American Literature: January 2008 Archives

 

 

TU Libraries has recently added Literature Criticism Online to its suite of electronic resources!

Literature Criticism Online is an outstanding reference literature database, offering biographical and bibliographical information on over 3,000 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), in addition to scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

This collection contains the scanned pages of every single volume from two of Gale's popular, print literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (245 volumes currently) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (196 volumes currently).  Just think how much shelf space that would be!  Users can search by known author, text, critic, or source title, as well as by keyword.

Literature Criticism Online is a valuable literary resource and complements well with the Libraries' subscription to Literature Resource Center which contains select collections of critical material from Gale's other literary resources: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.

Be sure to check it out!

The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.

Perfect for complementing literary research, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of 19th century history: population, politics and government, economy and work, society and culture, religion, social problems and reform, everyday life, and foreign policy are explored in more than 600 A-to-Z articles.

Hundreds of illustrations and maps are also included, as well as an exhaustive year-by-year chronology, original documents, and tables.

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.

The encyclopedia examines individual poets and poems, and contains many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.

Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.

• New American Literature Materials

• New English Literature Materials

• New Film & Media Arts Materials

Literally hundreds of new journals were recently added to Periodicals Index Online.  Select indexed titles include:

• American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 (1967-1995)
  
• Communication Yearbook (1977-1995)
  
• Doris Lessing Newsletter (1976-1995)
  
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1988-1995)
  
• European Journal of Communication (1986-1995)
  
• Political Communication (1980-1995)
  
• Studies in Scottish Literature (1963-1993)
  
• Victorian Literature and Culture (1973-1995)
  
• Yeats Annual (1982-1995)
  

Be sure to check them out!

Twenty-three new journals were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.  Select titles include: