WR150: Early Modern and Modernist Minds

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

  • bowen, elizabeth 1899-1973
  • great britain history civil war 1642-1649
  • gunpowder plot 1605
  • london england history bombardment 1940-1941
  • middleton thomas d. 1627
  • newcastle margaret cavendish duchess of 1624?-1674
  • o'brien flann
  • shakespeare william 1564-1616 tempest
  • woolf virginia 1882-1941 political and social views
  • world war 1939-1945 england london
  • world war 1939-1945 great britain

You may also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

  • bowen, elizabeth 1899-1973
  • newcastle margaret cavendish duchess of 1624?-1674

 

REFERENCE WORKS.

Britannica Online 

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture

The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (British Isles)

Shakespeare Survey (61 volumes, including one on The Tempest)
 

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)

Academic OneFile

America: History and Life
Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography

Early English Books Online

Historical Abstracts

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective (1907-1984)

Humanities Full Text

JSTOR (Journal Storage) full-text collection of back issues of scholarly journals

MLA International Bibliography

Project Muse (full-text current scholarly journals)

Women Writers Online ( full text database of pre-Victorian women's writing in English, 1400-1850)

 

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Internet Archive (full text of books out-of-copyright)

WR150 Research Guide

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)

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