Ellis Library Sourcepack for English 398
Education and the 18th Century Novel
Instructor: Prof. George Justice
Librarian: Anne Barker
| Background Information & Quick Reference Tools Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Ref. B802.E53 2003 Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain 1780s-1830s DA529.E53 1992 Encyclopedia of the Novel Ref. PN41.E53 1998 Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Ref. PN43.B65 1999 Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Ref. PN43.O94 2000 Feminist Companion to Literature in English Ref. PN471.F45 1990 Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Ref. PN1021.N39 1993 Oxford Companion to English Literature Ref. Alcove 9, PR19.O94 2000 Dictionary of Biblical Allusions in English Literature Ref. PR145.F8 English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740 (Oxford History of English Literature, vol. 7) PR445.D6 The Mid-Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of English Literature, vol. 8) PR 441.B83 1979 English Literature, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of English Literature, vol. 9) PR447.R4 1963 Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry Ref. PR508.C68 S63 1984 The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles Ref. PR851.E52 2000 |
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Biographical Sources |
| Basic biographical information can be found in the following sources. For more detailed biographies, use the MERLIN catalog to do a subject search on your person's name, putting last name first. Scroll down the resulting list of subject headings to find biographies. |
| LION: Literature Online Click on "Find Authors" and type in your author's name, last name first. |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref. Alcove 9. Use the Literary Index or check the index in the last volume of this series to see which volume contains information on your author. The DLB also gives nice lists of the authors' works. |
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Locating Primary Sources Search MERLIN by exact title or author, if known. |
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The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists works published prior to 1800 in English, many of which we have on microfilm. The ESTC is available only in the Reference area. The Index to English Literary Periodicals indexes articles published in early English journals and magazines. We have all of these on microfilm. The American Periodical Series Online provides access to the full text of articles published in American journals and magazines, 1741-1900. LION: Literature Online provides the full text of literary works. |
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Criticism |
| Criticism may be published in books or as articles in journals. |
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Use the MERLIN and MOBIUS catalogs to locate books of criticism about an author or topic. |
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Finding criticism in journal articles is usually a two step process. |
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The major literary databases are:
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Although the MLA and ABELL specialize in literature, both suffer from a delay in publishing.
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| Print bibliographies provide an overview of scholarly work. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed. Ref. Alcove 9 PR83.N45 1999 New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Ref. Alcove 9 Z2011.N45 Year's Work in English Studies Seminar Room 202J PE58.E6 Eighteenth-Century Studies PR441.E33 (1967-2001 in print; 1967- available electronically) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture CB411.S8 Studies in English Literature PR1.S74 (1961-2000 in print; 1999- available electronically) |
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A Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literature (Ref. PN695.W67 1995) lists many additional specialized bibliographies. |
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To locate older critical materials, use the following databases and reference tools. |
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Alternative and minority publications are not always well represented in the major databases. Use these indexes to hear these voices. |
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Electronic Literary Texts |
| LION: Literature Online provides online texts of many English and American literary works with a search mechanism to facilitate text analysis. From the main LION menu, choose Search Texts to search for words and phrases within a specific work or group of works. The advanced search feature allows you to define a corpus by period, literary movement, author's gender or ethnicity, and other criteria. |
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| Project Gutenberg |
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Collections of Internet Resources |
| Voice of the Shuttle |
| LION: Literature Online contains a database of literary web sites. From the main LION menu, choose Search Criticism and Reference, then WWW. |
| The Internet Public Library |
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Guides to Research James L. Harner. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies (Ref. Alcove 9, PR83.H34 2000) |
| Michael J. Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. (Ref. Alcove 9, PR56.M37 1990) |
| James K. Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature (Ref. Alcove 9, Z2011.B74 1998) |
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Citation Guides MLA style manuals are available on Index Table 11 in Ellis' Reference area in 1 South. |
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