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THE UN-VIRTUOUS REPUBLIC: Tropes of Transgression in the Early American Novel

Resources for ENGL 4385

Dr. Erben's ENGL4385 site [Syllabus, Assignments, etc.]

Essential Resources

• America: History & Life
       Index to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada
  
  
• American Periodical Series (APS) Online
       Full-text of 1,100+ periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900
  
  
• American writers before 1800 : a biographical and critical reference guide / Levernier and Wilmes
       3 volumes / INGRAM LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION: PS185 .A4
  
  
• Book Review Digest
       multiple volumes, 1905+ / INGRAM LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION:Z1219 .C96
  
  
• Early American Fiction @ University of Virginia
       Collection includes 886 volumes (136 authors) covering the period 1789-1850. Also includes 199 manuscript items and 124 non-text items (photos, engravings, etc.).
  
  
• Early Americas Digital Archive
       Collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820
  
  
• Digital Library of Georgia
       Georgia history and culture in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials
  
  
• Dust Jackets From American and European Books, 1926-1947
       More than 2,000 original specimens of book jackets from trade books acquired by the New York Public Library
  
  
• Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
       Definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including literature, music, religion, and much more.
  
  
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
       Primary source collection with full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early years of the 19th century
  
  
• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
       Full-text from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicling historical events, people, places, and ideas that have shaped America
  
  
• Library of Southern Literature (Univ.of NC)
       Full-text for a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924
  
  
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
       10 volumes / INGRAM LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION:Z6620 .U5 N3
       Locate manuscript collections in major American libraries; there are also many other similar indexes in the same area of the Reference Stacks
  
  
• WorldCat
       This database can help you determine whether the work you have chosen has been republished and is therefore not a good choice for the Fiction Project.