Literature

Useful links

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Reading Lists

Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

Text Archives

Finding Articles

For most assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with. However, if your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles, or if you just want a smaller set of more focused results to look at, try these sections:

• Why Use Journal Articles?

• Databases

• Journals

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• ELH

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A long-standing, peer-reviewed journal covering major works in English and American literature.

• Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Internationally recognized as the leading, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures

• Language and Literature

An international peer-reviewed journal covering the latest developments in stylistic analysis, the linguistic analysis of literature

• Nineteenth Century Literature

The major, peer-reviewed journal covering English and American literature across the 1800s.

• PMLA

The most well-known, American, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of literature around the world from medieval to modern - very popular with staff and students in Portsmouth.

• Review of English Studies

A long-standing, peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present.

• Textual Practice

Britain's principal international, peer-reviewed journal of radical literary studies. Postcolonial literature, queer theory, Gothic and the work of Jean Rhys, Angela Carter and Charlotte Brontë are just some examples of popular articles in this journal.

Newspapers and Magazines

Films, TV, Radio and Drama Productions

Other Recommended Sources

Digital Humanities

Victorian Gothic Recommendations

Referencing

Your Subject Team

Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

email Anne.Worden@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3243

Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3234