English 423: American Fiction

Use the I-Share Catalog to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 64 other Illinois academic and research libraries.

• Works by an author- Browse Author: Wharton, Edith

• Works by an author in a collection- Boolean Search: Wharton AND Edith

• Works about an author, or about their work- Browse Subject: Wharton, Edith

Sample "Browse Subject" searches:

Postmodernism (Literature)

Postcolonialism

American literature--Women authors

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism

If you can't find what you're looking for at our library, click on "Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries" at the top of the page. If you find a book that you'd like to order, then visit the Requesting Books Owned by Other I-Share Libraries site for ordering instructions.

Note: If you find books that you need to interlibrary loan, order them as soon as possible! They take 7-10 days) to arrive.

• Gale's Literature Resource Center ~excellent in-depth information about authors, including critical articles, biographies, and related websites. All full text.

• MLA International Bibliography ~comprehensive international database with critical journal articles, dissertations, and books. Linked full text available.

• Project Muse ~full text of over 200 humanities and the social sciences journals articles, from 1996 to the present. All full text

• JSTOR ~ JSTOR collects titles across several dicisplines, but does not generally carry the most recent years of journal runs. Use the "Advanced Search" funtion and select particular journal discipline areas (such as "Language and Literature") to narrow your searches. All full text.

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These sites are best used as starting points to help you find general information about your author or literary work/ time period: some sites even contain online full-text publications, essays and articles. Note: online web sites must be reviewed as to content, accuracy and authority.

Directory websites devoted to authors and specific literary works and genres

• Google Directory Author listing~a directory maintained by Google.

• Yahoo! Directory listing of literature and author websites ~another directory site.

Online Literary Criticism Journals

• Voice of the Shuttle~ another useful guide to online literature journals

• Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Directory~ this well-known website has an extensive directory of links to online scholarly literary criticism journals

 

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• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

• MLA Citation Resources