InfoGuides: English Language and Literature: Find Articles

Key English Language and Literature Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the Middle Ages (450-1500) in Europe, Byzantium, and Russia; indexes journal articles and edited works (proceedings, festschriften, essay collections).
World Shakespeare Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Search over 137,000 annotated entries consisting of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2014.

PMLA
Peer-reviewed journal publishing essays of interest to those concerned with the study of language and literature, including a variety of topics and scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives.
New Literary History
Peer-reviewed journal focusing on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs.
Modern Language Quarterly
Peer-reviewed journal focusing on change, both in literary practice and within the profession of literature itself, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Journal of Commonwealth Studies
Peer-reviewed journal providing articles on the latest critical comment on all aspects of Commonwealth and postcolonial literature and related areas, such as postcolonial theory, translation studies and colonial discourse.