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Subject guide for research in English literature

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Introduction to By Era page

Looking for a specific literary time period? This page is divided into different centuries. Literature prior to the 17th century literature is under Medieval & Early Modern Literature, and literature from the start of the 21st century to the present is under Modern Literature.

Medieval & Early Modern Literature

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Medieval & Early Modern Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Journal of Medieval History
  • Journal of the Wooden O Symposium
  • Medieval History Journal
  • New Chaucer Studies
  • Spenser Studies

17th Century Literature

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for 17th Century Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Early Modern Literary Studies
  • Milton Quarterly
  • Milton Studies
  • Multicultural Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare Quarterly
  • Shakespeare Studies
  • Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
     

18th Century Literature

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for 18th Century Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Early American Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Fiction
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Legacy
  • Romanticism
  • Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
  • The Eighteenth Century

19th Century Literature

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Here are some eJournal titles for 19th Century Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • ESQ
  • J19
  • Mark Twain Journal
  • Nineteenth-Century Contexts
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal
  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
  • Victorian Studies
  • The Wordsworth Circle

20th Century Literature

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for 20th Century Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Conradian
  • Hemingway Review
  • James Baldwin Review
  • James Joyce Quarterly
  • Philip Roth Studies
  • Shaw
  • Steinbeck Review
  • Tolkien Studies
  • Twentieth Century Literature
  • Woolf Studies Annual

Modern Literature

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Modern Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Mississippi Review
  • Missouri Review
  • Modern Fiction Studies
  • Notre Dame Review
  • Orbit
  • River Styx
  • The Threepenny Review