HUM 497 Jane Eyre/Great Expectations
Ken Nolley, Professor

1. Library Catalogs

Willamette University Libraries Catalog

Orbis Cascade Alliance Summit catalog of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington

Worldcat search engine for library catalogs all over the world

2. Major Research Databases

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database.

Oxford English Dictionary: [OED] The online version of the 2nd edition of the classic dictionary.

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism: Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

MLA International Bibliography. Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore.

Project Muse: Provides online access to the full text of over 300 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, and more.

JSTOR: Provides access to the complete back files of more than 624 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s.

Historical Abstracts: Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

Readers Guide Retrospective. 1890 - 1982. Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.

Sociological Abstracts: Provides citations to articles in over 3000 journals covering sociology, social work and other social sciences.

3. Other Resources

Primary Sources:
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876
New York Times Historical

Websites:
The Dickens Project
The Victorian Web , includes pages on Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens
The Victorian Dictionary
Charles Booth and The Survey into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
Views of the Famine
Sherlockian.Net: England and the Victorian Era
Map of John Snow's London in 1859
Victorian Census Project

Criteria for Evaluating Web Resources

Image of Victorian Rooves London by Tony Wheeler, courtesy of Pics4Learning

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