Literature Guide

• Academic OneFile
  Academic OneFile provides authoritative, peer-reviewed articles for a wide range of academic subjects such as: Communication, Criminal Justice, Health and wellness, Fine Arts, History, Science, Technology, and Writing.
• Academic Search Premier
  Provides access to full-text, peer-reviewed articles in social sciences, humanities, general science, and education.  Recommended starting point for research using magazines and journals.
• Fuente Académica
  Fuente Académica offers scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.
• Gale Books and Authors
  A reader's advisory tool that includes plot summaries, reading recommendations for similar titles, and searchable information on genre, characters, subjects, and time period. It is ideal for reading groups, book clubs, and students.
• Gale LitFinder
  LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes full-text poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

• Films on Demand
  Films on Demand is a multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos, from full-length films to short clips.
• Globe on Screen
  A collection of Shakespeare’s Globe stage productions. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, the films feature performances from leading actors.

• the Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  This site was created as a resource on women and gender in the ancient Mediterranean. It provides course and teaching materials, bibliographies, and links to other online sources (some of which are dysfunctional). It also provides an extensive anthology of translated Greek, Latin, Egyptian, and Coptic texts.
• Anthology of Middle English Literature 1350-1485
  This site provides materials by and about Chaucer, Gawain, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Malory. It also includes medieval plays and lyrics. This site is edited by Anniina Jokinen.
• Classical Studies
  This is a course guide with links to classical studies materials by the University of Florida Library. It provides links from Crucial Resources in Classics to Neo Latin and many more.
• The Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
  This site was developed and is maintained by Maria Pantelia, University of California, Irvine
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  The site provides links to full text of medieval materials. The editor of this site is Paul Halsall from Fordham University.
• Middle English Compendium
  MEC is maintianed by the staff and support from the University of Michigan Library. MEC contains three Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a Bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
• Perseus Digital Library Project
  This library covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. It hold primary and secondary sources. The editor-in-chief of the library is Gregory R. Crane, Tufts University.
• Scholarly links: Classical, Medieval, and General
  This site provides links to libraries, resources in classical studies, in late antique and medieval studies, and some general scholarly tools for your use. It is maintained by Jim O'Donnell from Georgetown University.
• TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
  This site provides teachers and students texts in the literary and cultural canon that have not been available to students in student editions.
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
  The Labyrinth provides free access to resources in medieval studies. The links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images around the world. This site is maintained by Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine at Georgetown University.
• The Medieval and Classical Literature Library
  This is a library collection of the most importnat Clasical and Medieval literary works. The site was created by Douglas B. Killings and Roy Tennant. It is now maintained by Roy Tennant on behalf of the academic community.

• Renascence Editions
  Renascence Editions is an online repository of works printed in English between the years of 1477 and 1799. The content of the repository is copyrighted to the editors and The University of Oregon
• Women Writers Project
  The Women Writers Project (is WWP) has built an electronic collection of rare and less familiar texts that focus on early modern women's writing with the goal to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible.
• Representative Poetry Online
  This online anthology holds 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years that can be searched by poem, poet, and map.
• Romantic Circles
  Romantic Circles focuses on the study of Romantic period literature and culture. It holds Romantic period texts, literacy critism, bibliographies, images, and more.
• A British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception
  British Fiction holds about 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors along with some contemporary materials.
• American Verse Project
  The American Verse Project is developmened by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The site holds electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. 
• Wright American Fiction
  This is a digital collection of 2,887 books and other texts of American fiction published between 1851–1875.
• Victorian Studies Bibliography
  This site holds articles, books, and reviews about the Victorian period. This was developed  by Victorian Studies and Indiana University Press in collaboration with the IU Digital Library Program.
• Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES)
  This site holds peer-reviewed work for the 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American periods. 
• The Victorian Web
  This site holds primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) about the  British Victorian time period of 1837-1901. It also holds materials written before and after this time. 
• Nineteenth-Century Literature: English, Irish, Scottish, and American
  This digital library of literary scholarship holds cataloged reference materials on canonical English and American writers of the 19th century. This includes peer-reviewed critical articles, books, and biographies, which are available to the public directly through links in the site.

• the Lost Poets of the Great War
  This site was created by Harry Rusche at Evory University and it provides informaiton and the text of poems by some of the authors writing during World War I, a chronology of the war, and a bibliography.
• Index of 20th Century American and British Literature (Alphabetical by Author)
  This site includes scholarly essays.
• Index of 20th Century American and British Poetry (Outline Format)
  This is an index that provides links to free scholarly content, bibliographies, and other materials for 20th Century American and British poets.
• Location Register of 20th-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters
  This register "includes information about the manuscript holdings of British and Irish repositories of all sizes, from the British Library to small-town museums, and about literary authors of all genres, from major poets to minor science fiction writers and romantic novelists" (University of Reading).
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
  This site was developed by Alan Filreis for a course at the University of Pennsylvania and provides a collection of articles and other materials about the literature and culture of America in the 1950s.
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  This is a free database created by Hal W. Hall, a librarian at Texas A & M University. It provides help in finding secondary sources on science ficiton and fantasy genres.
• Feminist Science Fiction
  A hypertext site that includes information about feminist science fiction, fantasy, and utopia, from bibliographies, to critism, and teaching. It is maintained by Laura Quilter.
• The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed)
  This database is a "collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others interested in medical humanities" (A project of the Division of Medical Humanities in the Department of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine). 
• Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
  This site provides information on contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English. It is organized by country and maintained by  George P. Landow at Brown University.

The books here are only some of the texts available in the LBCC library collection. More books can be found in the library catalog.

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
• Famous Quotes and Authors
  Contains over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors.

• Arts & Letters Daily
  This online journal is linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews, and essays. It is managed by The Chronicle of Higher Education and it provides this service for free to readers. New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week. 
• Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ)
  Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
• Early Modern Literary Studies
  Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum.
• Film-Philosophy
  Film-Philosophy is a journal that focuses on the discussion between film studies and philosophy, exploring the ways in which films develop and contribute to philosophical discussion. 
• The Other Voices: The (e)journal of Cultural Criticism
  This is an electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities.
• Postmodern Culture (PMC)
  PMC is an electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. It offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subjects ranging from identity politics to the economics of information.
• Romantic Circles
  Romantic Circles is a peer-reviewed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
• the Romanticism on the Net (RoN)
  Romanticism on the Net (RoN) is an international, open access journal devoted to British Romantic literature. 

In this tab of this guide Roadrunners will find links to resources that provide information about how to do a close reading for texts like poetry.

• a Close Reading a Text and Avoiding Pitfalls
  This resource is provided by The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue.
• Close Reading Hangout
  This close reading sheets provide information about close reading and strategies through a checklist. This resource is Courtesy of the Odegaard Writing & Research Center of University of Washington.
• a How to Do a Close Reading
  This close reading information is provided by the Writing Center at Harvard University.

A major skill that Roadrunners need to learn is to keep in mind while they do research that they will need to cite the information they are finding. This will allow Roadrunners to save some time returning to look for the citation. Making sure that the citation is correct is also important as plagiarism in papers is something Roadrunners don't want to do.

There are different type of citation styles. In literature MLA is the most common citation style used. However, check with your instructor which citation style they want you to use.

• When they are quotating directly from a source. This can be two or more words that are verbatim or when the source uses a word in a unique way, it must be cited.
• When paraphrasing material of others work within their own.
• When summarizing other people's ideas.
• When using facts that are from a source.
• When you use information that is not common knowledge, even when it's common knowledge in your field, but the reader might not know it.
• When expanding on other people's ideas like a method or theory.
• When borrowing a text's plan or the structure, the way it is written.
• When you use numerical information, like statistics.
• When you use an image, which includes a picture, diagram, or other infographic.
• When you use any type of multimedia, like a video.

• Zoterobib
  Free citation generator with no ads.

• British Library Digitised Manuscripts
  This is a digitized database of copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections. The material in this digital library is for research and study purposes.