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English Studies

Resources for English Studies

English Studies definitions and overviews

Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

A companion to Renaissance drama	Covers various aspects of Renaissance drama. Access for UOW staff and students only
A companion to Victorian poetry	Covers various aspects of poetry and culture in Victorian times. Access for UOW staff and students only
The essential guide to children's books and their creators	A dictionary of children's literature, focussing primarily on American authors. Access for UOW staff and students only
Glossary of Poetic Terms	Part of the Representative Poetry Online website from University of Toronto
Oxford English Dictionary	Second Edition. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries. Access for UOW staff and students only
Oxford Reference Online	Includes Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms and Companions to Shakespeare, Twentieth-Century Poetry, English and American Literature. Access for UOW staff and students only

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms	801.9503/3
Cambridge companion to Australian literature	828.993/44
Critical survey of literary theory	801.95/223
Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English	820.991712/15
A Guide to Australian children's literature	011.62/55
The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics	809.103/1A

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English Studies books and more

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English Studies journal articles

Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and reviews

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Database	Notes	Truncation symbol	Help
AustLit	Australian literature. Australian creative writing and Australian writers. From 1880s, comprehensive from 1988 - present	*	AustLit search tips
Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT)	Current affairs, humanities, politics and social sciences. Australian. Some fulltext	*	Informit search tips
Expanded Academic ASAP	General database in arts, humanities and social sciences. Some fulltext	*	InfoTrac search tips
JSTOR	Fulltext archives of significant scholarly journals. Includes arts, humanities and social sciences	?	JSTOR search tips
MLA International Bibliography	Modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.	*	CSA search tips

Complete list of Arts databases

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Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
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e.g. detective fiction AND gender
To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords

e.g. gender OR femininity
Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.
e.g. fem* retrieves female, females, feminine, femininity, feminist, feminism
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English Studies Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Try the following sites as a starting point.

Australian literature

Australian Literature on the Internet
National Library of Australia guide
Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts
Guides to literary manuscripts collections
National Library of Australia guide
OzLit
Australian literature
Project Gutenberg of Australia
Online texts by Australian writers, works about Australia and works which may be of interest to Australians
SETIS: Australian Literary and Historical Texts
Fulltext collection of 19th and early 20th century Australian literary and historical texts from the University of Sydney.

Books and short stories online

The On-Line Books Page
Try here first
Books-On-Line.com
Internet Public Library - Online Texts Collection

Canadian literature

Canadian literature
includes digital collections, virtual exhibitions and research guides from the National Library of Canada

Children's literature

Australian Authors and Illustrators
Children's Book Council of Australia
includes links to related sites
Children's Literature Web Guide
links to sites worldwide

Poetry

Bartleby.com Verse
OzLit Poetry page
Representative Poetry On-Line
University of Toronto English Library
SETIS: Australian Verse Texts
University of Sydney Library

Search engines

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

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Directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

UOW sites

Faculty of Arts - English Studies Program

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