English Honors
Sources for Research
as prepared by
Jerry Seay
R.S.S. Library

English Subject Guide
http://www.cofc.edu/library/english.html
A service of the R.S.S. Library. Sources for general research for English.

Library sources are available both in paper and electronic formats. The library catalog is available online. Databases and indexes are available both online and via CD-ROM's loaded on certain PC's.

Paper Sources

Background / Basic Information

Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

Books
Use online catalog

Journals
Use Databases & Indexes

Web Sites
Each web site should be initially taken for what it is: raw, unfiltered, unprocessed information of questionable quality that anybody (qualified or not) can put up on the Internet. Though many sites exist that have good content and good quality, many more exist merely for the purpose of exacting money from your pocket, swaying your opinion, or extolling the virtues of the Web Pages maker. Unlike a published book or journal that goes through a timely process of "filtering" and critical review before it is published, a web page can be put up overnight by anybody with access to a web server. It is up to YOU to do the filtering and critical review. Note these basic questions when reviewing web pages: Critically reviewing a web page.

The following web pages are relatively good sources for information. However, each page should be critically evaluated using the criteria in "Critically reviewing a web page" before being used as a source.

Victorianism:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
The Victorian Web is the WWW translation of Brown University's Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature.

Yahoo:Arts:Humanities:Literature
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/

Shakespeare and Elizabethan LINKS
http://www.elizreview.com/links.htm
These are put up by the "Elizabethan Review"

Yahoo:Arts:Humanities:Literature:Periods and Movements http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Periods_and_Movements/

Yahoo:Arts:Humanities:Literature:Genres:Literary Fiction:Authors http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/

Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/index.html
Site for full text works of fiction, nonfiction, reference, and poetry

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
"Fine literature digitally re-published." The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs andpeople can easily read, use, quote, and search.

Texts & Contexts
http://paul.spu.edu/~hawk/t&c.html
Dedicated to the expansion of knowledge regarding influential texts and authors throughout history. It attempts to provide a wide range of authors. Note, however, that nowhere is listed the qualifications of the authors. You may be surprised at what business the authors are actually in. Look carefully.

This page produced by Jerry Seay of the Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston.
Last update: Jan 29, 1998
URL: http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/documents/englishonors.html