Washington and Lee University
Prof. Braunschneider, Fall 2006
Guide prepared by Yolanda Merrill, Humanities Librarian
If you'd like to have some individual time with Yolanda Merrill and learn more on how to use certain databases, or how to best research your topic, please send me a Research Appointment request.
| .Annie | |
Washington and Lee University's online catalog. Search for books, videos, DVDs, sound recordings and other materials the library owns. |
Keyword: --> BEHN GENDER
--> CRITICISM BEHN
This leads to possible LC Subject Headings to use (at the bottom of each record).
Subject Heading : --> Behn Aphra 1640 1689 Criticism And Interpretation
--> Women And Literature England History 17th Century
Once you have the call numbers for the books you need, go to the stacks and BROWSE the books' call number area for more books on the topic. Also, check the bibliography in the back of each book for more references.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
An international index to scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Materials covered include journal articles, series, monographs, and conference papers.
Coverage extends back to 1963. This database identifies refereed journal articles, and is updated ten times a year. It contains links to full text articles wherever possible. Details
| Project Muse | |
Full-text access to recent issues of over 220 journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers. Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other disciplines. Details |
| A digital archive of the most important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text EXCEPT for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher. Covers all subjects. Details | |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
ECCO provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, ECCO allows researchers new methods of access to publications in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Details
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 -- from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Besides literary and historical works, the database also includes musical exercises, prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources. Details
Brown University Women Writers Project
"The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader."
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The OED is the accepted authority on the history of words in the English language. It is the most important guide to the meaning and history of over a half-million words, both past and present, tracing the meanings of these words through the use of over 2.5 million quotations, drawn from a wide range of sources. The database contains the Second Edition and additions, including quarterly updates of at least 1,000 new and revised entries. Details
| Literature Resource Center (LRC) |
Contains extensive biographical and critical information on writers, movements, and works from virtually all periods. Details
| Magill On Literature |
Very basic critical analyses and brief plot summaries of important works in the history of literature (including non-fiction works), for more contemporary book reviews, for author biographies, and for profiles of literary characters. This online resource effectively contains over 21,000 essays from over 120 volumes of reference books, including 19 Masterplots sets. Details
Click on the WebBridge link within each database, or check our Periodical Finder to determine if we have access to the journal you need, and if we have the date you need. If not, please use our Interlibrary Loan service.
Here are links to Citation Style Guides which show you the right format for citing sources. There is also a link to plagiarism sites from here. This includes a link to REFWORKS, a tool that helps you make bibliographies/endnotes.
Modern Language Association (MLA) Style. This citation style is used by students and scholars working in the study of literature and languages.
You can get help at W&L's Writing Center.