Library
English 20: Lesbian Personae
Professor: Peter Coviello
Librarian: Joan Campbell (jcampbe2@bowdoin.edu; 3285)
Spring 2008
Listed below are just some of the resources that may be useful to you in your research. Please feel free to contact me for additional help with this class or any of your other English research.
Background Information
Use these sources to find brief biographical information about your writers and brief critical information about their works. These encyclopedias can serve as great starting points for your research -- stimulating ideas to write about and listing additional sources for you to pursue. All of these are available in the Reference Collection on the main floor of the library:
Contemporary Lesbian Writers Of The United States A Bio Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Reference PS153.L46 C65 1993
Encyclopedia Of Lesbian Gay Bisexual And Transgender History In America 4 vols. Reference HQ76.3.U5 E53 2004
Gay And Lesbian Literature. Reference PN56.H57 G36 1994
Gay And Lesbian Literary Heritage A Readers Companion To The Writers And Their Works From Antiquity To The Present. Reference PN56.H57 G365 2002
Lesbian Histories And Cultures An Encyclopedia. Reference in print: HQ75.5 .L4395 2000 and online: HQ75.5 .L4395 2000 INTERNET
Literature Research Center
Provides biographical and critical overviews of writers and their works. Often there are good bibliographies of secondary sources for you to pursue.
See also the Quick Facts page for online reference sources to get quick, authoritative definitions and facts.
Secondary Sources
Library Catalogs for Books
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Search Bowdoin Library's holdings of books, videos, music, government documents,
etc.
NExpress
Search --and borrow from--the combined collections of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Williams,
Northeastern, Middlebury, and Wellesley for both books and articles. Books arrive from
Colby and Bates in two days.
- Subject Searching in Bowdoin's Library Catalog: Browse the book shelves online by connecting to a major subject section of the Library. Some examples follow:
- Lesbians in Literature
- Lesbians Writings American
- Homosexuality and Literature United States
Indexes/Databases for Finding Journal Articles
- Academic Search
Premier 1975-
Index to journals in the social sciences, humanities and science. Many full text. - JSTOR 1800s-2003
Full text of scholarly journal articles up until about 2003. - MLA International Bibliography 1963-
An index to journal articles, books, and chapters in books on literature and film. Many links to the full text of journal articles.
Project Muse 1993-
Full text of scholarly journal articles.
Additional Sources
See also the Research Guides to English and Gay and Lesbian Studies