English Literature and Creative Writing

This is UCLan's English Literature and Creative Writing library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Faculty Librarian: Francesca Robinson

Books

Search for books and ebooks on the Library Search It will tell you what we have in stock and where to find it.
Sometimes there may only be a chapter on a specific topic rather than a whole book. To find those, you will need to use one of our ebook databases which allow you to search through the whole text of a book. We have several ebook collections but a good place to start would be ebrary.

Library Search
E-book collections
Ebook Central
JISC Historic Texts - digitised books from the late 15th to 19th century

Journals and Articles

If you have a reference for a particular journal article, or if you want to find out if we take a particular journal title, use the Journal Finder.

If the Library does not have the journal article you want, you can request a copy from the Inter-Library Loan Service.

Diffusion Journal - this is an Undergraduate Research Journal for students in Humanities and Social Sciences.

eResources and Databases

Recommended Resources for Literature & Culture:

Academic Search Complete - good general database which includes topics relating to literature and humanities more broadly.
Arts and Humanities Database
Humanities International Complete
JSTOR -contains articles on the subject of literature and the arts. Full text database which includes many historical journals and articles.
MLA - Modern Languages Association indexes worldwide for literature and folklore.
Project Muse - full text journals on topics including literature and cultural studies.
Taylor & Francis Journal Collection - multidisciplinary collection including arts and humanities.

Should you want to undertake a more thorough search for research literature, try searching the following abstract and indexing databases.

Additional Resources

E-Newspapers

Nexis Full text of over 29,000 newspapers including UK and worldwide publications.

Newspaper archives

Artemis Primary Sources - Includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection, 19th Century Periodicals, Illustrated London News Historical Archive from 1842-2003, the Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957. Also includes The Economist Historical Archive from 1843-2011, Times Digital Archive from 1785-2011, the Daily Mail Historical Archive from 1896-2004 and the Financial Times Historical Archive from 1843-2011. Use Artemis Primary Sources to search all the collections simultaneously.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer Historical Archives (1791-2000)
The Telegraph Historical Archive (1855-2000)

Television and Film

Alexander Street Video - Videos, films, documentaries and training materials in literature and culture related areas
Box of Broadcasts provides a catch up TV and radio service with no expiry dates. All freeview channels covered. You can also create clips of programmes to share with others.
Kanopy is a collection of independent films, animations and documentaries from around the world.

Ephemera

John Johnson Collection - the digitised collection of more than 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleians John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera.
Burney Newspaper Collection -Also includes pamphlets, newspapers and books collected before 1817.

Quick Links

Huge database of television going back 15 years

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