Subject Guide English and American Studies

Shortened print version of Subject Guide linguistics and literatures (PDF)

Databases

Please also note databases for General and comparative linguistics and literature studies.

• MLA  
  International bibliography on modern languages and literatures
• Library of Anglo-American Culture & Hstory
  "The Library of Anglo-American Culture & History serves as a portal for the Special Subject Collection Anglo-American Cultural Area maintained by Göttingen State and University Library. Its metasearch engine includes the library’s catalogue, bibliographic databases, subject catalogues of scholarly websites and full-text databases."
• America - History and Life
• DBIS
  freely accessible databases and electronic full texts, including National licenses

Linguistics

• Bibliographie linguistischer Literatur (Bibliography of Linguistic Literature, BLLDB)  - Information on BLLDB
• Dictionaries online
• CD-ROMs in Emil-Figge-Bibliothek

Literature

• Englische Bibliographie 15. Jahrhundert - 1901   - (English Bibliography 15th century - 1901) Information on English Bibliography 15th century - 1901
• Englische Bibliographie 1901 - 1945   - (English Bibliography 1901 - 1945) Information on English Bibliography 1901-1945
• Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
  Dictionary of world literature from the beginnings to the present
• Kritisches Lexikon der fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur KLfG - Information
  Report period: from 1945 on

Journal articles

• Online Contents SSG Anglistics
  Provides bibliographic records from 432 journals from 1993 on. Approx. 201,000 articles and reviews

Medieval studies

• Lexikon des Mittelalters   (Dictionary of the Middle Ages) - Information on Lexikon des Mittelalters

Folklore

• Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie (IVB) online
  International bibliography of folklore. Report period: 1985-1998; approx. 80,000 records

Didactics of language and literature

• Fis Bildung Literaturdatenbank
  German Education Index. - Contains bibliographic records from all fields of educational sciences and specialized didactics. Report period: 1980 -

Electronic Full Texts

• National licenses (accessible throughout Germany):
  • Corvey Digital Collection: Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries - Information
  • Early American Imprints, Series I, 1639 - 1800 und II, 1801 - 1819 - Information
  • Early English Books Online - Information on Early English Books Online
  • Eighteenth century collections online - Information on Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • English Language Women's Literature of the 18. and 18. centuries - Information on English Language Women's Literature
  • North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories - Information on North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
  • Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - Information on Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
  • Twentieth Century North American Drama - Information on Twentieth Century North American Drama
  • Wales related Fiction of the Romantic Period - Information on Wales related Fiction

• In the Digital Library:  
  • English Poetry , 2. Edition - Information on English Poetry
  • The Brontës (Major Authors on CD-ROM) - Information on The Brontës
  • Johnson, Samuel, and James Boswell (Major Authors on CD-ROM) - Information on Johnson and Boswell
  • Shakespeare, William: The Arden Shakespeare - Information on Arden Shakespeare
  • Whitman, Walt (Major Authors on CD-ROM) - Information on Walt Whitman
  • Woolf, Virginia (Major Authors on CD-ROM) - Information on Virginia Woolf

Full Text Archives

Full text archives usually contain texts of authors which are not subject to copyright. The following archives also contain translations into English.

• Alex
• bibliomania
• Electronic Literature Directory
• Electronic Poetry Center (University of Buffalo, N.Y.)
• Electronic text center (University of Virginia)
• EServer.org (University of Washington)
• Page By Page Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Renascence Editions
  "An Online Repository of Works printed in English between the Years 1477 and 1799"
• Representative Poetry Online (Department of English, University of Toronto)

William Blake

• William Blake Archive
• The On-line Concordance to The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake / David V. Erdman, ed.

William Shakespeare

• Absolute Shakespeare
  "the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre"
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Shakespeare in Europe (Uni Basel)
• Shakespeare Online
• Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society)
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
• The Collected Works of Shakespeare
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Shakespeare in quarto
  "the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto" with a great link collection on Shakespeare's life and work

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Links

• Düsseldorf Virtual Library: English and American Studies (in German)
• University Library Mannheim: English Studies Information Server
• Deutscher Bildungsserver (German Education Server)
  Materials for English teaching
• Bilinguales Lehren und Lernen (Bilingual Teaching and Learning)
  A multimedia project in bilingual teaching of the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik and IT and Media Centre of TU Dortmund (EWS: Electronic Workspace)

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