English Literature

Publisher: Columbia University Press

For nearly a century, Granger's has been the resource that libraries and researchers trust "the best available general index to poetry" (Booklist). First introduced on CD-ROM in 1991 and revised in 1995, it has now been expanded and updated, ensuring that its coverage stays up to the minute and the software for accessing it remains state of the art.

At Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, users currently have access to almost 220,000 poems in full text along with 450,000 poem citations. With the re-designed site, searching is greatly enhanced and user friendly and there are new searches by era or school, nationality, publication date, language, cultural identity, and gender. And there is much more.

Columbia Granger's is an invaluable tool for any one who or wants to learn about poetry. With the new database some of the most important works of literature, The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, The Divine Comedy, are presented in their entirety, in easy-to-navigate form, so that readers can understand the order in which they were composed and meant to be read. These works may be studied in part or sequence. In addition each work appears in modern spelling along with its original language, Middle English, Old English, and Italian, respectively. This is another unique benefit of Columbia Granger's World of Poetry. An exciting new feature is the split screen option that will allow advanced users the ability to view works side-by-side for comparison. For example, The Canterbury Tales can be viewed in Middle English next to the modern translation. This feature along with the extensive body of poetry will allow for an innovative method to explore poetry.

For general readers and librarians the new subject search (and browse) will be especially welcome with poems organized across 6,000 subjects. All the popular searches are here, love, death, mother, children, but of special interest is the organization by hierarchies such as History, U.S. Civil War, Battle of Antietam or Battle of Bull Run. And there is more to come such as audio to selected poems. Subscriptions provide unlimited user access.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Literature Resource Center is the most current and comprehensive online literature database available to libraries. Mapped to the literature curriculum, the resource's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches to literature, including theatre and film. Students and researchers will find full-text biographies, reviews and criticism on authors and their works, from every era and from around the world.

Contains:
More than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 scholarly journals and literary magazines, including English Historical Review, Early Modern Literary Studies and the Germanic Review
In-depth biographies on more than 135,000 authors (20,000 non US authors), from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism. researchers will find detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works including Harold Pinter, Nadine Gordimer, W.G. Sebald, Zadie Smith and Michel Houellebecq
More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
More than 8,500 interviews
Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits
The ability to identify authors and works that share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender
Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

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Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+

Publisher: Cengage Learning

A poem for every interest , an essay for the ages, a story that touches the soul. Welcome to LitFinder - the largest, most accessible collection of literature available online. This comprehensive database guides users easily through the world of poetry, fiction, drama and much more. What will you find? 650 nationalities and ethnicities represented, international in scope, great writers from all eras. 850 Spanish-language poems with English translations. 865 explanations providing detailed analyses for poems and short stories. 3,500 poems and stories published in the current year. 5,000 full-text short stories. 2,800 full-text essays. 1,800 full-text speeches. 1,000 full text plays. 27,000 women writers represented. 126,500 full-text poems in a database which is constantly updated. 850,000 poem citations and excerpts. Biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary are also included.

LitFinder's easy-to-use interface allows pupils to easily target the information they are looking for or to browse the database through various search and browse options. For example, you can find everything from: the sonnets of Shakespeare to the modern poetry of Simon Armitage; the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African women; the speeches of Martin Luther King to Winston Churchill; short stories by Charles Dickens to stories and poems by Roald Dahl; essays on subjects such as: the arts, science, religion. LitFinder helps enhance understanding of literature with a number of tools linked to search results: Explanations: scan a list of more than 865 concise, expert written essays on specific works of literature; or use a Basic Search to narrow your result. Glossary of Terms: more than 150 poetic terms receive fast definitions. Exploring Poetry: more than 25 expert written discussions cover most 20th century poetic schools and movements, including Asian-American, Harlem Renaissance, Beat Movement and Imagism. Wide ranging coverage also includes Native American, British, Colonial and Civil War poetry. Author of the Month: this home page feature spotlights an author of contemporary or historical interest. Results often include biographical and bibliographical information, essay and picture. LitFinder is an ideal alternative to Web surfing, as it connects users with reliable, in depth and constantly updated information on authors and their works. From an ancient Persian poem to a Restoration play to a modern day policy speech, LitFinder delivers up to a million examples of full-test, indexed and excerpted literature, along with thousands of citations, biographies, explanations, overviews and images to enhance understanding. LitFinder offers an answer for every literature question. An annual subscription provides unlimited user access at school plus remote access. Prices change 1st April each year.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Now offering a rapidly expanding range of subject areas and on-going enhancements to the site, Oxford Bibliographies is reaching more scholars and students than ever before, increasing productivity, saving time, and elevating the quality of research.

Key Features:
Selective: Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline - whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set - streamline the research process
Credible: Each subject area is overseen by an Editor in Chief, an Editorial Board, and peer reviewers, ensuring a balanced perspective with scholarly accuracy, authority, and objectivity
Original Scholarly Content: Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field, with original commentary and annotations by top scholars, making it an authoritative guide to the current scholarship
Seamless Pathways: Intuitive linking and discoverability tools help users quickly locate full text content to prevent dead ends
Customization: Oxford Bibliographies personalization allows you to sign in to create a personalized list of citations with your own notes and annotations
Up to Date and Expanding: A robust updating program keeps researchers informed of advances in their field
Discoverability: MARC 21 records available at the subject and article level; Open URL and full-text DOIs seamlessly link citations to the library's catalog increasing discoverability and usage of library resources

Modules currently available:
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Format: Online
Key stage: 4, 5
Age range: 14-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. The Oxford Handbooks are one of the most successful and cited series within scholarly publishing, containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field and for the first time, the entire collection of work across 14 subject areas is available here:

Archaeology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion.

Features:
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Oxford Scholarship subscribers can link from Oxford Handbooks Online.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4, 5
Age range: 14-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Crowning the Shakespeare 400th-anniversary year, The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.

The three interconnected print publications and the online edition have been created by an international, intergenerational team of scholars under the leadership of Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. The project's scope, depth, and vision provide the perfect platform for the future of Shakespeare studies.

"The New Oxford Shakespeare addresses 'the great variety of readers'-students, scholars, actors, writers, artists - in multiple formats, at multiple levels. It combines the best of previous scholarship with twenty-first century tools to find better solutions to old problems."

The Online edition brings the content of all three print volumes together as one powerful resource, presented on the Oxford Scholarly Editions Online platform

Modern Critical Edition
- Modern spelling for reading and study
- A complete Shakespeare for students and teachers
- Annotated with performance points and explanatory notes
- Timelines and compilations of historical and modern critical responses
- Available now - November 2016

Critical Reference Edition
- Original spelling from folio and quarto copy-texts
- A complete Shakespeare for literary and bibliographic scholars
- Detailed critical apparatus supports chosen readings and emendations
- Introductions cover original performance details and textual history
- Available December 2016

Authorship Companion
- The editorial principles of the edition for literary scholars
- Methods of statistical analysis for attribution studies
- A major contribution to the debates over what Shakespeare wrote
- Case studies on the authorship of problematic plays and passages
- Available early 2017

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

'This is a game-changing online file that surpasses the equivalent print editions and is recommended for serious scholarship in the humanities ...'

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) are the cornerstones of humanities scholarship, and Oxford University Press's list is unparalleled in breadth and quality.

Provides access to more than 750 scholarly editions of material written between 1485 and 1837, plus Classical Latin poetry, history, and drama. Currently includes all of Shakespeare's plays, the complete works of Jane Austen, Ovid, and Virgil, the poetry of John Donne and much more.

The collection is set to grow into a massive virtual library, ultimately including the entirety of Oxford's distinguished list of authoritative scholarly editions, from the Oxford Classical Texts to the Romantic poets and from medieval Latin chronicles to the twentieth century.

By publishing these texts online, OSEO makes highly sought after editions more accessible, searchable, and interconnected than ever before.

Overseen by a prestigious editorial board of prominent academics, led by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director of the Rare Book School at University of Virginia) , ensuring the highest editorial standards. Unlocking texts with OSEO, users can...

- Browse each text's editor's record of important variations, and interpretative and explanatory notes directly alongisde the text
- Be assured of authoritative and reliable content with scholarly accreditation
- Utilize excellent searching and linking facilities
- Access editions anywhere, anytime - teach a class across the world knowing everyone is using the same, trusted edition

OSEO will grow into a massive virtual library, with new content added in chronological steps until ultimately it will include all of Oxford's distinguished list of authoritative scholarly editions, from the Oxford Classical Texts to the Romantic poets, and from medieval Latin chronicles to the twentieth century.

Readership: Academics, postgraduates, undergraduates working primarily in the fields of English Literature, Philosophy, History, and Religion.

"This is a game-changing online file that surpasses the equivalent print editions and is recommended for serious scholarship in the humanities everywhere." - Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal

"These digitized scholarly editions are not intended to eclipse the print volumes. Indeed, one can well imagine working with the print and electronic formats in concert. What this new version does confer is a whole new level of discoverability." - J. Millhorn, Northern Illinois University, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Editors' Picks)

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"Such editions have the familiar advantages of being able to search across a large corpus of material as well as notes which can be viewed alongside the text rather than tucked away at the end of a printed book." - Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education

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The following Modules are available:
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Shakespeare
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Latin: Drama, History and Poetry

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4, 5
Age range: 14-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Combines excellence with innovation, a unique and invaluable tool for both teaching and research. The most important scholarly books that Oxford University Press publishers in the humanities and social sciences are now accessible online for a one-time purchase fee or by annual subscription.

The following subject modules are available: Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Music.

Special features make research easier and results more relevant. Oxford has commissioned keywords, book and chapter abstract for each work. Vast majority are written by the original author, alongside journal abstracts through a variety of online services. Reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes to available online content, such as journals from wide range of publishers, helps scholars and students discover new resources. Classic works of scholarship and newly published works are more accessible than ever before, making this a unique and invaluable research tool for scholars and students. Includes: full text of 1000+ carefully selected titles, 250,000+ book pages, 100+ million words, with at least 200 new books added each year. Each book has to be approved by a board of leading academics from Oxford University.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

The perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly ... Launched by Oxford University Press
in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Economics to Documentary Film - now available Online. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable. Brilliant. Sharp. Inspiring. Over 370 Very Short Introductions are now available as an online resource offering scholars and students OUP's premier publishing series in an easily discoverable, fully cross searchable, and highly accessible format. Titles can now be found directly alongside reference, biography, bibliography,monograph, dictionary, scholarly, and journal content, making them a more integrated and accessible part of digital research journeys than ever before. Inspiring services for Librarians. Very Short Introductions cover the following subject areas:

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Brilliant benefits for all kinds of users. Whether you are a researcher, lecturer, student, or just avidly curious, Very Short Introductions allow you to discover a new topic or subject through an intelligent and serious introduction written by authors who are experts in their field. Regularly updated with the newest titles, this online resource can benefit your work and research. Includes Reading Guides and Videos.

Benefits for students: Consider study options, embark on a new module, topic, or essay, or revise a particular topic or subject. Use comprehensive interlinking with other Oxford online resources, enhancing journeys from
introductory material to advanced content. Remotely access the resource from anywhere and at any time-read and research on-the-go.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Presents transcriptions, collations, digitised images of all 58 pre-1500 manuscript and print versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous poem, an important section of The Canterbury Tales. Allows sophisticated searches of all manuscripts of simultaneously, for rapid access to large archive of information of a kind never before realised.

Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
ISBN: 521465931

Publisher: World Book Inc

Premier collection of highly illustrated, engaging titles that supports a span of curriculum areas and reading levels. Goes above and beyond other eBook platforms by providing a child-friendly layout and extensive subject coverage, as well as such interactive features as games, videos, and audio clips.

eBook Series: selection of World Book's acclaimed series of nonfiction titles in eBook format. Supports a span of curriculum areas and reading levels. These highly illustrated and engaging titles can be accessed 24/7 on desktop computers, iPad®s, iPhone®s, and a selection of Android devices.

Open Access: collection of popular fiction and nonfiction eBooks from timeless authors available on World Book's easy-to-use online digital platform. Students fulfilling curriculum- based reading requirements benefit from unlimited simultaneous access to eBooks, no holds or waiting for the entire school or classroom! All ages.

Key Features:
- Personalize your eBooks account with customized Bookshelves
- Annotate and highlight text
- Save annotations, highlights, and bookmarks to individual accounts
- Collection spans nearly all curriculum areas
- 24/7 unlimited simultaneous access and unlimited downloads for offline reading
- Offline notes synchronize with online reader
- Automatically updated and continually growing collection at no additional charge
- Interactive features include fun educational games and quizzes
- Built in ePub 3, allowing for rich supplemental audio and video content
- Supported on tablets and handheld devices including iPad, Google Nexus 7, Samsung: Galaxy Note 10.1; Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

eBook Classics
World Book Classics is a collection of over 1500 popular fiction and nonfiction eBooks from timeless authors. Students fulfilling curriculum based reading requirements benefit from unlimited simultaneous access to eBooks, no holds or waiting for the entire school or classroom. Includes the following Classics:

- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Macbeth, William Shakespeare
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 2, 3, 4
Age range: 10-18+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

The World Shakespeare Bibliography in association with The Folger Shakespeare Library. This searchable electronic database consists of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published, or produced, worldwide from 1960 to the present.

An essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England. Search international Shakespeare scholarship including articles, books, chapters, dissertations, editions, adaptations, and digital projects. Access to information about and reviews of films, professional stage productions, music, and recordings from around the globe. Features include:

- The most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions
- Over 126,000 annotated and cross-referenced entries and over a million reviews
- Provides diverse types of content, including books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, reviews of films and stage productions, and multimedia
- Extends to over 120 languages, representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Oceania
- Sources cover work/productions from 1960 to today, and the site is updated on an on-going basis
- Complex bibliographic searches by subject, author, title, and phrases

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+