English150W: Wordsworth and Coleridge

• Library Catalog
• Databases
• Print Resources

Library Catalog

• Take advantage of detailed subject subdivisions for major authors.  Among the most promising:
• -- Bibliography
• -- Biography
• -- Correspondence
• -- Criticism and interpretation
• -- Indexes
• -- Knowledge
• -- Political and social views
• -- Sources
• Watch for alternative promising subjects:
• English Literature--19th Century--History and criticism
• English Poetry-- 19th Century--History and criticism
• Pastoral Poetry--English
• Poets, English
• Romanticism--Great Britain
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Databases

• Academic Search Complete
  Coverage of articles in academic journals in all disciplines including literature and language up to current issues but not full backfiles.
• Humanities International Complete
• Covers articles on literature and other humanities areas in over 1,000 academic journals.
• JSTOR
  Coverage of academic journals in all disciplines including literature and language back to first issues, but watch out for moving wal,l which eliminates most recent few years.
• Literature Criticism Online
  Provides excerpts from commentaries on works of major writers and bibliographies of further reading suggestions at end of articles. Also allows approach by topics.
• Literature Resource Center
  Biographies, bibliographies, and criitical analyses of more than 120,000 authors. 
• MLA International Bibliography
  Leading annual bibliography in the field. Indexes books and articles on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.  Limited to critical writings by American scholars before the mid 1950s and no subject indexing before 1981.
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile
  Indexes books, periodicals, and some U.S. and British government documents. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Standard source for biographies of notable English individuals.
• Oxford Reference Online
• Online access to a host of Oxford Companions and other handbooks.
• Times Digital Archive
• Offers Times of London coverage from 1785-1985 but not the Sunday Times.
• Voice of the Shuttle
• A free academic site which offers a range of resources for study of romantic-era literature.From the University of California at Santa Barbara

Print Resources

• ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature  Z2011 .M69 Stacks
  Best annual bibliography for scholarship on British writers prior to 1956. Swem has volumes for 1923-2006.
• Baker, Nancy, and Nancy Huling. A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature.  6th ed. 2006. Ref PR56 .B34 2006
• Offers quick help with all steps of the research process.
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• Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.  3rd ed. 1999. Ref PR83 .A1 C3 1999.
• Vol. 4 covers the period 1800-1900.
• Harmon, William.  A Handbook to Literature.  10th ed. 2006  Ref PN41 .H355 2006
• Covers authors, movements, genres and more in concise format.
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• New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.  1993.  Ref PN1021 .N39 1993
• For help with poetic terms and concepts.
• Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832.  1999. Ref PR447 R64 1999
• First part has essays on aspects of British life and society during the period.  Second part has short entries on authors and concepts.

Alan Zoellner

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