LibGuides: ENGL 407: Nineteenth-Century American Literature: General Information

Time Period Resources

The 19th Century, 1801-1900 by John Powell
Call Number: D358 .G74 2006 V.1
ISBN: 1587652978
Publication Date: 2006-12-30
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America by Randall M. Miller (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313065361
Publication Date: 2008-12-30

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
The Oxford English Dictionary is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Useful Reference Sources

Short Story Criticism
Call Number: PN 3373.S386
ISBN: 0810325500
This source is also available full-text digitally in Literature Criticism Online.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism by Cherie D. Abbey (Editor); Janet Mullane (Editor)
Call Number: PN761.N5
ISBN: 0810358174
Publication Date: 1988
Information from this series can also be found in the database Literature Criticism Online.

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Databases for Literary Criticism

Gale Literary Sources
Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
Literary Reference Plus
Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Criticism Online sorts criticism topically, by period, and even by author depending on prominence. Also includes Poetry and Short Story criticism.
MLA International Bibliography
An EBSCO database that can be cross-referenced with other literary databases, the MLA International Bibliography is a great starting point for literary research.
JSTOR
While an interdisciplinary resource, JSTOR is great specifically for short story research.