English

Please contact Aline Soules if you need further research assistance with this subject or if you would like other materials or web sites to to be considered for this page.

New English Books available in the CSUEB Library

Databases

• MLA International Bibliography (the most comprehensive index available)
• Academic Search Premier (general; a good place to start for the novice because it includes full text)
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (key criticism on the works of creative writers now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959)
• Contemporary Authors (select biographic and bibliographic information on authors)
• Book Review Index Online (Gale) (reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media)
• JSTOR (select full text journals)
• Project MUSE (select full text journals)

Web Sites

General

• The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
• The Elements of Style  (Online version of Strunk's classic guide)
• Guide to Grammar and Writing (A wonderful resource from Capitol Community College in Connecticut)
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Another good site)
• Bartleby.com (A useful, easy-to-use resource for writers, editors, and researchers)
• American Dialect Society (Home page of the only scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America)
• Professor Jack Lynch's Home Page (with a variety of literature and English instruction information; some pages are more current than others, but the links are extensive and thorough)

General Literature and Selected Authors

• Bibliomania: The Network Library (Selected full-text resources)
• The Literature Network (scroll down for links to authors; there will be ads and popups)
• American Authors (extensive links to authors, plus timeline, literary movements, and links to sites)
• Perspectives in American Literature (an extensive research and reference guide)
• American Literature on the Web (American and Canadian authors)
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Authors and Writers of Color (minority women authors)
• The Poetry Archive (links to full-text poems by category or poet)
• Jane Austen Information Page (includes hypertext links to her novels and minor works)
• William Blake Archive (the authoritative online site with text and images)
• Charles Dickens Page (Award-winning website by David Perdue)
• Internet Shakespeare Editions (literature and performance)
• Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet (Selected Shakespeare resources on the Internet)
• Walt Whitman Archive (including manuscript transcriptions, audio, and images)
• The International Virginia Woolf Society (their "links" section provides links to a comprehensive set of online resources)

Language

• Computer-assisted Language Learning @ Chorus (sponsored by the College Writing Programs, University of California, Berkeley)

Style Guides

• Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
          A handy web page that makes citing sources for your papers easy.  Includes MLA, APA, Chicago, & Turabian formats.  From Duke University's Documentation Guidelines

Children's Literature

• The Children's Literature Web Guide
• Children's Literature -- Guide to Research and Resource
• Literature for Children (Full-text classics of British and American children's literature published from before 1850 to after 1950)
  
  Awards
  Caldecott Medal Winners and Honor Books
  Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books
• World of the Child --Two Hundred Years of Children's Books (University of Delaware Special Collections Exhibit)
• Beyond Nancy Drew: Girls' Literature in the Sallie Bingham Center For Women's History and Culture at Duke University (Selected bibliography of books considered appropriate for girls--spans the last 200 years