Literature Resource Center Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 writers from a variety of periods and disciplines. Includes access to the MLA International Bibliographic database. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
Literature Online Literary Databases (LION)
Provides access to authoritative online editions of some 250,000 texts in the English language through browsing, keyword, and phrase searching. Components include: African-American Poetry (1760-1900); American Poetry (1600-1997); English Poetry (600-1900); Modern Poetry; English Drama (1280-1915); Eighteenth-Century Fiction; The Bible in English; and, Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
American Poetry
Major American poets prior to 1900 American Poetry includes 40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
1920-present Contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
- JSTOR
The complete text (full back runs) of core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology. (Scroll
down alphabetical list to get to database)
Project MUSE
Offers 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. One of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, it covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, and others. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
- MLA Bibliography
International in scope, this electronic bibliography, published by the Modern Language Association, uses descriptors to index scholarly works (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, proceedings, bibliographies, book series) on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Citation indexes allow you to search for periodical citations on a particular subject. They allow you to take a source relevant to your research and to find other scholarly periodical articles that have cited it. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
Expanded Academic ASAP (through InfoTrac)
Indexes journals (both scholarly and popular) in many subjects, with abstracts and full-text of a subset of the journal titles. Dates of coverage vary by title, with some extending back to 1980. Examples of titles indexed
include: Review of English Studies, African American Review, Comparative Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, and The Kenyon Review. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
The Oxford English Dictionary
The classic dictionary of English. Based on historical principles, it allows you to
see how the definitions of English words have changed over time. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Locate literary critics, movements, countries, and historical periods. (Scroll down alphabetical list to get to database)
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The American Heritage Book of English
Guide to Contemporary English detailing grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms. Ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style. Browsable and searchable.
Armchair Grammarian
A "compilation of the fundamental usage of English grammar and the underlying rules of punctuation."
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
A vigorous assessment of how our language is best written and spoken and how we can use it most effectively. Its 6,500 entries contain thousands of examples, both descriptive and prescriptive, and feature 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references. Searchable.
Common Errors in English
Concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost
business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
English Grammar FAQ
Questions and answers about English usage and grammar from a linguistics professor.
Grammar and Style Notes
Grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage.
WordNet
WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system where English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Search for synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, troponyms, familiarity, and other
relationships. Requires a Java-enabled browser.
World Wide Words
The author provides 1400 pages on this site to talk about English words and phrases: "what they mean, where they come from, how they evolved, and the ways in which people sometimes misuse them." World Wide Words is actually a free newsletter, up
dated weekly, on words, origins, and meanings.
The LINGUIST List
Homepage for the LINGUIST e-mail discussion list. Contains extensive information about on- and off-line linguistic resources, a searchable archive of the list.
The Phrase Finder
A phrases thesaurus and searchable database of a large collection of English phrases and sayings. Can be used to find phrases related to a particular word, learn the meaning of a phrase, or determine the origin of a phrase.
The Word Detective
Word expert Evan Morris writes a weekly column on the origin of words and phrases based on questions e-mailed from the public. An archive of old columns is also available.
The Word Wizard
Offers carefully-selected resources, news about words and writing, contributions from well-known writers about aspects of the English language, and information about word or phrase origins.
The Field of Linguistics
Published by the Linguistic Society of America.
History of the English Language
Some worthwhile Historical Linguistics Links.
Lexicon of Linguistics
The Speech Accent Archive
A project of the Linguistics Program at GMU. "Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive...is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers." 520 samples and growing.
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Literature -- English and American Research Guide
(pdf document)
Literature -- Criticism Research Guide
(pdf document)
GMU English Department Information on program requirements, courses, and faculty
George Mason University Writing Center
An Online Writing Lab, workshop schedules, online handouts, and a virtual reference desk.
GMU Creative Writing Department
Information on program requirements, courses, and faculty
GMU Nonfiction Universe
Professor Jim Henry's excellent resource for and about writers.
The Northern Virginia Writing Project (NVWP)
Its purpose is to improve the teaching of writing to all students in all disciplines from kindergarten through university.
://English Matters
GMU e-journal where language meets hypermedia.
Text and Community
Each year, the Text and Community Program conducts a semester long project at GMU to foster exchanges across disciplines and interpretations of a text from multiple perspectives.
Enculturation
is a refereed journal devoted to contemporary theorizations of rhetoric, writing, and culture.
Phoebe
George Mason's literary magazine, which publishes fiction, poetry, and sometimes nonfiction from Mason students and writers across the country.
So to Speak
publishes poetry and fiction with a feminist theme, publishing both the work of Mason students and writers from across the country.
The George Mason Review
is a journal of exemplary writings authored by Mason undergraduates. Submissions are accepted in essay, fiction, and poetry.
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