Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights in Context

Alderman Library Visit

 

 

VIRGO

1.Browse VIRGO for subjects:

Do a FIRST WORDS SUBJECT search on

            Bronte Emily

 

2.To do a KEYWORD search in VIRGO

            wuthering heights

            Bronte and publishing

            Bronte and publish$

            Bronte and (publish$ or author$ or serial$)

 

3.To Browse the stacks (either in person or in VIRGO with a Call Number Search)

PR4162 – editions

PR4168 – biography

PR4169 – criticism

 

 

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

4.To find electronic texts in VIRGO

Select “Ebooks, etc” Search from the top of the blue sidebar under “Search Virgo” and do an author search, e.g.

            Emily Bronte

For texts on the Etext server you can browse/read the whole text or search texts word for word:

·download the whole text and the use the find function in your browser.  OR

            ·choose “All on-line databases”; “English”; “Modern English Collection” (for most)

            ·”Search all the texts”

            ·put in your search and constrain by author or title, e.g. word: wild and author: bronte

For texts not on the etext server, there will be other specific instructions.

 

5.LION - Literature Online       (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

One stop shopping for primary and secondary sources in literature.

            Wuthering Heights

 

 

INDEXES TO SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES

6.MLA International Bibliography, 1963-.  (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Covers the subject of literature and language.  Scholarly periodical articles, books, chapters in books, etc.   Also included in #9 Literature Resource Center.

Bronte and sexuality

            Bronte and (disability or madness)

Bronte  and (mad* or sick*  or insane*)

 

 

 

 

7.Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920-.  (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Covers the subject of English literature and language.  Scholarly periodical articles, books, chapters in books, and book reviews.  Suprisingly little duplication with the MLA.  Also included in #10 LION.

 

8.Expanded Academic Index  (InfoTrac OneFile) (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Very general.  Scholarly and more popular journals.  Some Full Text.  1980-present.

            Wuthering Heights

 

9.Literature Resource Center       (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

One stop shopping for secondary sources in literature.  Includes MLA Bibliography (# 6) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (#18 )

            Emily Bronte

 

10.LION - Literature Online       (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

One stop shopping for primary and secondary sources in literature.  Includes Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (# 7)

            Emily Bronte

 

 

NEWSPAPERS

11.Lexis-Nexis (VIRGO Databases; Newspaper Articles)

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Wonderful source for full text of current Newspapers and other media, including the New York Times, London Times, Irish Times. Find Book reviews, articles, interviews, etc. Truncation=*

                        Wuthering Heights

 

12.The Times, Digital Archive 1785-1985       (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Search the full text of The Times (London) including articles, advertisements, and picture captions. See an image of either just the article or the full page.

                        Origin of species

                        Emily Bronte

 

 

CONTEMPORARY PERIODICAL COVERAGE

13.Periodicals Contents Index, 1770-1993 ((VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Search for articles and book reviews in over 4000 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770-1995. Includes full text of articles in some 300 journals and links to the humanities and social science titles from JSTOR.

                        Wuthering Heights

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

14.Dictionary of Literary Biography (VIRGO Databases / References Sources / Biographical)

Biographical bibliographical critical essays.  Also included in #9 Literature Resource Center.

            Emily Bronte

 

 

 

15.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  (VIRGO Databases / References Sources / Biographical)

Biographies of British persons from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century.

            Emily Bronte

            Charles Darwin

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

16.Encyclopedia Britannica.  AE5 .E363  (current & 1910) http://searcheb.com

                        Great Britain

 

17.Oxford English Dictionary. (OED) 2d ed. http://etext.virginia.edu/oed.html

NEW Third Edition: http://dictionary.oed.com/

                        Wuthering Heights

                        [first known usage]

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

18.To find a bibliography (listing) of all criticism written about an author do a VIRGO KEYWORD SUBJECT search.  Many of these will be annotated.

Emily Bronte and bibliography

 

19.Crump. Charlotte and Emily Brontë : a reference guide.  Z8122 .C78  (Ald Ref)

Critical reception and other secondary sources. v. 1. 1846-1915--v. 2. 1916-1954--v. 3. 1954-1983.

 

 

FILM

20.Film Index International  (VIRGO Databases / Journal Articles)

Information on films and film personalities from the early silents to the present: casts, credits, brief plot summaries, lists of books, articles, and reviews.

            Wuthering Heights

 

21. Internet Movie Database  http://www.imdb.com

Amazing filmography of movies, actors, directors, producers, genres, etc. Includes several supplemental databases including movie reviews, quotations, industry statistics, historic movie events, movie glossary, and more. Allows for extended searching.

 

22. The Movie Review Query Engine  http://www.mrqe.com

Search engine with links to over 300 commercial and personal movie review sites from the New York Times to Mr. Cranky. Allows for complex searching. Many reviews date back to the 1980s.

 

Use Infotrac SearchBank and Lexis Nexis for articles and reviews of the current  film scene going back to 1990 or so, and coming right up to the present.

 

CONCORDANCES 

23.To get a listing of how many times each word in a work is used and in what context, do a VIRGO search for concordances:

            Bronte and concordances

 

 

ARCHIVES

24. The Brontë manuscripts  MicroFilm 5859 (Alderman 3rd fl. Periodicals Rm)

Includes Guide.  The literary manuscripts and correspondence of the Brontë family from the Brontë Society collection at Haworth Parsonage and the British Library, London.

 

 

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

25. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/

Harrison Small Library

Hours: 9:00am-9:00pm Monday-Thursday and 9:00am to 5:00pm Friday-Saturday.

Extraordinary collection of unpublished materials, e.g. diaries, letters, manuscripts; plus rare and valuable published works, including first editions of most significant American literature.

All of their holdings are searchable in VIRGO and your search can be limited to Special Collections, or more specifically, to Manuscripts.

 

 

WEBSITES

26. Victorian Web  http://www.victorianweb.org/

Literature, History, and Culture in the Age of Victoria.

 

 

STYLE MANUALS

27.MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.  PN147.G444 1998 (Ald Ref Desk)

 

28.MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web. http://www.mla.org/style_faq4

 

 

Karen Marshall * Alderman 511* 982-2677 * kmarshall@virginia.edu * June 2005

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