LibGuides: English Resources: Home

Browse the Stacks

You can also browse the stacks for English resources. You will find literary resources in the 800s. The list below breaks down the Dewey sections.

800 Literature, Rhetoric, and Criticism

810 American literature in English

820 English & Old English literatures

830 German & related literatures

840 French & related literatures

850 Italian, Romanian, & related literatures

860 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures

870 Latin & Italic literatures

880 Classical & modern Greek literatures

890 Other literatures

Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes literary criticism and scholarly articles, biographies, topic overviews, news and magazine articles, ad ebooks. Number one stop for literary research!
JSTOR Scholarly Research This link opens in a new window
Offers thousands of scholarly articles. Look here after you have a good background understanding of your topic. Make sure to use the advanced search to limit your results.
Explora This link opens in a new window
A more general database with a lot of literary criticism.

Gale eBooks for Literary Research
Includes many volumes on specific authors and works; content is written for high school students.

Salem Literature This link opens in a new window
A collection of online reference books.

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
"The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference includes in-depth, specialized titles from Oxford University Press's award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, and a selection of partner publishers' scholarly works. It offers access to over 125 core academic, subject, language and quotations dictionaries.

Get eBooks with Sora!
Log in with your gmail to see an assortment of ebooks you can read on any device. You can also download Sora on your iphone or iPad. Lots of great FUN fiction as well as exciting nonfiction reads.
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Classroom Video on Demand This link opens in a new window
Browse the collection of English and Language Arts videos, or search for specific topics.