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Database information for ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)

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• Coverage: 1920-current
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• Library of Congress Clasification: pr-ps
• Short Description:
  Index of monographs, articles, reviews, essays, and dissertations about English language and literature published anywhere in the world from 1920 to present.
• Annotation:
  Consists of 77 volumes beginning in 1920 and issued annually in printed volumes. 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