Compiled by Karen Dobrusky and Lisa Gordis
8 October 2002
American
Literary Scholarship.
Annual: 1963 – 2000.
Annual publication which discusses the current research and literature of
the past year and which is presented in essay form. Included is a section
devoted to 19th century writers including a section on women
writers. There is an index of the authors discussed in the back of the
volume.
PS3 .A47 (reference)
American
Women’s Fiction, 1790-1899; A Reference Guide. Barbara A. White. 1990.
A bibliography of books and articles about 19th century women
writers. There is a convenient author list in the back, which refers you to
material about your author.
PS374 .W6 W49 1990g (reference)
Colonial
and nineteenth-century; Guide to American Poetry Explication.
James Ruppert. 1989.
A bibliography of critical articles on poetry; can search by author and then
a specific poem.
PS201 .R66 1989g
Dictionary
of Literary Biography.
(265 + volumes)
Provides overview articles on writers
with bibliographies to other resources listed at the end of the article.
Check the last volume to locate in which volume(s) your author is located.
Most of the authors you are reading are included in at least one volume.
PS159 .D5 (reference)
An
Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia.
Jane Donohue Eberwein, editor. 1998.
Dictionary of people, ideas and topics related to Emily Dickinson.
PS1541.Z49 E47 1998. (reference)
Encyclopedia
of American Social History. 3
vols. 1993.
Scholarly articles on a vast array of topics related American social
history. Bibliographies are attached to the articles.
HN57 .E58 1993 (reference)
Encyclopedia
of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. 3 vols. 200.
Scholarly articles with attached bibliographies on many aspects of
nineteenth century America. Topics range from Abolition and Slavery to Zoos.
E169.1 .E626 2002
Handbook
of American Women’s History.
Angela Howard, ed.
Contains short and concise articles on a wide variety of historical topics
useful for background reading, such as domestic feminism, nineteenth century
women’s movement, slavery and marriage. These short articles have
selective bibliographies.
HQ1410 .H36 1990 (reference)
Louisa
May Alcott Encyclopedia.
Gregory Eiselein and Anne C. Phillips eds.
Dictionary of events, people and topics related to Louisa May Alcott.
PS1018 .A3 2001 (reference)
Nineteenth
Century American Women Writers; A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook.
Denise D. Knight ed. 1997.
Overview articles on selected 19th century American women
authors. Bibliographies included.
Nineteenth
Century Literary Criticism.
(75 volumes) includes topical articles, such as:
Volume 52, p1-59 : article on American humor writing
Volume 52, p 60-135: children’s literature
Volume 20, p 1-91: article on slave narratives
PN761 .N56 (reference)
Oxford
Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States.
Cathy N. Davidson, et. al. eds. 1995
Contains short and concise articles on the authors you are reading as well as
articles on autobiography, race, women’s magazines, humor, suffrage movement,
frontier writing and spirituality.
PS147 .0994 1995 (reference)
Poems
of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary published in English,
1978-1989. Joseph Duchac. 1993
Bibliography of critical materials.
Nineteenth-century Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature,
1890-1899. 2 vol.
A13 .R496 (reference)
Poole’s Index to Periodical
Literature. (6
vol. in 7)
A13 .P7
1938g (reference) (See also Nineetenth
Century Masterfile below.)
Victorian
America, 1876 to 1913. Crandall
A. Shifflett. 1996.
Primarily a factbook. There are
sections devoted to many topics including religion, education, arts &
letters, popular culture and sports.
E168 .S55 1996 (reference)
Victorian
American Women: 1840 –1880.
An Annotated Bibliography.
Contains overview articles on selected
topics of the Victorian era such as fashion, society, domesticity etc. A
bibliography of primary and secondary sources is also included.
Z7964 .U49 M43 1992 (reference)
MLA (Modern Language Association
Bibliography)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/mla-bibl.html
Major database in
languages and literature. Includes
citations only.
Humanities Abstracts.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/humanities-abs.html
General humanities
database. Includes literature, history and more. Citations only.
LION: Literature Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/lion.html
Database of citations to
periodical articles about English-Language literature. Includes some full text
articles.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/women-writers.html
Database for women’s
studies, gender studies and feminist studies and criticism. Citations only
America: History and Life.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/amer-hist-life.html
Major database for finding
articles about American history. Citations only.
Electronic journal collections:
Columbia
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/ejournals/
Browse electronic journal collections or
search for a journal by title.
American
Periodical Series
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/am-per-ser.html.
Searchable full-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals
of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
ProQuest
Direct.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/proquest-direct.html
Interdisciplinary database with many full text
periodical/journal articles. Includes the journal American
JSTOR
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/jstor.html
A searchable collection of journals available with
full text. Includes the first volume of the journal but
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/muse.html
An interdisciplinary collection of journals
available with full text. Latest 3-5 years of the journal only are
Accessible
Archives
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/access-archives.html
Amercian
Memory: A collection of texts and images from the Library of
Congress.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/am-memory-proj.html
Gerritsen Collection of Women's History Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/gerritsen.html
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/pooles-plus.html
North American Women's Letters and Diaries.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/na-womens-ld.html
A searchable full-text collection of letters and diaries from the
colonial period to 1950.
Useful Resources in American Literature and Culture: My list of useful resources. I have not had time to update this list fully since I returned from leave, so it is not comprehensive and also includes some outdated links.
Women’s studies online subject guide.
http://www.colulmbia.edu/cu/libraries/subjects/womensstudies/fmjnls2.html
Women Writers Online
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/women-writers.html