Sandor Teszler Library
Course Guide for English 102
| Sandor Teszler Library Course Guide for English 102 |
Professor Ware--Spring 2008
| Ref. PN 3385 .N68 | Novels for Students. 26
volumes. Comes with an overview of the novel, discussion of the context, and usually some criticism. More importantly, many suggestions for further reading. Jane Eyre is covered here. |
| Ref. PN 50 .W675 |
World
Literature and Its Times, volume 4. British Literature and Its
Times: The Victorian Era to the Present. Takes works of British and Irish literature and analyzes them in terms of historical events which influenced them. Jane Eyre is also covered here. |
| Ref. PS 21 .M34 | Magill's
Survey of American
Literature. 2007. 6 volumes. A good, current biography of your author and a sense of what he/she was interested in and wrote. Also, it points to scholarly work for further reading. Covers Henry James. |
| Ref. PR 8706 .O88 | Oxford
Companion to Irish Literature. 1996. Doesn't cover McCabe, but does cover the literary world he works in. Lots of information on Irish culture and history as well. |
| e-book | Cambridge
Companion to Henry James. 1998. Scholarly articles on aspects of James's work and life. Good for a general sense of his interests and context. |
| e-book | Cambridge
Companion to the Brontės.
2002. Similar to the above, but for the two sisters and their major works. |
These indexes are available from the Library webpage under Research Databases, or you can search for them by name in the library catalog.
Off-campus access: use the links under Databases A to Z rather than these.
Literature Resource Center Database for literary research including biographical articles, full text literary criticism, current journal articles and links to valuable web sites. Includes full text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other print reference sources.
MLA International Bibliography An index to thousands of journals in all areas of literary research, from 1969 to the present. There are some full-text articles linked from here, but this is primarily a list of materials (books and articles) available in other sources.
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP is a largish collection of scholarly full text articles.
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest database of full text information. It covers over 6,000 magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in all areas of study. Over 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. This database should always be your first stop if you need to find an article.
InfoTrac OneFile is another extremely large database of full text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Includes more popular titles than Academic Search Premier, which is useful for popular authors, and ones who are still writing.
JSTOR does depth rather than breadth. It covers all of the best journals in the areas it covers, primarily literature and history.
Internet
Public Library Literary Criticism
Links to
scholarly pages
selected by librarians. Arranged by author, nationality, and time
period. This is a good example of a place to start a scholarly web
search.
Penguin Book Club guide to The Tortilla Curtain A brief introduction to the work and its context.
Wikipedia article on Boyle. Useful primarily because of the links to articles and interviews it provides at the end.
| In-Person Any library staff member can help you. However, reference librarians are available at the Reference Desk (just to the right as you enter the library) during the following hours:
| Phone On-campus: 4302 Off-campus: (864) 597-4302 Email
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