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Literature Databases

MLA International Bibliography
An index of journal articles, books, and dissertations, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.5 million citations from more than 5,000 journals and series and 1,200 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

In addition, The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the Bibliography are included.
Literature Resource Center
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 145,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

General Databases

JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III, IV, and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
American National Biography
Access to portraits of more than 18,700 men and women, updated quarterly with new and revised entries, features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Includes over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, providing historical and social context to the biographies.
America: History and Life
Provides access to scholarly literature from journals, dissertations and book and media reviews on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexing covers 1,800 journals from 1964 to the present and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries

Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Titles can be searched alone, by subject, or all titles can be searched together.

Books from the library catalog

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Russ Castronovo (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199355891
Publication Date: 2014-01-02
This volume brings together 23 original essays written by leading scholars in American literary studies. By examining specific novels, poems, essays, diaries and other literary examples, the authors confront head-on the implications, scope, and scale of their analysis. The chapters foreground methodological concerns to assess the challenges of transnational perspectives, disability studies, environmental criticism, affect studies, gender analysis, and other cutting-edge approaches.
The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass by Maurice S. Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 9781139002547
Publication Date: 2009-07-28
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice.
Stowe in Her Own Time by Susan Belasco (Editor)
ISBN: 9781587298325
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her before and after Uncle Tom's Cabin catapulted her to fame.

Useful Resources

J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
Official publication of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, available in Project Muse
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
The first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies. Website has information on membership, conference calls/announcements, references to J19, podcasts, teaching resources, etc.
Nineteenth-Century American Writers: Novelists, Poets, Story Writers, Essayists & Autobiographers
Literaryhistory.com is a free, public service reference site for online literary criticism maintained by Jan Pridmore, a Boston-based independent scholar.
Henry David Thoreau online
A website dedicated to one of the most important writers of the nineteenth-century United States and one of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism, offering easy access to the large collection of his works, biography, quotes, links to other resources, and more.
Hawthorne in Salem
The Hawthorne in Salem Website was created and is being maintained by North Shore Community College with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Community College Humanities Association.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville
Collection of links
Mark Twain in His Times
Excellent resources and analysis by Stephen Railton Department of English, University of Virginia.

Newspapers/Magazines

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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Access to selected newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922. Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
America's Historical Newspapers (“Early American Newspapers, Series 1”)
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Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876 and is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
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This collection provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Accessible Archives
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Accessible Archives provides full text searchable databases of primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in an online environment.

Librarian

Elizabeth Parang

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Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Art, Art History, Creative Writing, Education, English 101 & 100, English Literature, Humanities, Literature, Psychology