English 277: Empire of Feeling

Professor: Peter Coviello
Librarian: Joan Campbell ( )
Spring 2008

Background Information

Use these sources to find brief information about your author or a particular work or genre or time period. Get ideas for paper topics and a quick list of additional sources that might be useful to you. These are just a sample of sources which may be of use. All of these are available in the reference collection on the main floor:

Critical Companion To Nathaniel Hawthorne A Literary Reference To His Life And Work. Ref PS 1881 W75

Harriet Beecher Stowe A Reference Guide . Ref Z 8849.4

Henry James Encyclopedia. Ref PS 2122 G35 1989.

Herman Melville A To Z The Essential Reference To His Life And Work. Ref PS 2386 A24 2001.

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia. Ref PS 1880 G3 1991.

Oxford Encyclopedia Of American Literature. 4 vols. Ref PS21 .E537 2004

Writers Of The American Renaissance An A To Z Guide. Ref PS 201 W75

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:

Indexes/Databases for Finding Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier 1970s- Index to journals in the social sciences, humanities and science. Many full text.
American Periodicals Series Full text of scholarly journals and popular magazines from 1794-1900.
JSTOR 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.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of scholarly journals and popular magazines from the 1600s-2000.

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