Image of Emily Brontë from Literature Online. Link to Emily Brontë's texts, biographical information, criticism, and other websites. Other authors studied in this course are represented in Literature Online.

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English Literature

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Course Material
Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.

Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 219. Click search.

Full-Text Articles
These items are full-text e-resources in the Short Loan Collection. You must be logged on with NetID and password to gain access.

Eagleton, Terry. Heathcliff and the great hunger : studies in Irish culture. London : Verso, 1995. Chapter 1. pp. 1-26

Empson, William. "Alice in Wonderland : the child as swain" in, Some Versions of a Pastoral.  London : Chatto & Windus, 1935. 251-295.

Voyager Searches

The following are Subject Heading searches.

english literature 19th century history and criticism english fiction 19th century history and criticism literature and society great britain history 19th century literature and society england history 19th century england social life and customs 19th century children england history 19th century children in literature

gender identity in literature girls in literature boys in literature sex role in literature self in literature family in literature domestic relations in literature

Author's names may be used as SUBJECT HEADING searches to find books about them and their work:

Reference Books
For more information about reference books, and a more extensive list, see Reference Resources for English

Barnard, Robert. A Brontë encyclopedia. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Brantlinger, Patrick, William B. Thesing, eds. A companion to the Victorian novel. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.

Gill, Richard. Mastering the novels of Jane Austen. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Harvey, Geoffrey. The complete critical guide to Thomas Hardy. New York : Routledge, 2003.

Leiter, Sharon. Critical companion to Emily Dickinson : a literary reference to her life and work. New York: Facts on File, 2007.

Olsen, Kirsten. All things Austen: an encyclopedia of Austen's world. Wesport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2005.

Morgan, Rosemarie. Student companion to Thomas Hardy. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Page, Norman, ed. Oxford reader's companion to Hardy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Paroissien, David, ed. A companion to Charles Dickens. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Regan, Stephen, ed. The nineteenth-century novel : a critical reader. London : Routledge, 2001.

Taylor, Susan B., ed. The Brontës : a documentary volume. Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, 2008.

Williams, Chris, ed. A companion to nineteenth-century Britain. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. All titles are available in print, but also online via the Cambridge Collections Online database. The links below take you to the print edition in Voyager. Within the database, you can either search for an individual title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection.

Bristow, Joseph, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

David, Deirdre, ed. The Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge companion to William Blake. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Gill, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Glen, Heather, ed. The Cambridge companion to the Brontës. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. 

Jordan, John O., ed. The Cambridge companion to Charles Dickens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Kramer, Dale, ed. The Cambridge companion to Thomas Hardy. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Martin, Wendy, ed. The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Powell, Kerry, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Raby, Peter, ed. The Cambridge companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Databases 
For help with using databases, contact the Subject Librarian

The following databases will provide references to material on all authors and topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases.

Literature Online provides Knowledge Notes ™ on the following works.

• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Great Expectations
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Emma
• Wuthering Heights

You can also use the QUICK SEARCH box in Literature Online, typing in the any of the authors covered in this course, e.g. Dickinson Emily, or the title of a particular work, e.g. Wuthering Heights. The results will display available material from all parts of the database - primary works, reference material, biographies, criticism, and web sites.

MLA International Bibliography - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters, and journal articles.Use the to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager catalogue record or links to JSTOR and Project Muse databases.

 
 Internet Resources

You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.

Victorian Web - covers all aspects of the Victorian period. Most of the authors from this course have links from this site. 

Victorian Web Sites - links to other sites on a wide variety of topics.

Jane Austen Society of North America - includes the on-line publication Persuasions the Jane Austen Journal. Winter issue for 2000 includes papers delivered at the 1999 Jane Austen conference on Emma.

The Brontë Parsonage Museum & Brontë Society and Haworth Village, showing inside the parsonage.

Thomas Hardy Society - use the left side-bar to navigate the site.

Emily Dickinson - part of PAL - Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide.

Emily Dickinson - from the Academy of American Poets site.

William Blake Archive - a hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress.

The official website of Oscar Wilde.

Lewis Carroll Society - the Reading and Researching section.