E301: Literatures in English Before 1600

Selected Resources for the Study of Literature Before the 1600s


Angela Courtney, Librarian for English & American Literature
Wells Library E-1060
(ancourtn@indiana.edu)

Recommended Databases:

Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature 

Compiled by the Modern Humanities Research Association, this database contains over 807,000 bibliographic records including monographs, articles, book reviews, essay collections and dissertations. It includes poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors. There is also information on the traditional culture of the English speaking world including customs, beliefs, narratives, songs and dance.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Electronic indexes to 1,150 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. The database includes citations published from 1977 to the present. In-library access is available for the years 1975-1994 on a networked CD-ROM. The index is searchable by title keyword, author and citation. A citation search allows the researcher to search citation data (the footnotes to individual articles), taking a known paper and finding others which cite it or finding all papers citing work by a specific author. 
 
Early English Books Online
 
This database contains every book published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States between 1475-1700. This database provides complete citation information and page images.

Inter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Rennaissance

This is a bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance ( 400-1700). It includes articles, bibliographies, catalogues, editions, abstracts and discographies. Over 400 scholarly journal titles have been indexed in this database.

Literature Resource Center

This is a biographical database that includes biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from all times periods and many genres. It provides full text and abstracts of articles from 34 literary journals, links to related web sites and biographical information on more than 1500 authors. A search can be conducted by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.

Literature Compass

Literature Compass publishes peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research from across the entire discipline. It includes 100 new authoritative, peer-reviewed survey articles per year with a reference-linked bibliography for each article. It also provides current abstracts and tables of contents from the key primary journals in the field. The journal explores all branches of literary scholarship.