Database Information

• Database title:

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

• Coverage:

  1920 - 1997 (no updates)

• Description:

  Lists "...monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world." The original printed version of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature bibliography consists of annual volumes beginning in 1920. "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.