Your search for Topic "English" resulted in 16 items.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
What? Historical Abstracts with Full Text is a full-text database covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present. It includes hundreds of history journals and books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.
When? Varies by Publication
Why? World history since 1450 (excluding U.S. and Canada)
Book Review Index
What? Book Review Index is a citation index to reviews of books, periodicals, audio books (on tape or CD), and ebooks. Many of the sources for these reviews are available online (click on the Check MSU Availability link) or in the MSU Libraries' print collection. Contains citations to over 5 million book ...
When? 1965-Present
Why? Citations to book reviews and links to full text.
Oxford English Dictionary
What? The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) contains the complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition. Updated quarterly
When? NA
Why? Definitions, etymology, and usage of English-language words
Oxford Reference Online
What? Oxford Reference Online (ORO) combines over 100 dictionaries and reference books, including an encyclopedia from Oxford Press, into a single cross-searchable database over a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humaniti...
When? Varies
Why? Definitions & brief reference articles from on many subjects
American Periodicals
What? American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines suc...
When? 1740 - 1940
Why? Magazines and journals chronicling the development of America from 1740-1940
British Periodicals
What? British Periodicals offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. British Periodicals is available in two separate collections, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection ...
When? Late 17th century to early 20th century
Why? To find articles in magazines and journals published in Great Britain
Reader's Guide Retrospective
What? Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides citations to more than three million articles from over 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource provides researchers with access to a wide range of informat...
When? 1890 - 1982
Why? Provides indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
What? Search biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's influential literary figures
When? varies
Why? Search biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's influential literary figures.
Nineteenth Century Index
What? C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the art...
When? 1790-1919
Why? Find books, periodicals, government documents, newspapers, archives, and reference material supporting research pertaining to the 19th century and beyond.
Chicago Manual of Style
What? The Chicago Manual of Style Online offers the full contents of the 17th and 16th editions and provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age
When? 16th and 17th Editions
Why? Search and review the editorial style and publishing practices of the Chicago Manual of Style
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
What? The Times Literary Supplement offers comprehensive coverage of the important publications, in every subject, reviewing theatre, cinema, music and exhibitions.
When? 1902-2014
Why? Search the fully digitized Times Literary Supplement
Theatre Record
What? Theatre Record is an online publication where you can view theatre production listings from the West End, the rest of London, Scotland and regional theatres in England and Wales. You can search for a particular production or theatre and see press night dates and press contacts where available
When? 1981 - Current
Why? Theatre production listings from the West End, the rest of London, Scotland and regional theatres in England and Wales
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
What? Nineteenth Century Literary Society offers access to over 1,400 items from the historic John Murray publishing archive, held by the National Library of Scotland and recognized by UNESCO. Spanning the long nineteenth century, the collection highlights the influential eras of John Murray II and III, f...
When? Varies
Why? Digitized archive of a 19th-century publisher, featuring manuscripts by Lord Byron, Darwin’s Origin of Species first edition, letters from Jane Austen, travel writing by Isabella Bird, drafts by David Livingston, and more
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
What? Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse. Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and corresponde...
When? Romantic Period (approximately between 1798 - 1837)
Why? Working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.
BBC Shakespeare Plays
What? The BBC Shakespeare Plays from Ambrose Video provides online access to the television adaptations of 37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.
When? 1978 - 1985
Why? Television adaptations of 37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985
