Literature

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

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Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

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A project from the University of California, Davis, which makes available e-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women from 1789 to 1832


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No other resource for early modern scholarship is as comprehensive as Early English Books Online (EEBO) with over 146,600 titles and associated bibliographic records. Users can explore complete, digitized images of all the works listed in the key bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); The Thomason Tracts; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets, musical scores, prayer books and other primary sources.


ECCO is a searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles with over 32 million fully-searchable pages. It is a digitization of the 18th century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.


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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas.


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Access 441 mainly Greek and Latin texts in English translation.


42,000 out-of-copyright books online.


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This archive preserves thousands of electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education. Texts available range from Treasure Island and Moby Dick to Tristram Shandy and Shakespeare plays.


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An international public resource that provides unified access to major works of visual and literary works that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility.

 

Victorian Gothic Recommendations

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If you're on the MA Victorian Gothic, make sure you look here!

Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA 7, including advice about reference generators

Your Subject Team

 Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

email Anne.Worden@port.ac.uk

 Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk