English 3000: History of British Literature to 1700
Getting Started:
Pirate Sourcecontains subject research guides for a wide variety of subject areas. Librarians choose databases, web pages, and reference materials to help you get started doing research in that subject. Relevant subjects may include:
History categories
Literature categories
Theatre
Women's Studies
Selected Reference Books:
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing: Ref PN682 .W6 C36 2003
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson: Ref PE1620 J6 1967
Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Ref D114 .D5 1982
Medieval England: An Encyclopedia: Ref DA129 M43 1998
Middle English Dictionary: Ref PE679 M54
Religious Holidays and Calendars: Ref CE6 K45 2004
Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia: Ref HQ1143 .W643 2004
Literature Online (LION): LION brings together multiple components: indexing of critical articles based on MLAIB and ABELL (see above), 175 fulltext critical journals, the Bibliography of American Literature, fulltext reference resources, and 18 collections of fulltext fiction, drama, and poetry.
Literature Resource Center. Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Years of Coverage: Varies
Literary Index: Online index to the Gale Literature Criticism sets, including the following:
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Set of books which collect reprinted essays grouped by author or theme. The essay in CMLC is not always the complete essay; sometimes it is excerpted. Ref PN 610 C53x.
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Set of books which collect reprinted essays grouped by author or theme. The essay in LC is not always the complete essay; sometimes it is excerpted. Ref PN 86 L56.
Shakespearean Criticism: Set of books which collect reprinted essays grouped by author or theme. The essay in SC is not always the complete essay; sometimes it is excerpted. Ref PR 2965 S43.
JSTOR: Online fulltext of back issues of high quality scholarly journals
Periodicals Index Online (look for links to Periodicals Archive Online; formerly PCI Fulltext): Indexing of scholarly journals prior to 1995.
Electronic Beowulf: CD-ROM with "zoomable" images of the Cotton MS. Vitellius A.xv, Thorkelin transcripts, Conybeare's and Madden's 19th C. collations, and more.
Hengwrt Chaucer: CD-ROM with "zoomable" images of the manuscript, including the Tales and their transcriptions
Literature Online (LION): LION brings together multiple components: indexing of critical articles based on MLAIB and ABELL (see above), 175 fulltext critical journals, the Bibliography of American Literature, fulltext reference resources, and 18 collections of fulltext fiction, drama, and poetry. To view the collections from the LION homepage, click the Individual Collections link . Browsing the Complete Contents allows navigation by time period and author.
Women Writers Online:Full text of works by early modern women writers, including the subset Renaissance Women Online. Contains introductions written by scholars in the field and covers a number of various genres ranging from drama and poetry to cookbooks, translations and trial narratives.
If It's Not FullText:
How can I see articles?
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serial Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance learning student living outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending.
Citation Linker: If you already have a citation from someone else’s bibliography and want to find out if we have that article, key it into the Citation Linker. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate an menu of options that works like the one described above.
