Literature and Creative Writing

A core resource for literature students. It aims to provide biographies of all major writers and entries for their works in addition to information about the historical and cultural context of literary events. Useful features include recommended reading, a timeline of works and events, a glossary and a style guide. Note that it is being built up over time, so not all content listed is yet available.

ProQuest One Literature is a vast scholarly resource, including more than 500,000 primary texts 1,200 scholarly journals and thousands of ebooks and reference works. It also includes 1,300 video and audio recordings and the full text of 14,000 dissertations. A particular focus of One Literature is to extend beyond the Western canon to include a wide range of Black and World literary resources.

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. A core resource for literature students.

An essential and definitive reference work on the English language, tracing the meaning, history and pronunciation of 600,000 words, with 3.5 million quotations to demonstrate their usage in the past and today.

Over 60,000 biographies of significant figures who shaped British history, society and culture from Roman times to 21st century (but note it only includes people who have died).

Cambridge Companions provide scholarly authoritative guides, written by leading experts, to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. UEA has access to the full set of Companions.

Online versions of scholarly editions of key literary and historical works. UEA has purchased modules for: Medieval Poetry and Prose, Renaissance Prose, the New Oxford Shakespeare, 18th Century Poetry, Drama and Prose, Romantics Poetry, Drama and Prose.

Expert bibliographies on topics related to American Literature. Note that UEA Library may not have all the items in the bibliography, so you will need to check if we have access or request that the Library obtains it.

Expert bibliographies on topics related to British and Irish Literature. Note that UEA Library may not have all the items in the bibliography, so you will need to check if we have access or request that the Library obtains it.

Expert bibliographies on topics related to Literary and Critical Theory. Note that UEA Library may not have all the items in the bibliography, so you will need to check if we have access or request that the Library obtains it.

Expert bibliographies on topics related to the Renaissance and Reformation. Note that UEA Library may not have all the items in the bibliography, so you will need to check if we have access or request that the Library obtains it.

A cross-searchable online reference collection, featuring full-text content from over 1,000 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Contains over 3.5 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos) and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips.

A fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopaedias and other reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries with accompanying study materials that provide extra help with learning. UEA has French, Spanish and Chinese dictionaries on this site.

E-books providing current and authoritative subject coverage. Handbooks are frequently updated and offer thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study.

Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes journals in areas related to communication and mass media, such as translation. Includes links to some full-text.

A national TV and radio recording and streaming service for UK higher and further education institutions. Includes over 2 million recordings of films, documentaries, news and radio programmes from 75 channels, with the ability to request upcoming programmes and create playlists and clips.

Multi-subject collection of e-books which can be browsed, read online or downloaded to a PC. Access is also available to titles not currently owned by UEA. These may be browsed and requested for purchase by the library.

The largest collection of 17th-18th century English news media available from the British Library. Includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers, with regional and international papers covering 1600-1799.

Drawn from the British Library's collections, UEA has access to Parts 1 and 2, providing a wide range of regional newspapers from 1800-1900.

UEA has Part 1 of this series, focusing on UK periodicals relating to women, children, humour and leisure and illustrating the rise of magazine publishing in the 19th century. Drawn from the collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Australia, and National Library of South Africa.

Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. Spans last five centuries and is accompanied by many secondary learning resources including essays, maps and an interactive chronology.

Established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for documenting radio - and later, TV - programmes in print, it is the only record of many early broadcasts. It also included contributions from many major UK writers and poets.

Contains the full text of more than 2,000 plays from Greek drama to the present day, along with information about playwrights and genres. Note that we have access to most of the plays and to the National Theatre Collection productions. Further production videos are available through Digital Theatre+

Digital Theatre+ is an online platform for the performing arts. It provides unlimited access to over 600 productions along with hundreds of educational resources.

An important source for book reviews and literary essays and debates. For the latest issues, use the Exact Editions version of the TLS.

Search the full-text of the Guardian (1821-2003) and Observer (1791-2003) and view facsimile page images. For more recent articles use Gale Research Complete or Nexis and use PressReader to view the most recent issues.

Search the full-text of this important American newspaper up to 2020. For more recent articles (text only), see Gale Research Complete or Nexis - links in Newspapers Subject Guide.

Searchable text and full facsimile of the Times newspaper from 1785. Can be cross-searched with other papers via Gale Primary Sources (see separate Database A-Z entry).

Large collection of rare and hard to find comics from across the world along with journals and other supporting literature.

Provides access to ebooks and journals in the arts and humanities. UEA-owned content held on the MUSE platform can also be found via Library Search. Some content showing as not held on MUSE may be available to UEA on other platforms.

JSTOR provides searchable back issues of scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects. JSTOR does not include the last few years of most of its journals, so for recent and current issues, use the Journal A-Z or Library Search.

A yearbook detailing Shakespeare studies and productions. Published since 1948, it has published some of the the best international scholarship on Shakespeare in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

National service run by the British Library to increase visibility and access to UKs doctoral research (PhD) theses. There are more than 600,000 records with about half of these full-text, either directly available from EThOS or via links to the institution's own repository. Note that you will need to register with EThOS to download theses.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global holds details of millions of dissertations and theses from around the world. In August 2022 UEA upgraded from the abstract and index version to the full-text version (containing more than 3 million full-text)

An online referencing tool providing answers to common questions about referencing, as well as helpful guidance to keep you on the right track. Cite any information source, from ancient texts to Twitter and other online publications. Referencing styles supported are Harvard, APA, Chicago, IEEE, MHRA, MLA, OSCOLA and Vancouver. Provides videos and tutorials and includes guidance on plagiarism and how to avoid it.