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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

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Description: ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world. Subject areas covered by ABELL include:

  • English language – including syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics and dialectology.
  • English literature – including poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors.
  • Bibliography – including manuscript studies, textual studies and the history of publishing
  • Traditional culture of the English-speaking world including custom, belief, narrative, song, dance and material culture.
ABELL is compiled under the auspices of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) by an international team of editors, contributors and academic advisors.

List of LC holdings for other editions of this title.

Coverage: 1920 - Present

Subject(s)
Literature & Language
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