Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-1997)

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Fields in This Database:
Author/Reviewer
Titles and Publishing Information
Subjects
Codes

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Database Description: The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. ABELL contains over 700,000 records in English and other European languages.

Subject areas covered by ABELL include:

• English Language - syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics and dialectology.
  
• English Literature - poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors.
  
• Bibliography - 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.

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature has existed as a printed bibliography for over 70 years. The print version consists of 77 volumes beginning in 1920 and issued annually in printed volumes.

PRODUCED BY: ProQuest Chadwyck-Healey; compiled under the auspices of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), by an international team of editors, contributors and academic advisors.
DATES COVERED: 1920-1997.
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Fields in This Database

AUTHOR/REVIEWER

AUTHORS (.AU.): AU encompasses primary text authors, authors of reviews, authors of essays within collections or festschriften, and other people responsible for a work, such as editors, translators, and authors of introductions. Searching AU retrieves all kinds of author names, except for author being reviewed (AUTR).

Names are given in inverted order, last name first, followed by first and middle names or initials. All words are indexed. If you are unsure how the name is given, begin searching by surname only. For hyphenated surnames, use either surname or both.

PRIMARY TEXT AUTHOR (.AUTH.): Author or scholar associated with a primary text.

REVIEW AUTHOR (.RVAU.): Reviewer.

SOURCE AUTHOR (.SOAU.): Author of collection in which an essay appears. Searching an author name in SOAU finds the separate records for individual essays in the collection.

AUTHOR REVIEWED (.AUTR.): Original author of an item being reviewed. Searching by AUTR retrieves only reviews about (not primary texts by) this author.

TITLES AND PUBLISHING INFORMATION

TITLE (.TI.): Title of journal article, book, collection, essay, or dissertation.

TITLE REVIEWED (.TITR.): Title of book being reviewed.

JOURNAL TITLE (.JN.): Journal in which article or review appeared.

SOURCE TITLE (.SOTI.): Collection in which an essay appeared. Searching a collection title in SOTI finds the separate records for individual essays in the collection.

PUBLISHING INFORMATION (.PUB.): For books and collections, PUB contains the publisher, place, and date. For dissertations, PUB names the university and date of degree. For journal articles and reviews, PUB contains the journal title, volume, date, and pagination. Omit stopwords when searching PUB.

YEAR (.YR.): For all types of material, YR provides the year of publication.

CONTENTS (.CON.): For festschriften and other collections, CON contains details of the contents, such as the author and title of each individual essay. Searching an essay title in CON finds the collection in which the essay is published. Searching an author name in CON finds collection(s) in which the author is published.

SUBJECTS

SUBJECTS (.SU.): Index terms assigned by the database producer to describe the subject content of the document. Subjects in ABELL consist of a structured hierarchy that may incorporate a broad subject area, time period, treatment, specific author, etc. Examples:

English Literature: Nineteenth Century: Authors: Dickens, Charles

English Literature: Sixteenth Century: Authors: Shakespeare, William: General Scholarship and Criticism

English Literature: Twentieth Century: General Literary Studies

English Literature: Middle English and Fifteenth Century: General and Anonymous: General Literary Studies, Editions and Studies of Anonymous Writings

Bibliography: Manuscripts

English Language: Grammar: Syntax of Contemporary English

English Language: Phonetics and Phonology: General

CODES

ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.

RECORD TYPE (.RT.): The type of publication:

Primary (original article, book, collection, essay, or dissertation)
Review (book review)

February 2003

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