The resources listed herein are merely starting points. The library can provide many more resources specific to a particular topic. Many of the sources below are databases accessible via the Internet.

Catalogs and Union Catalogs

Online Catalog LibCat includes the materials (books, journals, videos, documents and other materials) that the Libraries hold. Be aware that there are groups of materials not included in the catalog: many government documents and microform sets that we own may not appear in LibCat.

WorldCat Catalog of books and journals, the contents of over 14,000 research libraries, mainly in North America. Anything found on WorldCat that is not available in Evans Library can be ordered through Interlibrary Services or Get it for me.

Literature Criticism and Reviews

MLA International Bibliography This database indexes sources on literature, linguistics and drama from 1963 to present. Also available in print back to 1920. While it indexes secondary literature, it may lead to other pertinent information on the topic. PB1 .M46 from 1920 to 1962; from 1963 to present, on the web.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature An electronic index of critical articles and book reviews on language and literature in English back to 1892. The print index of article citations on English language and literature covers published articles from 1920 to present. PB1 .A55.

Wilson Indexes A collection of databases of article citations, on a variety of subjects from science to business to the social sciences. The web versions of Humanities Index, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature and Essay and General Literature Index will provide citations to literary criticism articles and book chapters. Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, AI3 .R48, continues Poole’s Index, AI3 .P7, covering periodical literature from 1800 to present. Essay and General Literature Index includes citations to articles and book chapters from 1900 to present, AI 3 E752. Humanities Index will provide citations to criticism articles in literature, including poetry, short fiction, drama and novels. The print indexes back to 1972. AI3 H84

EBSCOHost (Academic Search Complete) is a collection of selected full text periodicals and scholarly journals, U.S. and international newspapers, reference books and detailed pamphlets from a variety of disciplines.

PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) includes citations and selected full-text from critical articles as well as book and performance review in humanities and social sciences journals from 1770 to 1993. This is the only electronic resource available that indexes back to the 1770s.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index are part of the Web of Knowledge, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. The online versions go back to 1982 while the paper version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Z5931 .A78 goes back to 1975, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Z7163 .S6 extends back to 1956.

Author Bio-bibliographical Resources

Dictionary of Literary Biography is a valuable place to start when doing research on an author. It provides personal background, a bibliography, brief critique of the body of their work and contributions to the fields, as well as locations of major collections. PN451 .D53.

Contemporary Authors also provides an overview of an author, as well as additional biographical and critical resources to consult. PN451 .C6.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index of indices, providing coverage of Biography Index, Who’s Who, Contemporary Authors and other biographical sources. CT120 .B56.

Electronic Journals and Full-text Databases

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text resource including newspapers as well as popular, trade and scholarly publications in all areas from about 20 years to the present. It will have the full-text of critical articles and reviews from current sources.

Project Muse and JStor are packages of electronic journals in the Humanities. They are among the more than 1500 online titles to which the Library has access. Project Muse is a full-text collection of humanities journals from 1995 to present; JStor is a full-text collection of history, philosophy, economics, and political science journals from their conception (at times, from the 1700s) to present. These are also accessible via the library’s web page at http://library.tamu.edu.

Selected Resources

Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, and their sisters, edited by Laura Dabundo. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000. PR868.W6 J36 2000

Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence. Jane Austen: illusion and reality. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1999. PR4038 .E46 B76 1999eb (Electronic Resource Remotely Available)

Shaw, Harry E. Narrating reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. PR868 .R4 S53 1999

Parker, Jo Alyson. The author's inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the establishment of the novel. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998. PR3458 .A9 P37 1998

Jane Austen in Hollywood, edited by Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. PR4038 .F55 J36 1998

Wye, Margaret Enright. Jane Austen's Emma : embodied metaphor as a cognitive construct. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. PR4034 .E53 W94 1998

Bilger, Audrey. Laughing feminism : subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. PR858 .F45 B55 1998

The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. PR4036 .C3 1997

Fritzer, Penelope Joan. Jane Austen and eighteenth-century courtesy books. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. PR4038 .C6 F75 1997

Myer, Valerie Grosvenor. Jane Austen, obstinate heart: a biography. New York: Arcade Pub., 1997. PR4036 .M94 1997

O'Farrell, Mary Ann. Telling complexions: the nineteenth-century English novel and the blush. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. PR868 .B58 O34 1997

Batey, Mavis. Jane Austen and the English landscape. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1996. PR4036 .B38 1996

Watkins, Susan. Jane Austen in style. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. PR4038 .E46 W38 1996

Jane Austen's business: her world and her profession, edited by Juliet McMaster and Bruce Stovel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. PR4037 .J36 1996

Pinch, Adela. Strange fits of passion: epistemologies of emotion, Hume to Austen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. PR448 .E46 P56 1996

Library Assistance

If you need additional assistance, please don’t hesitate to go the Evans Reference Desk for Help. They are located on the 1^st floor of the Main Library building. You may also contact them via phone at 845-5741 or via email at lib-help@tamu.edu.

If you want specialized help, you may schedule an appointment with me, as liaison librarian to the Department of English, and I will be happy to help you with your research topic, recommend sources and introduce you to searching some of the electronic materials.

Candace R. Benefiel
Associate Professor
979-862-1044
cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu