English Language & Literature

Resources for conducting literary research on English & American Literatures.

British Modernism - quick starts

Reference Shelf

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
ISBN: 9783110374469
The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789
ISBN: 9781405189224
Europe, 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
ISBN: 9780684313597
Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9780313310171

Newspapers & Periodicals

London Times (1785-2019) [via Gale Times Digital Archive] This link opens in a new window
Includes digitized images of every page of the (London) Times.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (1902 - 2019) This link opens in a new window
Contains reviews, letters, poems, and articles in thousands issues of the TLS in the context in which they were originally published.
British Periodicals Online This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text articles published in hundreds of British periodicals during 1680s-1930s. Includes magisterial quarterlies and scholarly & professional organs, as well as coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Contains multiple historical news collections, including British Historical Newspapers (1600-1900), Illustrated London News Historical Archive, (London) Times Digital Archive, and (London) Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive.
Illustrated London News Archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window
Contains digitized images of every page of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Contains digitized images of the pages of mainstream American, British, Irish, and Scottish newspapers and other periodicals, including The New York Times, The Guardian & Observer, The Irish Times, The Scotsman, American Periodical Series Online, and more.
Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2016) This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
The Daily Mail Historical Archive includes more than one hundred years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, including advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society.
The Sunday Times Historical Archive (1822-2016) This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
The Sunday Times offers full coverage of this British newspaper from 1822-2016.
The Telegraph Historical Archive (1855-2016) This link opens in a new window
The Telegraph Historical Archive offers full access to the newspaper from 1855 to 2016.
Punch Historical Archive (1841-1992) This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
Punch Historical Archive contains all issues of the magazine from 1841 to 1992, including Almanacks and other special numbers (issues), as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes, and other specially produced material from the bound volumes.
The Listener Historical Archive (1929-1991) This link opens in a new window
The Listener Historical Archive offers full-text of the weekly magazine that mainly reproduced BBC radio and television broadcasts.

Manuscripts & Ephemera

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Contains maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books devoted to colonial history, politics, culture and society.
English Poetry (600-1900) This link opens in a new window
Contains poems published in the British Isles from the eighth century to the early twentieth century. Includes canonical and lesser known poets, including women poets.
English Poetry, 2nd Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains poems published by poets in the British Isles and the British Empire, including Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
Contains a collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
Global Commodities This link opens in a new window
Contains manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books on the study of global commodities in world history. Users can explore the origins of the commodity -- coffee & tea, spices, silver & gold, opium, cotton, etc. -- their first uses, the trade that developed and the ways in which these items were marketed and consumed.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
Contains documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
South and Southeast Asian Literature This link opens in a new window
Contains fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas, focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras.
Twentieth Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Contains poetry by poets from 1900 to the present day.