Research Guides: Literature & Geographical Regions: British

Recommended Databases

Bibliography of British and Irish History
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles and the British empire and commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Includes the full-text of books, such as the Cambridge Companions to:
British Fiction: 1980–2018, Modern British Culture, British Romanticism, English Novelists, Irish Poets, and more.
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Great for author biographies and cultural information.
JSTOR
Full-text of articles for the full-runs of many seminal journals. See all JSTOR's British Studies titles.
Library Catalog
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
MLA International Bibliography
Modern Language Association's index to literature
Project MUSE
Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press
ProQuest One Literature
Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations
WorldCat
Find books, journals, and archival collections from libraries around the world. Request items through interlibrary loan. Great for English majors because many records include a book's table of contents.

British Library Newspapers, Part I-V
Regional & local newspapers, 1700-1950
British Periodicals Collection
British journals published from the 1680-1940
Early English Books Online
History of English thought from the first book printed in English, 1475-1700, fulltext
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
Content includes: More than 25,000 pamphlets, including advertisements, annotations, cartoons, diagrams and maps, engravings, letters, petitions, and portraits.

Connect to resource, then click on "Pamphlets" to view

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present.

Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History
Overviews & annotated bibliographies on Atlantic transnational interconnections
Oxford Bibliographies: British and Irish Literature
Overviews & annotated bibliographies on topics within British & Irish literature

British and Irish Literature and Its Times
Call Number: Fondren Library, Reference, PR25 .M67
Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century
Call Number: Fondren Library, Red, PN73 .K44 2013
Examines how the following all contribute to the richness of literary research for this era: book and periodical publishing; a growing literate society; dissemination of literature through salons, private societies, and coffee houses; the growing importance of book reviews; the explosion of publishing.
Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature
Call Number: Fondren Library, Reference, PR56 .B34 2006
Shows undergraduates how to use their research time efficiently and how to locate and evaluate material available from electronic databases and the Internet.

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.