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Dana Hall Library >> Subject Guides >> English >>  Lit Comp III Short Story

Literature & Composition III:
Short Story Pathfinder

Reference Sources

Specialized Reference Sources

American women writers: a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present REF BC AME
American writers: a collection of literary biographies REF 810.9 AME
Female dramatist REF 809.2082 PAR
Feminist companion to literature in English REF 820.90003 FEM
Library of literary criticism: modern American literature REF 810 LIB
Merriam-Webster's dictionary of American writers REF 810.9003 MER
Modern American literature REF 810.9 MOD
Modern American women writers REF 810.99 MOD
Modern women writers REF 809.89287 MOD
Oxford companion to American Literature REF 810.9 OXF
Moulton's library of literary criticism of English and American authors through the beginning of the twentieth century REF 809 MOU
Notable American women REF BC NOT
The Penguin companion to American literature REF 810 PEN
Reader's encyclopedia of American literature REF 810.3 HER
Twentieth century authors: a biographical dictionary of modern literature REF BC TWE
World biography REF BC DIC

Other Print Sources

Kate Chopin 813.4 KAT
The Norton anthology of short fiction 808.831 NOR
Short fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman F SHO
Short story writers and short stories 808.831 BLO
Women writers of the short story: a collection of critical essays 813.01 WOM

Subscription Databases

American National Biography
Biographies of prominent Americans.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
General encyclopedia.

Oxford Reference Online
General encyclopedia.

LitFinder
Texts of poems and short stories and biographical information on authors.

SIRS Renaissance
Current full-text articles focusing on the arts and the humanities; many articles supplemented by graphics, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.

Websites

Georgetown's Heath Anthology of American Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/

Not an easy site to navigate! Scroll down to Reader Resources, click "Volume II" under American Literature Resources, and look for Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1910) authors. Recommended to search through Google for both the author's name and "Georgetown."

Gonzaga University's "Studies in the Novel: Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism"
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/engl462/

Developed for a course at the Gonzaga University, the site offers bibliographies and extracts from some texts. Sui Sin Far is mentioned among the studies' subjects.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

IPL's section on literary criticism both by author's last name and period.

Scribbling Women
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/

"Maintained by the Public Media Foundation, (it) provides access to a collection of audio dramatisations of plays and stories by leading American women writers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries." (Intute: Arts and Humanities)

Guides

Creating a Bibliography
Research Commons leads you to the section of Creating a Bibliography, where Bibliographic Citation Format and Sample Bibliography give examples of how to cite properly.

NoodleBib
An online tool to help you create your bibliography.