Ellis Library Sourcepack for English 4240/7240
Restoration and 18th Century English Literature
Instructor: Devoney Looser
Librarian: Anne Barker
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Background Information & Quick Reference Tools Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Ref. B802.E53 2003 A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain DA 480.C58 2002 Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain 1780s-1830s DA529.E53 1992 Encyclopedia of the Novel Ref. PN41.E53 1998 (From LION: Literature Online.) Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.) Feminist Companion to Literature in English Ref. PN471.F45 1990 Oxford Companion to English Literature Ref. PR19.O94 2000 Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English  (Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.) An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers Ref. PR111.E54 1998 Dictionary of Biblical Allusions in English Literature Ref. PR145.F8 Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry Ref. PR508.C68 S63 1984 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 The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles Ref. PR851.E52 2000 An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age : British culture, 1776-1832 PR447 .R64 1999 |
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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.  |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Ref. DA28 .O95 2004 Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref. PN451.D43   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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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.   You may also want to try databases that focus on other disciplines or types of publications: |
| Print bibliographies provide an overview of scholarly work. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed. Ref. PR83.N45 1999 New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Ref. Z2011.N45 Year's Work in English Studies 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) |
| 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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Primary Sources and Guides to Primary Sources |
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LION: Literature Online provides online texts of many English and American literary works with a search mechanism to facilitate text analysis. ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides the full text of works published in England in the 18th century. The American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900) contains the full text of journals and magazines published in the American colonies and United States, 1740-1900. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index 19th Century Masterfile (1802-1906) Early American Imprints, Series I  contains the full text of books published in America 1639-1800. The Google Books project indexes thousands of books and allows viewing of books that are in the public domain, including most books published prior to 1925. Through MERLIN, using the advanced search option limit by date include in your search s: sources  include in your search s: sources and nth cent* e.g., s: sources and 16th cent* and marriage include in your search s: early works and nth cent* e.g., s: early works and 16th cent* and marriage include in your search s: personal narratives MERLIN lists not only printed books, but also links to electronic books, and many items contained in large microfilm collections. Microforms and the equipment needed to view, print, or scan the materials are found in Special Collections. See the guide to the Microform Collection for detailed information on the microfilm sets, including some that are not analyzed in the MERLIN Catalog. The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists works of all sorts published prior to 1800 in English, many of which we have on microfilm. The MERLIN Catalog includes records for the titles held by MU and we can borrow others through ILL@MU. The Index to English Literary Periodicals indexes articles published in early English journals and magazines contained in the microfilm set English Literary Periodicals 1681-1914 For visual resources, try the British Library Images Online. Use the advanced search option and put the century in the "production details" box. Google Images can also be useful, although not as precise. |
| Collections of Internet Resources Literary Resources on the Net |
| 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. |
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Guides to Research James L. Harner. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies (Ref. PR83.H34 2000) |
| Michael J. Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. (Ref. PR56.M37 1990) |
| James K. Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature (Ref. Z2011.B74 1998) |
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