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Use these Reference databases to find and access articles in a variety of encyclopedias and subject dictionaries:
Selected Reference sources for your class
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec,and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
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- Uris Library Reference E 169.1 E624x 2001
- A 3-volume encyclopedia that attempts "to comprehend the ever-changing character and rich variety of American thought and expression." (Introduction) Includes articles on advertising, media, visual arts, and technology.
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1992.
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- Uris Library Reference HN 57 .E56 1992; also Olin Library Reference
- This 3-volume encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present various aspects of
American social history, including periods of social change, patterns of everyday life, family history and science,
medicine and technology.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1978- .
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- Uris Library Reference
PS 129 D55+; selected volumes in Olin Ref PS 129 D55+
- Also available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.
Provides biographical and critical material on major writers, including bibliographies of works by and about the authors.
- Fiora, Joseph M. and Lucinda H. MacKethan, eds. The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
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- Olin Library Reference PS261 .C55 2002 +
- Essays and bibliographies on everything from Literature of Mississippi to Elvis.
- Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. 5 vols. Detroit, MI : St. James Press, 2000.
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- Uris Library Reference E 169.1 S764x 2000
- Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Contains nearly 3,000 essays on topics in the areas of film, music, print culture, social life, electronic media, art and performance, with an emphasis on post-World War II America. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and often provide cultural context as well as factual information. Short bibliographies are appended to each.
- Literature Online (LION). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., c1999-.
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- A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources.
Includes articles, monographs, and dissertations from the Annual Bibliography of English Language and
Literature; full-text articles from literary journals (with links to JSTOR journals); and biographical information on widely studied authors.
- Literature Resource Center. [Farmington Hills, MI] : Gale Group, c1999-.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
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