English Subject Guide 

Research - Getting Started

Interlibrary Loan

RefWorks

Ask Earl (Reference Desk Help)

This English Subject Guide offers electronic database, printed and other web resources for research in English and American Literature.

Books on English and American Literature topics can be found by searching the library catalog. The majority of books on English and American Literature are found in the PR and PS call number ranges. They are located on the 3rd floor.

If Swem Library does not own the title you are looking for, search in OCLC World Cat for libraries where it can be found and enter an Interlibrary Loan request for the title.

You can also try Google Books, a full-text database of books based on holdings in several major research libraries. Books under copyright will be available only in brief, snippet view.

Google Scholar , a multidisciplinary database of scholarly material may provide some useful full-text scholarship but coverage of academic literary titles is quite limited.

If you are having problems, please email me at afzoel@wm.edu to make an appointment or call the Reference Desk at 757-221-3067

Your professor has assigned a research paper on the recurrent themes or stylistic characteristics of a major British or American author. You are to use at least 5 academic sources.

In which of the following sources would you begin your research and why?

1. Select your choice below.

2. Use the Comments link to say why you chose that source.