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The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature [CREDO Reference]. Steven R. Serafin & Alfred Bendixen, editors.
Continuum, c2005.
Encyclopedia of Southern Literature. Mary Ellen Snodgrass,
ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 Sn52E
Literature (The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture, Vol.9). M.Thomas Inge, ed.
University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Main Level, Reference: R 975.00321 N42N
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Oxford African American Studies Center [Oxford U. Press]. A comprehensive online collection focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. This collection, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University, includes 7,500 articles from core reference works, over 1,000 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and over 100 maps that have been collected to enhance the reference content. Also included are over 100 charts and tables offering information on demographics, government, politics, business, labor, education and the arts.
Includes indexing and content from the following print resources:
• Africana
• African American National Biography (much content available, but still under development)
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
• Black Women in America, Second Edition
• Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Biography Resource Center [Thomson/Gale] 
Biography Resource Center includes biographies from Gale and St. James Press reference books, as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Includes searchable content from
Contemporary Authors Online,
Contemporary Novelists,
Contemporary Southern Writers, and
Feminist Writers.
The Companion to Southern Literature : Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan, editors;
Louisiana State University Press, c2002.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 C738C
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Richard Gray and Owen Robinson, editors,
Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection: 810.9975 C738C
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin, editors-in-chief. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.99287 Ox24O
American Women Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Carol Kort. Checkmark, 2001. Main Level, Reference: R 810.99287 K845A
American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Laurie Champion, ed.
Greenwood Press, 2000. Main Level, Reference: R 810.99287 Am35A
Biography Resource Center [Thomson/Gale]
Biography Resource Center includes biographies from Gale reference books and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people by name or personal facts [birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender] or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, eds. Greenwood Press, 1993.
Main Level, Reference: R 813.5409 C767C
Contemporary Southern Writers, Roger Matuz, ed. St. James Press, 1999.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 C767C2
Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, editors, Greenwood Press, 1987.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 F466F2
Modern American Women Writers. Elaine Showalter, consulting editor, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors.
Scribner, 1991. Main Level, Reference:
R 810.99287 M72M
Also check ThomCat & PASCALcat for books on specific individuals--search as SUBJECT, last name first.
CHRONOLOGIES
Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History. Cynthia J. Davis and Kathryn West. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Main Level, Reference:R 810.99287 D291W
Humanities: Documenting Sources [Research and Documentation Online], Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.
Writing Center, Presbyterian College
Citation styles, writing guides, and scheduling an appointment with a tutor.
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- SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings related to your topic:
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· Add * to the root of a word to truncate or expand a term (up to 5 additional characters)
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religio**= religion, religions, religiosity,
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welty AND
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toni morrison AND bluest eye
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(women OR female* ) AND (author* OR writer*) .
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If you need books in addition to those found at Thomason Library, try your search the PASCAL Catalog for books in other academic libraries in SC. Through PASCAL Delivers, you can order books online for delivery within 3-4 working days. This service for current PC students, faculty, and staff is a project of PASCAL- Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries. Borrowers will be notified by e-mail when requested items arrive at Thomason Library.
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WorldCat – A catalog of books and materials at libraries worldwide. Try searching here to find ALL books available on a topic. Materials available at Thomason Library are highlighted and others can be borrowed through ILL or searched in PASCALCAT.
Interlibrary Loan - ILL is available to PC students, faculty and staff in order to share resources between libraries. Check link for instructions.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research Co. (Library has 194 print volumes) Main Level, Reference: R 809.04 C767C
Critical Survey of Long Fiction (English language series). Frank N. Magill, ed.
Salem Press, 1983. (3 vols. plus supplement). Main Level, Reference:
R 809.3 M272C
Critical Survey of Short Fiction. (7 volumes) Charles E. May, ed. Salem Press, 2001. Main Level, Reference:
R 809.3 M272C2
Literature Resource Center[Thomson Gale]
Search the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, as well as full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database with one query. Contains full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals, critical essays, author biographies, and definitions of literary terms from Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
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Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]
EBSCOhost's journal and magazine articles from all academic disciplines.
MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOhost]
Published by the Modern Language Association, this database is the premier resource for literature and language topics. Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
JSTOR
An archive of over 350 full-text journals which can be searched at this site. Other PC databases link to JSTOR articles through Journal Finder, which guides the user to full-text articles. As an archive, JSTOR does not provide the most current three to five year issues of the journals as specified by the publishers in their agreements with JSTOR.
Project MUSE Basic Undergraduate Collection
Current and recent volumes of 112 core journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Georgia Review (note: Thomason Library has print volumes.
Electronic full-text not available, but indexing and abstracts are provided
in the MLA International Bibliography database.
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
MELUS Published by the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, MELUS features peer-reviewed articles, interviews and reviews encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of American literature past and present. Most issues are thematically organized for greater understanding of topics, criticism and theory in the total picture of American literature MELUS hopes to present.
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Mississippi Quarterly
Modern Fiction Studies
Southern Cultures
Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Southern Literary Journal
Southern Review
Studies in American Fiction
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Annina's Toni Morrison Page (Luminarium.org)
Includes pages for individual works, with reprinted essays, as well as links to interviews, biographies, etc.
Mississippi Writers Page "A multi-faceted Internet resource about writers in, from, or otherwise associated with the state of Mississippi. Presented by the Department of English at the University of Mississippi, it is designed both as an introduction to the diversity of literary talent in Mississippi and (we hope) as a source of accurate and timely information for the serious literary scholar. Parts of this web site are still under construction, but information continues to be added to the database."
See also: Mississippi Writers Page: Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty Centennial (1909-2009). Eudora Welty Foundation.
The Flannery O'Connor Collection Georgia College and State University.
"Lillian Smith." New Georgia Encyclopedia. Updated 9/2/2008. Includes biographical entry and bibliography of works about Smith.
LitWeb: American Women Writers' Index.
Southern Spaces, created at Emory University with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a peer-reviewed internet journal and scholarly forum that provides open access to essays, gateways, events and conferences, interviews and performances, and annotated web links on real and imaginary places and spaces of the American South.
Areas of emphasis: Arts and Media; Economy and Social Class; Environment; Foodways, Traditions, and Rituals; Gender and Sexuality; Geographies; Health; History; Literature and Language; Music; Politics and Government; Race and Ethnicity; Religion; Social Movements; and Sports and Leisure.
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