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LITERATURE

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC). Detroit: Gale Research, 1981-.
     Ref. PN761.N5
A continuing series that provides readers with excerpts of literary criticism and general information on more than 300 authors who died between 1800 and 1899.

Mikolyzk, Thomas A., comp. Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
     Ref. PR5823 .M56 1993

Mudge, Isadore Gilbert and M. E. Sears. A George Eliot Dictionary: The Characters and Scenes of the Novels, Stories, and Poems Alphabetically Arranged. New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1972.
     Ref. PR4695 .M8 1972

Hardwick, Michael and Mollie Hardwick, comp.The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia. Reading: Osprey Publishing, 1973.
     Ref. PR4595 .H28 1973

Paddock, Lisa Olson and Carl Rollyson. The Brontës A to Z : The Essential Reference to Their Lives and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
     Ref. PR4168 .P28 2003

Schlicke, Paul, ed. Oxford Readers Companion to Charles Dickens. Oxford: New York Oxford University Press, 1999.
     Ref. PR4580 .O94 1999

Weyant, Nancy S. Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources, 1976-1991. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.
     Ref. PR4711 .W49 1994

Wright, Sarah Bird. Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
     Ref. PR4752 .W75 2002

See also Literary Criticism Resource Guide.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Adams, James Eli, Tom Pendergast, and Sara Pendergast, eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference, 2004.
     Ref. DA 550 .E527 2004

Cevasco, G.A., ed. The 1890's: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture.New York: Garland, 1993.
     Ref. DA 560 .A18 1993

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1988.
     Ref. DA 550 .V53 1988

Roberts, Adam C. Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary. London, Arnold, 2003.
     Ref. DA 550 .R597 2003

BIOGRAPHY - GENERAL

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Collection of 50,000 biographies of persons of note associated with the British Isles from the fourth century BC to 2000. Remote access is available only to SLU students, faculty, and staff.

American National Biography
Find biographies of over 17,400 deceased men and women who made significant contributions to building the United States.  Remote access is available only to SLU students, faculty, and staff.

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Search the SLU Libraries Catalog to find books on Victorian literature and culture. If you are unable to find what you need, search MOBIUS, a library catalog that contains the holdings of over fifty college and university libraries in Missouri.

To find criticism of an author's work, perform a subject search on the author's name (last name, first name) and then select the subject heading that ends in "criticism and interpretation" or the name of the work you're interested in. For example, search for "Dickens, Charles" and select the subject heading that says "Dickens Charles - 1812 1870 - Criticism And Interpretation" or "Dickens Charles - 1812 1870 - Bleak House."

You can also use a keyword search to find literary criticism. For example, you could perform a keyword search on "Bleak House and narration."

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Remote access to article databases is available only to SLU students, faculty, and staff.

LITERATURE

MLA International Bibliography - 1926-present
Indexes books, book chapters, dissertations and articles from over 4,400 journals in language, linguistics, literature, and folklore.

HUMANITIES (Use to find literary criticism as well as cultural and historical information.)

Humanities Full Text - 1984-present
Indexes and/or abstracts over 600 humanities periodicals. Full text is available from approximately 230 journals.

For book reviews: Limit your search by Document Type to Book Review.

JSTOR
This archival journal resource provides access to the full-text of over 500 journal titles. Note that the last 1 to 7 years of each journal are not available in this resource.

For book reviews: Click on Advanced Search. Type the title in the Exact Phrase search box and narrow your search to reviews.

Project Muse
Search for full-text literary criticism articles in Project Muse. This electronic journal collection provides full-text access to over 250 scholarly journals.

For book reviews: Click on Advanced Search. Search for the title by Title Reviewed.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 1995-present
This database provides author and subject indexing of articles published worldwide in arts and humanities journals. It also supports citation indexing, which establishes links between cited articles and the most recent publications in which they are cited.
[A CD-ROM which covers 1975 - 1994 is available at Workstation A in the Reference Room]

HISTORY

Historical Abstracts - 1964-present
Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review Index Online - 1965-present
Search over 5 million book review references in one place.

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[Remote access to library databases is available only to SLU students, faculty, and staff.]

BRITISH & AMERICAN PERIODICAL DATABASES

Periodicals Index Online - 1665-1995
Indexes the articles in over 4,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Hundreds of journals are available in full text in the complementary database, Periodicals Archive Online. The focus is on 20th century periodicals. However, periodicals in the 20th century that extend back into the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries are indexed from their earliest volumes. The scope is worldwide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.

For book reviews: Click on Article Search. Type the title in the Article Title Keyword box. Select Book Reviews in the Search Options section of the page. Deselect All Content and Articles.

19th Century Masterfile - 1802-1920
Covers nearly all periodicals of the late eighteenth through early twentieth century.

BRITISH PERIODICAL DATABASES

The Times Digital Archive - 1785-1985
Two hundred years of the The Times (London) newspaper in full text.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals - 1824-1900 [In-library access at computers in Reference Department]
This CD-ROM provides indexing for over 45 British periodicals from the Victorian Era. Search by date, author, title, and more. Topics covered include literature, political history, art history, history of science, music history, colonial history, religious history and women's studies.

Science in the 19th Century Periodical (SciPer Index) - 1800-1900
Search the science content of several British nineteenth-century general periodicals.

AMERICAN PERIODICAL DATABASES

New York Times- 1851-2003
Full text archive of the New York Times from 1851-2003.

Chicago Tribune - 1849-1985
Full text archive of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1985.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers - 1800-1900
Newspapers included are from cities and rural areas spread throughout the United States.  

PRINT DIRECTORY

Wolff, Michael, John S. North, and Dorothy Deering. The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, l977.
     Ref. Z 6956 .G6 W63
Lists alphabetically the newpaper and periodical titles published in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales between 1824 and 1900.

PERIODICALS ON MICROFILM

Pius Library owns various Victorian periodicals on microfilm. Peform a Journal Title search in the SLU Libraries Catalog to see if Pius owns the periodical you're interested in.

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The Victorian Web

The Victorian Women Writers Project

Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature by Period - Victorian

Literary Resources - Victorian British

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Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Internet Sources

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
     Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2003

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