Resource Guide:
Henry James and Edith Wharton

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• The Center for Henry James Studies
• Hyper-concordance to Henry James Texts
• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
• The Edith wharton Society
• Edith Wharton Collection (Yale)

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• James, Henry, 1843-1916
• James, Henry, 1843-1916 - Criticism and interpretation
• James, Henry, 1843-1916 - Encyclopedias
• Warton, Edith, 1862-1937
• Ethan Frome - Critical Essays and Study guides
• New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• The Henry James Review (Project Muse)
• The Edith Wharton Review
• PMLA
• Modern Fiction Studies
• Modern Language Review
• Journal of Modern Literature
• American Literature
• American Quarterly
• New England Quarterly
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Twentieth-Century Literature
• American Literary Realism
• Studies in American Naturalism

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.