Routledge ABES

Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies is a selective bibliography that provides a guide to the most significant material published in the field of literary studies each year.

Records are categorised into literary periods, each overseen by an editor who is an expert in that field. Each editor manages a team of specialist contributors.

Every entry contains full bibliographic details, keywords and a detailed annotation with critical comments.

Routledge ABES is an authoritative guide to the "must-have" material and is an indispensable tool for any English Department and university library.

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The Routledge ABES Fund

Routledge is also proud to announce the foundation of the Routledge ABES Fund. In recognising the enormous contribution of literary studies scholars to the creation of Routledge ABES, the fund aims to support the literary studies community through grants towards conference travel and other awards.

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We're delighted to announce that Faye Tudor of the Renassiance and Early Modern Section has been randomly selected as the winner of the Routledge ABES Contributor Profile Competition. Congratulations to Faye and thank you to all of our contributors who entered the competition.

Please feel free to take a look at the many new profiles and see who else is contributing to Routledge ABES.

What's New?

ABES is updated every seven days with the latest scholarly resources in English Studies. Recently added records include:

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Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

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Features of ABES

  • Receive weekly content updates via RSS Feed
  • Over 20,000 existing records
  • 5,000 new records added each year
  • Expert subject editors overseeing each literary period
  • Annotations completed by key researchers in the area
  • Powerful and focussed searching, including carefully selected keywords for each entry
  • Active reference linking to listed content through CrossRef

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