Guides: ENGL 4850: Literature in Context and ENGL 6500: Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865: Welcome and Class Information

Class Information

Dr. Angela Calcaterra

Email: angela.calcaterra@unt.edu

Office: Lang 407F

Office Hours: M/W 12:00 - 1:30 pm

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English Website

Department of English Website
Find faculty publications, undergraduate advising, graduate program information, and more on the English Department's website.

RefWorks Information

RefWorks

Online bibliographic management program that allows users to import citation information, create a personal database of references information, and create a bibliography and annotated bibliography page in Word.

Databases

Literature resource center
Includes information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.
MLA international bibliography
Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in English as well as many other languages.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to archived backfiles of journals in Arts & Sciences, Business, Language & Literature, General Science, Ecology & Botany, and Music. Journals may be browsed or searched.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) via CSA abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Includes serials publications, abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. Dates of Coverage: 1973 - Current
Project Muse
Access to over 100 scholarly, electronic journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics
Dates of Coverage: Varies by publication.
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Contains alphabetically arranged entries on critics, theorists, critical schools and movements, and critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Compiled by specialists from around the world. Designed for use by scholars as well as users interested in theoretical issues but who do not have specialized knowledge. Chronological range extends from Plato and Aristotle to the present, with wide geographical and cultural coverage. Dates of Coverage: Covers theoretical issues dating from Classical Greece to present.

UNT Primary Resources

Digital Collections
The UNT Digital Library is a centralized repository for the rich collections held by the libraries, colleges, schools, and departments at the University of North Texas
The Portal to Texas History
A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.
UNT Libraries: Finding Aids
Use this tool to browse descriptions of our unique holdings. You can request these items to be viewed in the Special Collections Reading room on Willis Library's 4th Floor.
Library of Congress
Primary Source Sets

Primary Sources

Prior to 1801 ESTC English Short Title Catalog

1473-1700 EBBO Early English Books Online

1701-1800 ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online

1639-1800 Evans Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker

1801-1819 Shaw Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans Digital Edition

English short title catalogue 1473-1800.
Comprehensive bibliography that includes items printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, the United States (1776-1800), and Canada; in any language. Also, items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any other part of the world.
Early English Books Online.
The collection covers many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas: books, directories, bibles, sheet music, pamphlets and more.
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography,

NOTE: The license for this product restricts authorized use to access by current faculty and students of the University of North Texas. The person accessing this link is liable for any infringement.
Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

NOTE: The license for this product restricts authorized use to access by current faculty and students of the University of North Texas. The person accessing this link is liable for any infringement.
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography,

NOTE: The license for this product restricts authorized use to access by current faculty and students of the University of North Texas. The person accessing this link is liable for any infringement.
British periodicals
Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences
Contents: British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the collection Early British Periodicals. Dates of Coverage:1680s to the 1930s
Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Modernist Journals Project
The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.

Oxford reference online
Oxford Reference Online Provides full text access to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias by Oxford University Press as well as selected titles from the Oxford Companion series. Dates of Coverage 2002 - Current
Oxford dictionary of national biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography a record, including images, of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. Dates of Coverage: 2004- current
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Selected reference ebooks, including Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, Encyclopedia of Science & Religion, Encyclopedia of Science Technology & Ethics, Encyclopedia of Sociology, Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders, and World of Forensic Science.

Poetry

Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography,

NOTE: The license for this product restricts authorized use to access by current faculty and students of the University of North Texas. The person accessing this link is liable for any infringement.
Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

NOTE: The license for this product restricts authorized use to access by current faculty and students of the University of North Texas. The person accessing this link is liable for any infringement.
Godey's lady's book
The magazine developed an important literary reputation over time with the inclusion of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others . Also contains fashion descriptions with hand-colored plates, biographical sketches, recipes, sheet music, and information about health, hygiene, and handcrafts
Contents: Searchable access to a nineteenth-century social and literary magazine for American women.

Early Americas Digital Archive
Library of Congress
Found Poetry from the Primary Source Sets

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Compilations:

Items are edited together into single volumes.

Dictionaries:

Subject-specific dictionaries exist for a variety of topics.

Directories:

A book containing one or more alphabetical lists of the inhabitants of any locality, with their addresses and occupations; also a similar compilation dealing with the members of a particular profession, trade, or association, for example a Clerical or Medical Dictionary, etc. Infomine is good for subject specific directories.

Encyclopedias

Guides:

Archives and Manuscripts
Audiovisual
Databases
General
Patents

Handbooks

Patent and Statistical Databases

Patents
Statistics
Reference

Technical Surveys and Reports

Archives
Audiovisual
Copyright
General

Thesauri -- Classified list of terms or keywords

Archives
Art and Architecture
Classical Languages
Cultures, Anthropology, and Sociology
General
Law and Politics
Museology
Music
Science and Mathematics

Union Catalogs

National Union Catalog is an example. Another example is OCLC Worldcat.

Humanities and Instruction Librarian

Carol Hargis

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Subjects: Communication Studies, English, Medieval Studies

ENGL 4850: Literature in Context and ENGL 6500: Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865