InfoGuides: ENG 426 Democratic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Topics in American Literature): Home

Welcome

This research guide will point you toward online research resources and strategies available to you as scholars doing literary research at Pepperdine.

Search for online books

Some alternate editions of the assigned readings may be found online. For example:

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Democracy in America vol. I & II

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Internet Archive
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
ProQuest Ebook Central tutorials
Tutorials on how to borrow, download, annotate, and create an online bookshelf for ebooks using Ebook Central.

19th century American Books

19th Century American Women Writers Web
A study and appreciation of 19th century American culture and women writers. A collection of poetry, novels, short stories, biographical material, etc.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
The Digital Schomburg is a text database of 52 works by Afro-American women published prior to 1920. Documents are browsable by title, author, or genre (fiction, poetry, biography, or essays); browse lists can be further searched by keywords.

Online Periodicals

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.
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 Periodicals Series Online
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Provides the full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editiorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc., from more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Popular, special interest and general magazines; literary and professional journals; children's and women's magazines; and many other historically significant periodicals are included.

The articles are available as digitized images and therefore preserve the original typography, graphics, and page layout. The database allows searching by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS Online leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database. Extensive primary source content in its original context and a history of American magazine publishing are made available in APS Online.

Informational Databases

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.
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Access to a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America; includes over 660 online, searchable articles and bibliographies.

Subject Guide

Elizabeth Parang

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

Why Google Scholar?

Question: Why would you use Google Scholar?

Answer: Google Scholar identifies scholarly research materials from a broad range of subject areas.

Google Scholar offers a "cited by" feature - it will display a list of documents which cited the document you originally retrieved. This can be useful in determing how influential a source has been. The list only includes documents available in Google Scholar, though.

Go into the preferences of Google Scholar and select Pepperdine University from Library Links.