Recommended resources for English Language and Literature
Licensed resources
Licensed resources for MU
Make sure to use the following resources via the university network or with remote access enabled.
Dictionaries and encyclopaediae
Oxford English Dictionary
An online version of a monolingual dictionary mapping the development of the English language.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
A reviewed and regularly updated online encyclopaedia.
Full text databases
ProQuest Language & Literature
An extensive source of articles from academic journals covering topics in English language, American and world literature, and linguistics.
Sage Journals
Articles from academic journals on linguistic topics, book reviews and essays.
Literature Online (LION)
Full texts of English and American literature, encyclopaedic information about authors and literary movements, handbooks and reviews.
De Gruyter
Offers free access to a large number of journals and chapters dealing with topics of linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, history and culture.
JSTOR
Academic journals (over 2,000 titles), books and other primary sources.
You can also use the comprehensive Discovery search service, which searches a large part of the university’s purchased resources.
Newspapers and journals
PressReader
Current issues of journals and newspapers (3 months archive) from around the world, e.g. The Guardian or The Washington Post. Available also as a mobile app.
The Times Digital Archive 1785–2014
Online archive of London-based The Times, also captures the graphic design of newspapers and allows full text searches.
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902–2014
An archive of digital versions of the literary supplement to London-based The Times.
Freely available resources
Freely available resources
Oxford Text Archive
An archive of full-text resources in the field of language and linguistics, structured by focus, period or collection; partially freely available, it is possible to log in using a Masaryk University account.
Virgo
University of Virginia Library catalogue, containing full texts of English literature with the possibility of searching by author or title.
University of Oxford’s Podcasts
Podcast series from the University of Oxford on topics ranging from language and linguistics to specific literary works by world-renowned authors.
Literary History
Biografie a literární kritiky k autorům 19. a 20. století a jejich tvorbě.
Early Modern Literary Studies
Biographies and literary criticism of 19th and 20th century authors and their work.
Internet Archive
The digital library offers free access to a range of textual and audiovisual materials, including approximately 28 million of books and texts.
British studies
British studies
British Council Literature
Profiles of British and the most important living Commonwealth authors, which are composed of biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews and information about the awards received.
Discovering Literature
An overview of artistic directions on the British Library website; here you will find high-quality images, texts by experts, artists or journalists, as well as short documentaries or teaching resources.
Great Writers Inspire
The University of Oxford offers a collection of video, audio and text resources for selected authors and historical periods; together they can be searched in the Library tab.
The Bodleian First Folio
A digital version of Shakespeare’s First Folio; is available in its original form of scanned images or as a text transcript in a downloadable PDF.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive
An archive of handwritten original texts and their digital transcription, three authors are included: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin.
The Victorian Web
A signpost with links for accessing e-books, texts, articles, information about authors, social and political history, and other topics related to the Victorian era.
Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
An archive of Samuel Beckett's manuscripts that contains scanned manuscripts as well as a text transcript that allows full-text search. Licensed resource, outside the university network, use remote access.
American studies
American studies
Common Place
A journal containing articles on early American life, American culture, and history.
Making of America
A selection of American historical journals, monographs and war documents.
Library of America
A non-profit organization providing free access to informative interviews and information about authors.
Hypertexts
Freely available works in digital form from well-known and lesser-known American authors.
Documenting the American South
The initiative offers access to text, image and audio files related to South American culture, history and literature. DocSouth currently includes 16 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artefacts, letters and songs.
Electronic Texts in American Studies Libraries at University of Nebraska – Lincoln
A digital library of documents, primary texts, and literature related to US history and culture.
Resource guides
American Literature Sites
Signpost for freely available and licensed resources on American literature.
American Studies
Electronic texts dealing with American studies; the site contains links to general and thematic pages, popular magazines and scholarly journals or series.
Black Past
A resource guide on African American culture and history, provided by the BlackPast.org non-profit organization.
Columbia University Libraries
A resource guide on African American culture and history, provided by Columbia University.
This guide was created in cooperation with the Department of English and American Studies.
Materials were prepared by Júlia Činčuráková; the guide is maintained and updated by Mgr. et Mgr. Lucie Tomaňová.
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