GMU's Electronic Resources for English Literature & Language: Web Sites

GMU's Electronic Resources for English Language and Literature: Indexes to Web Sites

GMU Libraries English Web Guide

Biographies, Dictionaries
and Encyclopedias


QUICK LINKS (GMU Restricted)
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>MLA International Bibliography
> Literature Online (LION)
> Literature Resource Center
> Oxford English Dictionary
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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
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 Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
This outstanding resource provides links to online journals, archival sources, scholarly and popular publications, professional contacts, general overviews of disciplinary research, and many more resources. Voice of the Shuttle is organized by discipline and can also be searched by topic.

Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers, this site provides links to web sites dealing with English and American literature

Literature and Language Database and Index List for George Mason University Libraries
Short descriptions of the databases, indexes, and full-text resources available at GMU to aid in scholarly work on languages, literature, linguistics, theory, and folklore.  Links are provided to Web sites. (Some resources are limited to GMU patrons.)

BUBL LINK / 5:15: Language, Literature and Culture
A selective catalog of over 11,000 Internet resources covering a wide range of academic subjects. Under the category "Language, Literature, and Culture" this index includes information on various languages, literature from different cultures, poetry, and folklore.

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Arts and Humanities
From the Internet Public Library, this collection contains web sites pertaining to criticism and biography. Search by title, author, or literary period and nationality.

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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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If you have questions or suggestions, please send e-mail to:
Jen Stevens, Humanities Reference/Liaison Librarian
Fenwick Library, George Mason University

Library Administration, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444