Project MUSE® has recently acquired the journal Studies in American Jewish Literature (SAJL). This is the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Jewish Literature. It publishes peer reviewed articles, book reviews, poetry and short stories dealing with all aspects of the Jewish experience in literature. Take a look at the Tables of Contents for the latest issue.
Access to the full text is available through Portia in the usual way.
The Library is now stamping standard loan books over the summer period. However some courses continue beyond the end of the semester and so reservations remain effective for the time being. Therefore books are subject to being recalled until the end of June.
Did you know that the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection is regularly updated. Recent updates of interest to English students would be the addition of:
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain 3rd ed., and
Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage 2nd ed.
In all, this database has 19 authoritative reference books on Literature alone, including:
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, and
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
It also includes reference sources for Mythology and Folklore in addition to numerous Dictionaries and Thesauri and so is a very useful database to keep open while you carry out online research or draft essays.
Access to Oxford Reference Online is available through Portia in the usual way.
Do take a look at this week’s Chichester Observer (published 9th April) to see an article on the University Archives. The feature titled ‘Take a journey back in time and you’ll be captivated for hours’ highlights the Education collections, but the archive is also rich in material concerning Local History, Theology and English.
Canon Dr Anthony Cane is giving a series of lectures at the Cathedral at 6.30pm on four Tuesday evenings: 28 April, 5, 12 and 19 May, followed by questions and discussion in the Vicar’s Hall at 6.30pm Tuesday 2 June. The lectures will explore the impact of the Christian imagination on Western culture, using Milton’s Paradise Lost as a key text which has influenced the writings of both Lewis and Pullman.
See more at the official website The Chancellor’s Lectures.
The ITV programme J. K. Rowling – A Year in the Life, is now available for viewing at the Library (823.91 ROW).
Also note that the book, Re-reading Harry Potter – S. Gupta is now available on the Dawsonera e-book database. Access to Dawsonera is through Portia in the usual way. Please see the English Subject Librarian if you need any help.
We now have full-text access to the Burney Collection of newspapers and news pamphlets collected by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) which represents the largest single collection of 17th & 18th Century English news media. With over a million newspaper pages this is a valuable addition to the Library’s Electronic Resources.
Access to the database is through Portia in the usual way (under the link to 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection) and the full list of over 1,200 titles which are included can be viewed by clicking the link to Title List within the database.
Please note this book can now be found on the Ebrary e-book database:
The ivory tower and Harry Potter – ed. by Lana A. Whited
The following book has been ordered from the Dawsonera e-book database and should be available shortly. Keep checking back with the blog and I will let you know as soon as it is accessible.
Re-reading Harry Potter – S. Gupta
Both Ebrary and Dawsonera can be accessed through Portia in the usual way.
JSTOR has completed the initial release of over 8,300 significant British pamphlets from the 19th Century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets represented an important means of public debate on social, political and technological issues of the day.
The currently available pamphlets include:
Cowen Tracts 1603-1898
Hume Tracts 1769-1890
Knowsley Pamphlet Collection 1792-1868
The pamphlets can be viewed individually by following the link to Browse- by Title, or you can limit your search results to the pamphlets alone by using the Advanced Search features.
The digitisation project aims to release additional material over the next few months. Access to JSTOR is available through Portia in the usual way.
Did you know that Project MUSE® has over 130 full-text journals in Literature. See the literature list here or click here for the complete journal listings. Project MUSE® can be accessed in the usual way from Portia. If you have any trouble linking to the full-text off campus, then have a word with the English Subject Librarian.
London Review of Books