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Journal Guides: English & Literature

Digital Journals

JOURNALS @ XU (Electronic Journal Locator & more!) (the Electronic Journal Locator and more!) contains all of the electronic, full-text journals in most of the library's research databases and full-text journal collections. Search for a particular journal title using title begins with, title equals (exact title) or title contains all words. Browse for a journal using the alphabetical display or search for a journal by subject category. Results provide links to the research database(s) or electronic journal collection(s) that index the journal and include the years covered. If full-text is not available, it provides links to XPLORE for print and microform holdings and to the Document Delivery/Annex Article Request Form - both are automatically populated with journal and article information. Instructions are available for accessing articles within databases and from bibliographies. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by Serials Solutions.

Browse the following digital journal subject categories:

Open Access Electronic Journals

  • Early Modern Literary Studies
    Available here are full-text articles and reviews from this online scholarly journal of English language and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  • Shakespeare Magazine Online
    Provides selected articles as well as current information about Shakespeare events, including performances, films, conferences, and lectures.
  • Shakespeare Quarterly
    Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's JOURNALS @ XU (Electronic Journal Locator & more!) (Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.
  • Shakespeare Studies
    Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's JOURNALS @ XU (Electronic Journal Locator & more!) (Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.

Print Journals

Search Print & Microform Journals in XPLORE by title if you do not see the journal you need below.

  • African American review. v.26 (1992) -  
  • American imago. v.31 (1974) -  
  • American literary history. v.1 (1989) -  
  • American literary realism, 1870-1910. v.1 (1967) -  
  • American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography. Remote Stacks v.1-40; McDonald v.41(1969/1970)-  
  • The American poetry review. Current issues retained until replaced by microfilm.  
  • American quarterly. Remote Stacks v.16-21; McDonald v.22(1970)-  
  • The American scholar. Remote Stacks v.1-38; McDonald v.39 (1969/70) -  
  • American theatre. v.2 no.6 (1985) -  
  • Anthropological linguistics. v.35 (1993) -  
  • Ariel. v.1 (1970) -  
  • Applied linguistics. v.15 (1994) -  
  • Boundary 2. v.12 (1983) -  
  • Callaloo. v.1, no.2 (Feb. 1978) -  
  • Canadian literature [microform]. (1959) - v.70 (1976); v.119 (1988) -  
  • Canadian poetry. No.55 (Fal/Win:2004) -  
  • The Charles Lamb bulletin. N.S. No.129 (Jan:2005) -  
  • The Chaucer review. v.1 (1966) -  
  • Christianity & literature. v.40 (1990/91) -  
  • CLA journal. v.13 (1969/70) -  
  • College composition and communication. v.41 (1990) -  
  • College English. Remote Stacks v.1-30; McDonald v.31 (1969/70) -  
  • Comparative drama. v.1 (1967) -  
  • Contemporary literature. v.8 (1967) -  
  • Creative nonfiction. No. 24 (2005) -  
  • Critical inquiry. v.1 (1974) -  
  • Critical review. v.16 (2005) -  
  • Critique. Remote Stacks v.1-11; McDonald v.12(1970)-v.20,no.1(1978); v.27(1985)-  
  • Diacritics. v.26 (1996) -  
  • Eighteenth-century studies. v.1 (1967) -  
  • ELH. Remote Stacks v.1-36; McDonald v.37(1970)-  
  • English education. v.31, no.2 (January 1999) -  
  • English journal. v.64 (1975) -  
  • English language notes. Remote Stacks v.1-6; McDonald v.7 (1969/70) -  
  • English literature in transition, 1880-1920. v.18 (1975) -  
  • English studies.Remote Stacks v.1-50; McDonald v.51(1970)-  
  • English world-wide. v.14 (1993) -  
  • ESQ. v.22 (1976) -  
  • Essays in criticism. Remote Stacks v.1-19; McDonald v.20 (1970) -  
  • Exemplaria. v.1 (1989) -  
  • The Explicator. v.2 (1943) -  
  • Explorations in Renaissance culture. v.20 (1994) -  
  • Extrapolation. v.19 (1977/78) -  
  • Feminist studies : FS. v.12, no.2 (Summer 1986) -  
  • Flannery O'Connor review. v.1 (2001-02) -  
  • Fourth genre : explorations in nonfiction. v.2 (2000) -  
  • Genre. v.1 (1968) -  
  • The Georgia review. v.31, no.4 (Winter 1977) -  
  • The Hudson review. Remote Stacks v.1-22;McDonald v.23-24,v.29(1976)-  
  • The Huntington Library quarterly. Remote Stacks v.33(1969)-v.48(1985); McDonald v.68 (2005) -  
  • JAC : a journal of composition theory. v.15 (1995) -  
  • James Joyce quarterly. v.40 (2003) -  
  • Journal of basic writing. v.1,no.4 (Spring/Summer 1978)-  
  • Journal of Beckett studies. v.7 (1997/1998) -  
  • The Journal of English and Germanic philology [microform]. v.5(1903)-  
  • Journal of linguistics. v.35 (1999) -  
  • Journal of modern literature. v.1 (1970) -  
  • Journal of popular culture. v.1 (1967) -  
  • The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association v.17 (1984) -  
  • Keats-Shelley journal. Remote Stacks v.18(1969)-v.28(1979); McDonald (2005) -  
  • The Kenyon review. Remote Stacks v.1-32; McDonald N.S. v.1(1979)-  
  • Language arts. v.63 (1986) -  
  • Language Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Language. v.66 (1990) -  
  • Latin American literary review. v.6,no.11(Fall/Winter 1977)-v.26(1998); v.33 (2005) -  
  • Legacy. v.15 (1998) -  
  • Linguistics and education. v.5 (1993) -  
  • The Massachusetts review. v.10 (1969) -  
  • Medium aevum. Remote Stacks v.1-38; McDonald v.39 (1970)-  
  • MELUS; Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. v.5 (1978) -  
  • The Minnesota review. no.21 (1983) -  
  • Mississippi review. v.33 (2005) -  
  • Modern drama [microform]. v.32 (1989) -  
  • Modern fiction studies. v.15 (1969/70) -  
  • The Modern language journal. Remote Stacks v.13-53; McDonald v.54 (1970) -  
  • Modern language quarterly. Remote Stacks v.1-30; McDonald v.31 (1970) -  
  • Modern philology. Remote Stacks v.44-66; McDonald v.67 (1969/70) -  
  • Mosaic. v.11 (1977) -  
  • Mystics quarterly. v.17 (1991) -  
  • New literary history. v.1-3, v.15 (1983/84) -  
  • The New Orleans review. v.16 (1989) -  
  • Nineteenth-century literature. v.41 (1986/87) -  
  • Notes and queries. Remote Stacks v.209-214; McDonald v.215(1970)-  
  • Novel; a forum on fiction. v.1 (1967) -  
  • The Oxford literary review. v.25 (2003) -  
  • Parabola. v.1 (1976) -  
  • The Paris review. v.17 (1976) -  
  • Pedagogy : critical approaches to teaching literature, language, culture, and composition. v.5 (2005)-
  • Philological quarterly. v.25 (1946) -  
  • Ploughshares. v.6 (1980) -  
  • Poetry. v.30 (1927) -  
  • Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Remote Stacks v.1-84; McDonald v.85 (1970) -  
  • Pynchon notes. Nos.50-51 (2002) -  
  • Religion & literature. v.16 (1984) -  
  • Renaissance quarterly. v.20 (1967) -  
  • Renascence. v.30 (1977/78) -  
  • Representations. v.1, no.2 (Spring 1983) -  
  • Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research. Remote Stacks v.2(1963)-v.15(1976); McDonald v.29 (2005) -  
  • Restoration: studies in English literary culture, 1660-1700. v.29 (2005) -  
  • Review of contemporary fiction. v.1 (1981) -  
  • Rhetoric Society quarterly. v.35 (2005) -  
  • River Styx. no.31 (1990) -  
  • Sagetrieb. v.6 (1987) -  
  • Salmagundi. no.31 (Fall 1975) -  
  • Science-fiction studies. v.6 (1979) -  
  • The Sewanee review. Remote Stacks v.1-77; McDonald v.78 (1970) -  
  • The Shakespeare newsletter. v.1 (1951) -  
  • Shakespeare quarterly. v.1 (1950) -  
  • Shakespeare studies. v.1 (1965) -  
  • Shenandoah. v.27 (1975/76) -  
  • The South Atlantic quarterly [microform]. v.88 (1989) -  
  • The Southern review. v.1 (1935) - v.7 (1942); n.s. v.1 (1965)-  
  • Studies in American fiction. v.1 (1973) -  
  • Studies in American humor. N.S.3:No.11 (2005) -  
  • Studies in American Jewish literature. v.2 (1982) -  
  • Studies in English literature, 1500-1900. Remote Stacks v.1-9; McDonald v.10(1970)-  
  • Studies in philology. Remote Stacks v.61-66; McDonald v.67(1970)-  
  • Studies in short fiction. v.2 (1964/65) -  
  • Studies in the literary imagination. v.1 (1968) -  
  • Studies in the novel. v.1 (1969) -  
  • TDR. v.32 (1988) -  
  • The Threepenny review. v.14 (1994) -  
  • TLS, the Times literary supplement [microform]. 1965 -  
  • To wit : official newsletter of the American Humor Studies Association. N.S. v.14:2 (Apr:2005) -  
  • Tri-quarterly / Northwestern University. v.1 (1964) -  
  • Twentieth century literature. v.1 (1955) -  
  • University of Toronto quarterly. Remote Stacks v.33-38; McDonald v.39 (1969/70) -  
  • The Victorian newsletter. no.8 (Fall 1955) -  
  • Victorian poetry. Remote Stacks v.2-7; McDonald v.8 (1970)-
  • Victorian studies. v.1 (1957/58) -  
  • Walt Whitman quarterly review. v.22:2/3 (Fal 2004 - Win 2005) -  
  • Western American literature. v.1 (1966) -
  • Women's writing : the Elizabethan to Victorian period. v.6 (1999) -  
  • Woolf studies annual. v.11 (2005) -  
  • Word : journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York. v.44 (1993) -  
  • Works and days. v.22 (2004) -  
  • World literature today. v.51 (1977) -  
  • The Writing center journal. v.25 (2005) -  
  • Xcp : cross-cultural poetics. no.4 (1999) -  
  • The Yale review. Remote Stacks v.1-58; McDonald v.59 (1969/70) -

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