Resource Guide:
Introduction to Literary Studies

• The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction
• Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America: An Anthology
• The American Short Story Cycle

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

• The British Library (Discovering Literature)
• Crash Course Literature
• Emily Dickinson Archive
• Jane Austen Society of North America
• Searchable Jane Austen
• The William Faulkner Society

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.

• Literary Criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics and Theory
• American Literature
• American Poetry
• English poetry -- Early modern
• English poetry -- 18th century
• English poetry -- 19th century
• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
• Wallace, David Foster 1962-2008
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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

• Academic Search Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MLA
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Scribner Writers Online
• Wiley Online Library

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.

• American Literature
• American Poet
• An Introduction to Literary Studies
• A William Faulkner Encyclopedia
• The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth
• Studies in English Literature
• Eighteenth-Century Studies
• English Literary History
• Essays in Literature
• Journal of Literary Studies
• Oxford Literary Review
• Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal

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.