ENG227.LiteratureAmericaII.Teel

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



This guide is designed to help you research Literature 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: "Morrison and literary criticism", example 2. "Tar Baby 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 "Toni Morrison"

When searching for a topic or subject that the writer covers in their book, use exact terms such as "civil rights" or "racism". This also applies to searching for types of writings such as "realism" or "modernism".

Books
__The Cambridge Companion to John Updike__: PS3571.P4 Z586 2006

__Canons by Consensus: critical trends and American literature anthologies__: PS25 .C78 2004

__Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston and Dorthy West__: PS153.N5 J68 2002

Reference Books
__American Writers; a collection of literary biographies__, New York, Scribner, 1974. Ref. PS129 .A55 __Guide to American literature from its beginnings through Walt Whitman__, New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. Ref. PS92 .C33 __Modern American Literature__, New York : F.Unger, [1969-1976]. PS221 .C8 1969 __The Oxford Companion to American Literature__, New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. Ref. PS21 .H3 1995 __Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature__, New York, NY : Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Ref. PS21 .B46 1991 __Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature__, New York : Continuum, 2000. Ref. PS21 .E53 2000 __Encyclopedia of African American Literature__, New York : Facts On File, 2007. Ref. PS153.N5 E48 2007 __African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000__, New York : Twayne, 1999. Ref. PS153 .N5 A33 1999 __Critical Companion to Toni Morrison: a literary reference to her life and work__, New York : Facts On File, 2008. Ref. PS3563.O8749 Z653 2008
 * General**
 * Encyclopedias**
 * Literary Criticism**

=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 including literary criticism. [|Tutorial]

=Web sites= There are some good literature 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, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Altavista]
 * [|Google]

Web sites

 * [|American Literature 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.
 * [|Voices of the Shuttle: American Literature]

=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.
 * Looking for books? Search our [|Online Catalog].
 * 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 02/24/09 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu Updated on 12/21/09