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English

Our English Department conjoins a spirit of pragmatism, creativity, and critical analysis.

Catalogs

Online Catalogs

Search the online catalogs for: print and electronic books; streaming video and audio, DVD's and government documents. The Kent Library Catalog searches our collection. The MOBIUS Catalog searches other Missouri college and university library collections and allows you to request their physical materials be shipped our campus. 

Video Databases

Streaming Video Databases

Recommended streaming video databases.

Ebook Databases

Ebook Databases

Recommended ebook databases.

Subject Headings

Subject Headings

Every book in the library has been tagged with subject headings that describe broadly what it is about. When you find one book, you can use its subject heading(s) to find books on similar topics. Clicking on a hyperlinked subject heading in a catalog record will generate a result list of all titles owned by Kent Library that have been assigned that subject heading.

Call Numbers

Call Numbers

Currently, most of Kent Library's books are organized on the shelf by the Dewey Decimal System. Kent Library is in the process of converting library materials to Library of Congress (LC) call numbers. Until this conversion is complete, collections in all subjects will be housed in both Dewey and LC, including books related to English or Literature.  As a result, books you find in the catalog may be shelved next to books on similar topics, hence, the 'serendipitous' find in the stacks. 

Listed below are call numbers for English and Literature in the LC classification scheme:

Library of Congress Call Numbers for Language & Literature (PE)

  • PE1-3729 English
  • PE101-(458) Anglo-Saxon. Old English
  • PE501-(693) Middle English
  • PE(814)-896 Early Modern English
  • PE1001-1693 Modern English
  • PE1700-3602 Dialects. Provincialisms, etc.
  • PE3701-3729 Slang. Argot, etc.

Dewey Decimal Call Numbers for English Literature 

  • 802 Miscellany about literature
  • 803 Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
  • 804 -
  • 805 Serial Publications
  • 806 Organisations
  • 807 Study & Teaching
  • 808 Rhetoric & Collections
  • 809 History, discription,critical appraisal
  • 810 English & Anglo-Saxon Literatures
  • 821 English Poetry
  • 822 English Drama
  • 823 English Fiction
  • 824 English essays
  • 825 English speeches
  • 826 English Letters
  • 827 English satire & humour
  • 828 English miscellaneous writings
  • 829 Anglo-Saxon (Old English)