to the Department of English home page.
Use the databases below for locating articles and bibliographies.
MLA (Modern Language Abstracts) lists journal articles and a variety of other types of materials on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other materials related to Shakespeare from 1963 to the present.
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. The growing collection meets the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools. From the epic to the monologue; ensemble to one-person plays; comedy to tragedy; the historical to the contemporary; and from the highly political to the profoundly personal, there is plenty to discover.
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving-image studies.
This feed shows the English films recently added to the collection.
This feed shows foreign language films recently added to the collection.