FINDING
ARTICLES
Use online
databases to identify articles on your topic.
MLA
Bibliography: Language and literature.
A
database that gives citations for journal articles in the
fields of folklore, literature and language.
Literature
Online -- LION:
"A
fully searchable library of more than 290,000 works of English
and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies
and key secondary sources."
Project
Muse: Scholarly journals online:
Provides access to full text scholarly journals
online in a variety of disciplines including the arts, humanities,
social sciences, mathematics. In general expect to find the more
current journals from 1996 to the present.
Oxford English Dictionary:
The OED is a comprehensive record of the English language and
generally regarded as its definitive dictionary. The OED is a
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. The OED is considered
the starting point for all scholarly work regarding words in
English.
Oxford Reference Online: Multidisciplinary
database of approximately 100 dictionaries, handbooks and other
reference books published by Oxford University Press. Check for
included titles by
broad subject area.
Humanities
Index:
Citations
to 500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology,
classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music,
linguistics, literature, and religion. Provides article citations
to the major
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index:
Citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information
gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases may be searched
by: topic, author, publication journal, author address, cited author, cited
work, or cited year.
FINDING
JOURNALS
Journals are shelved by call number.
To find the call number for a journal go to online catalog: http://vikat.pdx.edu/.
Then:
FINDING
BOOKS
To find critical works about authors
try the following tutorial:
Go to library catalog
and choose the SUBJECT field.
(Click on SUBJECT to
continue tutorial).
Some books of interest:
Wordsworth's Biblical
ghosts / Deeanne Westbrook. PR5892 .R4 W47 2001
Creature and creator : myth-making and
English romanticism / Paul A. Cantor. PR468
.C73 C36 1984
Keats's Paradise lost / Beth Lau.
PR3562
.K34 1998
A Milton encyclopedia / edited by
William B. Hunter, Jr., general editor, John T. Shawcross and John
M. Steadman, co-editors, Purvis E. Boyette and Leonard Nathanson, associate
editors.PR3580
.M5 vol. 1-9
Milton, the metaphysicals,
and romanticism / edited by
Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. PR590
.M55 1994
Milton's
poetry of choice and its romantic heirs by Leslie Brisman PR3588 .B7
Poetry and repression : revisionism from Blake to Stevens /
Harold Bloom. PR457
.B48
FINDING BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review Digest (1906-present)
Z1219 .C95 | 2nd Floor (Index Table)
Indexes and excerpts book reviews published in popular magazines and
newspapers. Entries in the main index are arranged by author of book.
A subject and title index follows, arranged in one alphabetical sequence.
Book Review Index (1965-present)
Z1035.A1 B6 | 2nd Floor (Index Table)
Indexes book reviews from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers
in many disciplines. Entries are arranged by author of book or by title
when there is no primary author. A title index follows the main index.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals,
1802-1974
Z1035 .A1 C65 | 2nd Floor
A source for retrospective book reviews in the humanities, citing over half
a million reviews, book notes and book briefs. There are nine author volumes
and one title volume. Author volumes are arranged alphabetically by the author's
last name. The title index volume is arranged alphabetically by the first significant
word in the title, and refers the user back to the main author index for the
complete citation.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals,
1886-1974
Z1035 .A1 C64 | 2nd Floor
A source for retrospective book reviews in history, political science and sociology,
citing over a million reviews. There are twelve author volumes and three title
volumes. Author volumes are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
The title index volumes are arranged alphabetically by the first significant
word in the title, and refer the user back to the main auth
REFERENCE
RESOURCES
Literature Criticism from 1400-1800-- Reference
PN86 .L53
Nineteenth-century literature criticism.
Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1981- . PSU Reference PN761 .N5
Oxford Reference Online:
Multidisciplinary database of approximately 100 dictionaries, handbooks
and other reference books published by Oxford University Press. Check
for included titles by
broad subject area. Oxford
Reference Online
WEB SITES
Romantic Circles:
a Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Selected by the NEH, the MCI Foundation, and the Council for Great
City Schools as one of the 21 best sites on the Internet for education
in the humanities. http://www.rc.umd.edu/
The Milton L homepage. Devoted to the Life, Times and Literature of
John Milton. http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/
