Questions? Ask us! The Bibliographer for English & Romance Literatures, Sarah G. Wenzel, can be reached via email or phone -- or drop by JRL 363.
- Find books (and more)
- @ the U of C: Library Catalog or Lens (beta)
- @ other libraries (WorldCat)
- -- books & other materials in over 10,000 libraries worldwide
- -- request delivery from non-U of C libraries via
(or check other options, e.g., visiting Northwestern)
- other options...
- Find primary sources (full text)
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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-- books on all subjects from 1500-1700
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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-- books on all subjects from 1701-1800
- Literature Online (LION)
- Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana
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-- books, pamphlets, etc. from 1500-1926
- other options....
- Find definitions & explanations (a sample)
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
- Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
- Find articles (and more)
- Modern Languages Association (MLA)
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-- literature, languages, linguistics, folklore
- Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL)
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-- all literatures in English
- Periodicals Index Online
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-- humanities & social sciences from 1665-2000
- FRANCIS
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-- humanities & social sciences, strong in European publications (from 1984-present); print from 1969-present)
- other options...
- Find articles from 18th-19th centuries
- America's Historical Newspapers
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-- 1690-1922
- British Newspapers 1600-1900
- British Periodicals
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-- 1690-1930
- 19th Century Index
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-- American & British journals, newspapers, etc., from 1790-1919
- 19th Century Masterfile
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-- American & British periodicals, 1802-1906
- find more options in Early Periodical Indexes or the database finder
- Find biographies (a sample)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Contemporary Authors
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- American National Biography