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Hello, this is Mark, your subject librarian for English and Comparative Literature. Library staff are mainly working off site but I can still be contacted by email at m.preston@gold.ac.uk, or you can request a one-to-one appointment online. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about Library resources or referencing, and do have a look at the other links on this guide.
Further one-to-one support can be provided by our colleagues in Academic Skills.
Access to e-resources
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E-booksA guide to using the library's eBook collections.
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Electronic ResourcesUse the 'A to Z' below to find links to full-text e-journal databases, on-line indexes and bibliographic databases.
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E-JournalsUse BrowZine to easily browse, read, and monitor thousands of journals.
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Senate House LibraryGoldsmiths students and staff can self-register for instant access to most of Senate House Library’s databases and e-resources by following the steps on our Library Guide.
Selected online resources for English & Creative Writing
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Carcanet Collection The Carcanet Collection provides access to over 150 titles from the Carcanet list, growing in the course of 2019 to around 200 titles.
Carcanet publishes a diverse list of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.
Titles can be synced to mobile and tablet devices for offline use using the Exactly app which also provides access to a handful of magazine subscriptions. For more information see our guide here.
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Drama OnlineIncludes temporary full access to all 3000 plays and audiovisual content until the end of May 2020.
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ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) Part of JISC Historical Texts. ECCO is a digital collection of more than 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and its colonies from 1701-1800.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1473-1700 Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains the scanned images, and full-text digital versions where available, of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Coverage 1973-current. Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
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Literary Encyclopedia A reference source with details of authors, works, and literary and historical topics.
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Literature Online (LION) Literature Online brings together primary texts in poetry, drama and prose with criticism and reference works in a single cross-searchable database.
A video guide to searching the resource can be found here.
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MLA International Bibliography
To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
The MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature. Available as a searchable online database of more than 2.8 million records, this database is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics compiled by the Modern Language Association.
A video guide to searching the resource can be found here.
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Orlando Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual
material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.
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For a full list, please see the yellow 'Databases' tab at the top of this page.
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Black British Writing by This collection of essays provides an imaginative international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English literature, and presents theoretically sophisticated and practical strategies for doing so. It offers a pedagogical, pragmatic and ideological introduction to the field for those without background, and an integrated body of current and stimulating essays for those who are already knowledgeable. Contributors to this volume include scholars and writers from Britain and the U.S. Following on recent developments in African American literature, postcolonial studies and race studies, the contributors invite readers to imagine an enhanced and inclusive British canon through varied essays providing historical information, critical analysis, cultural perspective, and extensive annotated bibliographies for further study.ISBN: 9781403981134Publication Date: 2004-01-01 -
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.ISBN: 9780521871198Publication Date: 2009-12-10 -
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature by Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors who established a place for Native literature in literary canons in the 1970s (Momaday, Silko, Welch, Ortiz, Vizenor), achieved international recognition in the 1980s (Erdrich), and performance-celebrity status in the 1990s (Harjo and Alexie). In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts - Native and non-Native; American, British and European scholars - the Companion includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American literature and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events. An essential overview of this powerful literature.ISBN: 9780521822831Publication Date: 2005-07-21 -
Literary Theory by A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has been institutionalized. Insightful and enlightening, Literary Theory: An Introduction remains the essential guide to the field. 25th Anniversary Edition of Terry Eagleton's classic introduction to literary theory First published in 1983, and revised in 1996 to include material on developments in feminist and cultural theory Has served as an inspiration to generations of students and teachers Continues to function as arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on literary theory Reissue includes a new foreword by Eagleton himself, reflecting on the impact and enduring success of the book, and on developments in literary theory since it was first publishedISBN: 9781118306291Publication Date: 2011-11-30 -
Postmodern Literature and Race by Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.ISBN: 9781107042483Publication Date: 2015-02-19
