English Language & Literature

Resources for conducting literary research on English & American Literatures.

Postmodernism - quick starts

Reference Shelf

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
ISBN: 9783110374469
Encyclopedia of the Novel
ISBN: 9781405161848
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism
ISBN: 9780415152945
Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780684313658
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
ISBN: 9781405192446
Dictionary of Postmodernism
ISBN: 9781405150774

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.
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.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text articles from newspapers all over the globe. Coverage varies, but oftentimes available from 1980s to the present.
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.

Manuscripts & Ephemera

African Writers Series This link opens in a new window
Find works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new window
Find short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors published from the mid-1900s to the present.
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.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window
Contains collections of original archival material (manuscript, typescript and ephemera) focused on popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975.
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.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
Contains commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, including The Comics Journal, in addition to an online collection of comics and graphic novels.