English 22: Of Comics and Culture
Professor: Liz Muther
Librarian: Joan Campbell (
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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:
The World Encylopedia Of Cartoons / Maurice Horn, Editor, Richard Marschall, Assistant Editor. Main Ref NC1325 .W67 1980.
The World Encyclopedia Of Comics / edited By Maurice Horn. 7 vols. Main Ref folio PN6710 .W6 1999.
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:
- Comic Books Strips Etc.
Indexes/Databases for Finding Journal Articles
- Academic Search Premier 1975-
An interdisciplinary index to journal articles. Many full text.
- JSTOR 1800s-2003
Full text of scholarly journal articles from all disciplines 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 from the humanities and social sciences..
Additional Sources
See also the Research Guides to English.