Use the resources below to find information on the topic of American Literature. The books, videos, CD-ROMS and periodicals are located in the MWCC Library. The web resources are available from any location with Internet access. The MWCC databases are available directly at the library, and remotely with a valid MWCC Library barcode number - if you are not sure of your number, please ask for assistance at the Circulation Desk.
Books | How to search for books
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Internet Resources
Reference Books
Poetry for students
Ref. PN1101 .P756 v.1-21
Critical survey of poetry
Ref. PN1021 .C7 2003 v.1-8
Masterplots II: poetry series
Ref. PN1110.5 .M37 2002 v.1-8
Masterplots II: short story series
Ref PN3326 .M27 2004 v.1-8
Novels for students
Ref. PN3365 .N68 v.1-18
Critical survey of short fiction
Ref. PN3373 .C7 1981 v.1-7 and 2001 v.1-7
Short stories for students
Ref. PN3373 .S3844 v.1-18
Short story criticism
Ref. PN3373 .S386 v.1-72
The Oxford companion to American literature
Ref. PS21 .H3 1983
American authors, 1600-1900: a biographical dictionary of American literature
Ref. PS21 .K8 1938
American writers: a collection of literary biographies
Ref. PS129 .A55 v. 1-4
American women writers: a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present
PS147 .A42 v. 5
American writers before 1800: a biographical and critical dictionary
Ref. PS185 .A4 v.1-3
Guide to American poetry explication
Ref. PS201 .G85 1989 v. 1
Masterplots II. American fiction series
Ref. PS373 .M37 2000 v.1-6
The Facts on File companion to the American short story
Ref. PS374.S5 F33 2000
American women fiction writers
Ref. PS374.W6 A455 1997 v. 1- 3
An Emily Dickinson encyclopedia
Ref. PS1541.Z49 E47 1998
Edgar Allan Poe, A to Z: the essential reference to his life and work
Ref. PS2630 .S68 2001
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Ready Ref call # varies
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SEARCHING FOR BOOKS IN THE MWCC CATALOG
Use the following American Literature KEYWORDS to find books in the MWCC Library catalog:
American literature
literature criticism
Melville, Herman
puritanism
transcendentalism
whaling
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PERIODICALS
MWCC Library has the following American Liteature subject periodicals in print:
(unless otherwise noted, periodicals are kept on the periodical shelves)
American Theatre
Booklist
Children's Literature
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Choice
New York Review of Books
Poetry
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SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES
Searching online indexes is the best method of finding articles written on a topic. Indexes will lead you to article citations, which include the title and author of the article, the journal name, the volume number, and page number(s) of the article. Many of the online indexes also link directly to the full-text of the article. The following online databases, available from the Databases link at: http://library.mwcc.edu are excellent places to search for recent and past nursing articles.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Literature Online (LION)
Academic Search Premiere
Expanded Academic
InfoTrac
Net Library
OED
INTERNET RESOURCES
- http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages. Essay topics include: poetry, fiction, drama, and essays to history, theology and political writing. Wide selection of writing on orators, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and non-English writing.
- http://accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/amerlit.htm
Subject guide and library links intended for the students of American literature. Resources divided into Colonial, Federal, Romantic, Realism, Modernism, and General. Reflects categories of "classic" American literature.
- http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
Subject guide and instructional resource, a compendium of sources, definitions, and key topics in American Literature. Emphasis is on the major perspectives or literary movements in American literature.
- http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html
Contains a wealth of links to other American Literature pages. Links cover contemporary and ethnic creative writing and literature, Canadian and global literature sites.
- http://underthesun.cc/Classics/
HTML formatted e-text at Great Literature On-line. Each author entry contains a links page for further research. Authors include: Alcott; Cather; Chopin; Crane; Hawthorne; Shirley Jackson; Poe; Thoreau; Twain; and Whitman.
- http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm
literary works of women of color. Biographical information as well as selected bibliographies of texts written both by and about the author. Most authors are 20th century with a few entries from the 19th century.
- http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
Lengthy listing of literary resources, categories include: American Literature, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, & Bibliography & History of the Book.
- http://vos.ucsb.edu/
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2739
Voice of the Shuttle: a compendium of links for humanities research, topics include literary theory and literature in English. The first link is to the main page, the second link to American Literature.
- http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Index to free internet articles on topics in English and American literature. Links to academic articles, bibliographies, book reviews, online journals, and websites about literary works of British and American authors of the 20th century.
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html
Biography, texts, criticism and anything else related to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- http://www.melville.org/
A publication of the Herman Melville Internet Society. .Includes: Biographical, The Works: (Excerpts and Electronic Texts, Publishing History, Criticism), Of Related Interest: Links to the Sea, Whales, Sailing, and more.
- http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/links.html
Extensive virtual library of links to American literature sites.
- http://www.bartleby.com/113/
Close to 200 poems by Emily Dickinson will be found at this digital library site. Bartleby.com has produced this online version from the 1896 volume (Little, Brown; Boston) entitled "Poems".
- http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-3.htm#nativam
Collection of historical documents offering articles on American colonial history.
- http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
Brief biography information with extensive bibliographies, arranged by eras.
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