Canadian Early Women Writers

From Simon Fraser University – entries provide biographical information, lists of publications, further biographical references and notes on archival sources for 470 Canadian women authors.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

Gale Literature Resource Center provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.

MLA International Bibliography

This comprehensive database combines an extensive collection of full-text journals with the essential index for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing studies, folklore, film, and theatre.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish Literature

Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite

Covering all major academic disciplines, Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals.

Project Muse Premium Collection

The Premium Collection is MUSE’s foremost collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Theatre in Video, Volume 1 (Alexander Street Press)

Contains performances of the world’s leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theatre in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations.

Films on Demand (Infobase)

Films On Demand is a streaming video service containing outstanding educational programs. Many programs from the History Channel, Biography Channel, BBC, PBS and other news channels are included in this collection.

National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

This collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. It showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more. 

Studies in Canadian literature = Études en littérature canadienne

• Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL) is a biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. SCL is peer-reviewed, and welcomes submissions on all aspects of Canadian literature.
  • Available in print: Periodical   PS8001 .S87

PMLA: Publications of the Modern language Association of America

PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884 PMLA has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January, March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature, and the September issue is the program for the association’s annual convention.

• • Available in print: Periodical   PB6 .M68

The Lion and the unicorn

• The Lion and the Unicorn, an international theme- and genre-centred journal, is committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children. The journal’s coverage includes the state of the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies of significant books and genres, new developments in theory, the art of illustration, the mass media, and popular culture. It is especially noted for its interviews with authors, editors, and other important contributors to the field, as well as its outstanding book review section.
  • Available in print: Periodical   PN1009 .A1 L54

Shakespeare quarterly

Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Oxford University Press, SQ is peer-reviewed and extremely selective. The essays published in our pages span the field, including scholarship about new media and early modern race, textual and theatre history, ecocritical and posthuman approaches, psychoanalytic and other theories, and archival and historicist work. Our mission, simply put, is to present the best, most current scholarship on Shakespeare, and we are eager to receive strong work in all areas of Shakespeare studies by scholars at every career-stage.

• • Available in print: Periodical   PR2885 .S63 

Historical dictionary of science fiction in literature

A dictionary of literary symbols

Print resource: REF PN56 .S9 F47 2007

Ruffner's Allusions : Cultural, Literary, Religious, and Historical : A Thematic Dictionary

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature

Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature

A Dictionary of Literary Devices : Gradus, A-Z

A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Print resource: REF PE279 .B47 1960

Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Print resource: REF D114 .D5 1982

The poet's dictionary : a handbook of prosody and poetic devices

Print resource: REF  PN44.5 .P33 1994   

Encyclopaedia of Literature in Canada

Encyclopaedia of Literary Modernism

Encyclopaedia of Literature and Criticism

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Print resource: REF PN1021 .N39 2012

Routledge encyclopaedia of narrative theory

Print resource: REF PN212 .R68 2005

Encyclopaedia of folklore and literature

Print resource: REF PN41 .E53 1998

Encyclopaedia of world literature in the 20th century

Print resource: REF PN771 .E5 1999

The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism

Print resource: REF PN81 .J554 1994

The Oxford companion to American literature

Print resource: REF PS21 .H37 1995

The poetry handbook : a guide to reading poetry for pleasure and practical criticism

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

The Cambridge companion to mediaeval English theatre

Print resource: PN2587 .C36 2008

The Cambridge companion to popular fiction

Print resource: PN3344 .C36 2012

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Print resource: PR851 .L66 2012
 

The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

The Literary Theory Handbook

The handbook to literary research

Print resource: General Reserves   PN73 .H36 2010

Physical Collections

If you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for, you may browse the shelves at the following call number locations:

• P1 – 1091: Philology. Linguistics.
• P87 – 96: Communication. Mass Media 
• P101 – 410: Language. Linguistic Theory. Comparative Grammar
• P301 – 301.5: Style. Composition. Rhetoric
• P302 – 302.87: Discourse Analysis
• PE1 – 3729: English Language     
• PR1 – 9680: English Literature
• PR1 – 78: Literary History and Criticism  
• PR111 – 116: Women Authors   
• PR171 – 236 / PR1490 – 1508: Old English ca. 450 – 1100   
• PR251 – 369 / PR1119 – 1131: Middle English ca. 1100 – 1500
• PR401 – 439 / PR1119 – 1131: Early Modern ca. 1500 – 1700
• PR2199 – 3195: English Renaissance ca. 1500 – 1640          
• PR441 – 449 / PR1134 – 1139: 18th Century
• PR451 – 469 / PR1143 – 1145: 19th Century
• PR471 – 479 / PR1149: 20th Century
• PR481 – 488 / PR6100 – 6126: 21st Century 
• PR500 – 611 / PR1170 – 1227: English Poetry 
• PR908: Diaries   

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840 includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere — including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more — with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture

 Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature (formerly known as British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture) features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering approximately 1733 to 1968, this is without equal a resource for nineteenth-century scholars.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature

The Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature archive presents unique insight into the age of cartography and the rise of leisure travel, spotlighting a distinguished array of historical atlases, gazetteers, travel narratives, and a variety of maps, The materials focus on travel and exploration during the nineteenth century, including myriad sketch maps created during colonial exploration and expansion. Maps, historic atlases, and gazetteers offer unique city, town, and country information first used by the nineteenth century traveller, providing a window into the Age of Imperialism and the burgeoning middle classes. Featuring a multitude of both European and non-European travel narratives, the collection offers a glimpse not only of the lands and peoples these travellers encountered, but also valuable insight into how the Industrial Revolution changed people’s experiences in their ever-shrinking world.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children’s Literature and Childhood documents the growth of children’s literature during the nineteenth century and provides legal and sociological texts to contextualize this growth. Included are texts from Europe, Asia, and North America. In its focus and range, this collection opens an array of compelling subjects for research and teaching. Social, moral, economic, and political questions are reflected in children’s literature universally, making it a particularly rich trove for academic study. Additionally, intricate illustrations and children’s book texts from North Africa are included, as well as full-text, fully searchable content from a broad range of primary sources.