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, AI3 .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 Knowldge, 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.

Resources on Short Fiction

Short Story Index indexes short fiction in English from the 19^th century to the present. One may search by author, title, subject or theme and there is an additional volume for works appearing in collections. Z5917 .S5 C62

Short Story Criticism includes excerpted article criticism and reviews in scholarly and more mainstream periodicals. PN3373 .S36

Critical Survey of Short Fiction includes volumes on works as well as authors with brief criticism of the plot, theses and characters as well as biographical criticism of the author. PN3321 .C7

Masterplots II. Short Story Series Series includes brief synopses of short fictions, including the plot, major themes and principal characters. PN3326 .M27

Resources on Film Research

Film Index International includes filmographies on films made from 1930 to the present, in addition to references to current and historical critical articles and popular reviews.

Batty, Linda. Retrospective index to film periodicals, 1930-1971. New York : R. R. Bowker, 1975. Indexes historical popular reviews of mainly American films from 1930 to 1971. Z5784 .M9 B39.

Bowles, Stephen E. Index to critical film reviews in British and American film periodicals, together with: Index to critical reviews of books about film. Compiled and edited by Stephen E. Bowles. New York, B. Franklin, 1974. This resources includes reviews of films in the United States and Great Britain as well as reviews of books about films from 1963 to 1982. PN1995 .B64.

Film Literature Index. Albany, Filmdex, inc. This quarterly publication is an author-subject index to the international literature of film. Reference (Evans Library 1st floor) PN1993.5 .A1 F516

Film Review Index. A very useful resource indexing both popular reviews and in-depth criticism on films from 1882 to1985. PN1995 .F48.

International Film Index. Film directory and directors' and actors' filmography, covering 160 countries. It includes short and animated films as well as features. PN19988 .I68.

Magills' Cinema Annual includes historical and current popular reviews of selected films from 1981 to present. PN1993.3 .M34. Consult also the 3 various series of Magill’s Survey of Cinema.

Media Review Digest includes historical and current popular reviews for theatrical and educational works from 1985 to present. Z5784 .M9 M85.

Motion Picture Guide. Contains alphabetical entries on virtually every foreign and American feature film, prior to 1984. It is includes cast and credits, plot summary, analysis, and film rating, as well as a detailed listing of award winners. PN1995 .N3461.

New York Times Encyclopedia of Film. A reprint collection of facsimile articles that appeared in The New York Times from 1986-1973. PN1993 .N465 1984.

Review of the Arts: Film and Television. Index to articles on motion pictures and television shows selected
from newspapers from over 450 U.S. cities, reproduced on microfiche (be certain to get the microfiche number from the index).PN1993 .R48

Salem, James M. A Guide to Critical Reviews. New York, Scarecrow Press, 1966-71, 1973, 1984. The three editions of this combine to cover historical reviews in drama and film for the entirety of the twentieth century, including American drama, musicals, British and continental drama, and screenplays. Z5782 .S34 (1^st edition), Z5782 .S342 (2^nd edition), Z5781 .S16 1984 (3^rd edition).

Samples, Gordon. How to Locate Reviews of Plays and Films: a bibliography of criticism from the beginnings to the present provides a master-index to other resources and bibliographies in cinema. Z5781 .S19.

Variety Film Reviews. Full-text trade reviews published in Variety Magazine from 1907 to 1984. PN1995 .V34.

Tibbetts, John C. and James M. Welsh. Novels into Film: The Encyclopedia of Movies Adapted from books. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999. An interesting analysis of films based on fiction and nonfiction, their similarities and their deviations. PN1997.85 .T54 1999.

Selected Resources

Oakes, David A. Science and destabilization in the modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. PS374 .G68 O18 2000 (Cushing Library)

Magistrale, Tony. Poe's children: connections between tales of terror and detection. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. PS374 .D4 M26 1999

Clemens, Valdine. The return of the repressed: gothic horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. PR830 .T3 C59 1999

Spectral readings: towards a Gothic geography, edited by Glennis Byron and David Punter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. PN3435 .S64 1999

Gothic horror: a reader's guide from Poe to King and beyond, edited by Clive Bloom. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. PS374 .G68 G68 1998

Punter, David. Gothic pathologies: the text, the body, and the law. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. PR830 .T3 P86 1998

Den Tandt, Christophe. The urban sublime in American literary naturalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. PS374 .C5 D46 1998

Goddu, Teresa A. Gothic America: narrative, history, and nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.PS374 .G68 G63 1997

American supernatural fiction: from Edith Wharton to the weird tales writers. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.PS374 .S83 A48 1996

Ingebretsen, Ed. Maps of heaven, maps of hell: religious terror as memory from the Puritans to Stephen King. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. PS374 .H67 I54 1996

Ringel, Faye. New England's Gothic literature: history and folklore of the supernatural from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1995. PS243 .R56 1995

Frontier gothic: terror and wonder at the frontier in American literature, edited by David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. Karpinski. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. PS169 .F7 F77 1993

DeLamotte, Eugenia C. Perils of the night : a feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. PR868 .T3 D45 1990

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.

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