English Language and Literature 

Find book, journal and media collections located in the UMass Libraries and Five Colleges.

Combined catalog of most North American and many world libraries.

Obtain a loan books from libraries outside of the Five Colleges or request copies of articles and materials from any library.

A citation management service for storing and formatting bibliographic references.

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Consult especially the Texts section which contains main literary texts in electronic format.

Contains subject collections in the arts and humanities.

Ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives chiefly of authors reading their literary works.

Portal to numerous internet sites pertaining to English literature.

A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.

A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present. Click "Choose Databases" to search specifically within MLA International Bibliography, Short Story Index, and MLA Directory of Periodicals.

A large, interdisciplinary collection of scholarly, professional and trade journal articles, 1980-present. Includes coverage of the arts and literature.

About 350,000 literary works in English: British and American poetry, drama and prose, plus some journals and literature reference sources.

Citations to articles in journals covering theater, dance, film, and puppetry, 1864-present.

Core scholarly journals dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before the present.

Citations and abstracts for articles in the scholarly journals of linguistics, 1985-present.

An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, and linguistics. Coverage from 1920’s-present.

Scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses; 1996-present.