ENG227LIT_in_America

=ENG 227: Literature in America II=
 * Professor Nancy Teel**



This guide is designed to help you research writers in America topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * William Hoag: Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes Boston Public Library)]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase
Use specific title or author when searching, example 1: "Ellison and literary criticism", example 2. "Modernism and literary criticism". We have whole books in our collection dedicated to literary criticism of specific authors or books. You can also use a subject search such as "Ralph Ellison"

American History Authors
 * American history
 * Civil war
 * Realism in literature
 * WWI
 * Harlem Renaissance
 * Great Depression
 * WWII
 * Modernism
 * Postmodernism
 * Mark Twain
 * Charles W. Chesnutt
 * Stephen Crane
 * Jack London
 * Booker T. Washington
 * W.E.B. Du Bois
 * Robert Frost
 * Carl Sandburg
 * Langston Hughes
 * Zora Neale Hurston
 * F.Scott Fitzgerald
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Richard Wright
 * Ralph Ellison
 * Arthur Miller
 * James Baldwin
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * John Updike
 * Audre Lorde
 * Alice Walker

Books
//Deans and Truants : race and realism in African American literature //. PS153.N5 J395 2007

//Rereading the Harlem Renaissance : race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West.// PS153.N5 J68 2002

//Richard Wright//. PS3545.R815Z814 2009

//The Cambridge Companion to John Updike//. PS3571.P4 Z586 200

Reference Books
American Writers; a Collection of Literary Biographies. REF. PS129 .A55 //Icons of African American literature : the Black literary world. //REF. PS153.N5 I35 2011 //The Oxford Companion to American Literature.// REF. PS21 .H3 1995 //Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature//. REF. PS21 .B46 1991 //Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature.// REF. PS21 .E53 2000 //Encyclopedia of African American Literature//. REF. PS153.N5 E48 2007
 * General**
 * Encyclopedias**

We have many reference books on individual modern writers. Use catalog to find. //African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000.// REF. PS153 .N5 A33 1999
 * Literary Criticism**

E-Books
[|Ebrary] The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles about American literature
 * Use the databases to find articles about American writers

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This is the best place to start. [|Tutorial]

Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
CLC is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.

Biography Resource Center
This database contains more than 400,000 biographies on nearly 275,000 people gathered from over 90 reference sources. Good place to find information about authors.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study. [|Tutorial]

American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. Includes timelines, biographies, primary sources and audio/video files

African American Experience
The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture.

=Streaming Video=

Films on Demand

My Jack London: A Daughter Remembers (25:00)

Harlem Voices: The Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay (30:00)

Ernest Hemingway: A Concise Biography (34:00)



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John Updike: A&P (31:00)======



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Moyers & Company: Rita Dove—Decoding the Language of Poetry (30:00)======

=Web sites= There are many good American writers web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Google]

General

 * American Authors on the WEB Nice directory of resources.
 * Bedford Anthology of American Literature: Text book website.
 * Gilder Lehrman Institue of American History
 * Literary Resources on the Net: Another very nice directory of resources.
 * [|PAL: Perspectives in American literature:] Great place to start to find out information on authors works.

Selected Authors

 * Mark Twain
 * Booker T. Washington
 * W.E.B. Du Bois
 * Langston Hughes
 * Zora Neale Hurston
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Ralph Ellison
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * John Updike
 * Rita Dove

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__[|APA Style Tutorial]__ [|Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited] [|Laguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation style] [|The Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide] [|The Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide]

=Basic Research Help= Please click the Ask a Librarian icon if you have any questions concerning these guides, need help finding material for your research or any general questions you might have.
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 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
 * Can't find what you are looking for? Use our [|InterLibrary Loan Form].

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Research guide prepared on 10/3/13 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu