Research Guides: English: Find Books

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Combined online catalog of over 9,000 libraries customized to connect directly to Healey Library holdings & interlibrary loan (ILL).

Recommended E-book Collections

Full-text electronic books can be found by searching UMBrella and ebook collections. The following collections are particularly good for English:

Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Companion series covers the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies. Each Companion includes essays devoted to a particular person or subject such as Freud, Hemingway, modern Latin American culture, and the African American novel.

The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing by David Morley (Editor); Philip Neilsen (Editor)
ISBN: 9781139028417
Publication Date: 2012-03
The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship by Neil Fraistat (Editor); Julia Flanders (Editor)
ISBN: 9781139044073
Publication Date: 2013-05

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925 by Katherine V. Snyder
ISBN: 9780511150005
Publication Date: 1999-09-02
Handbook of Narratology by Peter Hühn (Editor); John Pier (Editor); Wolf Schmid (Editor); Jörg Schönert (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110217445
Publication Date: 2009-08-17
Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic by Julie Kipp
ISBN: 0511064934
Publication Date: 2003-01-01

Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Handbook Series brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. Articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research. The books have become one of the most successful and cited series within scholarly publishing, and for the first time, the entire collection of work across 14 subject areas is available online. In this new platform, you will now be able to benefit from improved interfaces and navigation, expanded search, integrated social media, and site tutorials and videos accessible from any page.

The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies by Robert Kolker (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195175967
Publication Date: 2008-09-08

Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new window
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Healey Library Print Collection

Books related to English can usually be found under the P Call Number. English literature is located under PR and American Literature under PS.

Search UMBrella by keyword or subject for books on your topic. If there is a specific book that you require, search UMBrella by title or author.

Books with call numbers P-PZ are located on the 9th floor of the library if the catalog location is listed as Main Stacks. Reference works are found in the Reference collection on the 4th floor.

Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to borrow books currently unavailable in Healey Library's physical or online collections.

Please stop by the 4th floor Reference desk if you need additional help.