Black/white photograph of poet Emily Dickinson

Created by William C. North, between December 10, 1846 and late March 1847 (source: Mary Elizabeth Kromer Bernhard, "Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson’s Unknown Daguerreotypist," The New England Quarterly 72:4 (December 1999), pp. 594-601;

Source of this image: Wikipedia, creative commons

 

Introduction Dewey Call Numbers Reference Resources Databases:   Websites SEARCH  ENGINES:

 

 

Introduction

This pathfinder will, I hope, be a big help to you as you search for materials to use in your paper.

While it should help with the bulk of your research, it's not exhaustive by any means, so be sure to ask if you need help finding other materials. 

 

 

 

Dewey Call Numbers

Literary criticism makes up the bulk of the 800 section, so use the OPAC (card catalogue) to search for books in the collection, or browse the shelves. Specifically, theorical material is in the 800's, American Lit the 810-819's and British Lit the 820-829's, in alphabetical order by writer. In the online catalog, if there is a green box by the title, that means it should be in the library; however, many books have "disappeared" over the years. If it's not on the shelf, it's probably gone. We do have access to Interlibrary Loan, however, which means we can order books from anywhere in CT and they'll be delivered to you here at school.

 

Reference

We have a solid set of reference materials for literature, so I won't list them all here. However, the most useful sets will probably be

Poetry Criticism

Short Story Criticism

American Writers

British Writers

 

 

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Resources

 

Databases:  

From home you will need the password. Get the bookmark from the library, or look in the Library Forum in First Class.

 

These databases contain articles from several hundreds of journals, not all of them literary.  Be sure to do an ADVANCED search, and click on "full text" articles. Otherwise you'll also receive abstracts, which can be very frustrating!

 

 JSTOR 

 

Academic One File

 

Expanded Academic

 

Bloom's Literary Criticism (you'll also need the password from school)

 

 

Websites

 

Criticism

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory

Literary History.com:  Open access articles on literary criticism

Literary Criticism:  Extensive collection of online articles from the Internet Public Library

Classic Criticism/British Lit:  Collection of links to the classic critics--Pope, Dryden, Coleridge, etc.

 

 

Literature Sites

 

SEARCH  ENGINES:

Google is NOT  the best search engine for this paper.  It's far to general in its results.  Try one of the search engines below.

 

INFOMINE: Click on the "SocSci&Humanities" link.

GoogleScholar

Intute:  Searches scholarly websites