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English & Literature

Find key resources to support studies in English and Literature.

Featured Journals

These journals largely focus on studies related to British Literature, though their full coverage may extend to other literatures, too.

  • Early Modern Literary Studies, according to the platform description, "[e]xamines English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
  • Shakespeare Quarterly is produced by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The platform description notes that it "is a refereed journal committed to publishing articles in the vanguard of Shakespeare studies. Submissions are double blinded."
  • Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Project MUSE will provide access to the most recent issues). The journal's website notes that it "focuses on four centuries of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century."
  • English Literary History, per its website, emphasizes "essays on all literatures in English and on cultural forms and contexts related to those literatures."
  • Victorian Studies is published out of Indiana University. Its website notes that it features "essays on topics from literature, social and political history, fine arts, science, philosophy, economics, and law;" and that it "is the official journal of the North American Victorian Studies Association." 

Featured Databases

These selections generally emphasize digitized primary sources or other collections from across the British Empire and United Kingdom.