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English Literature & Creative Writing

This guide features Library resources for conducting research in English Literature & Creative Writing courses at San Diego City College

This page features open-access internet resources that anyone can use, related to English Lit & Creative Writing. 

Internet Resources

  • Literary Resources on the Net
    • Annotated list maintained by an English professor, it emphasized American and English literature but also includes various ethnicities and nationalities, including Latino/a literature. Included primary source materials such as original reviews and advertisements on historical novels.
  • Voice of the Shuttle

    • Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web. Includes annotated lists, including literature in English, literature other than English, and literary theory.

  • Calisphere

    • Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.

  • Free e-resources from the British Library

    • "You can find a list of freely available e-resources in this guide. These have been selected by our experts and are listed by title. This guide includes websites, full-text databases, abstracting and indexing databases and other reference sources."