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Suggested Databases and Websites

WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
Search the contents of library catalogs worldwide to find books, journal titles & other materials not owned by Wellesley. If another library has it, this is the way to find it!

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by Michael Levenson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped the aesthetic and literary experiments of the movement.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel by Morag Shiach (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns which unite modernist fiction. They also show how modernist novels relate to other forms of art, and to the social and cultural context from which they emerged.

Reviews and Critical Analysis (Contemporary and Current)

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to publications on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore, from all cultures, 1963 to present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collection of key scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences, starting from the first issue but typically not the most recent 3-5 years.

Modernist Texts

Modernist Journals Project This link opens in a new window
The Modernist Journals Project has digitized little magazines from the 1890s to 1922, including The New Age, Poetry, The English Review, Scribner's, and The Egoist. Read the first publication of major poems, stories, and articles, in their original context alongside illustrations and advertisements.
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text page images of more than 460 British periodicals from 1681 to 1939, covering literature, philosophy, history, science, fine arts, and social sciences (British Periodicals Collections I-II)
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Index of over three million articles from more than 550 US and Canadian magazines.

Biographies

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographies, bibliographies and full-text critical analysis of authors from all genres and eras, including the contents of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Deceased people associated with Britain and the British Empire

Other Resources

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Citations to journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from the international scholarly literature of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, 1840 to present.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1955. Can be co-searched with America: History & Life
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history and culture articles, prehistory to present, written from 1955 to present.

Author Bibliographies (print)
Bibliographies are an often-overlooked resource for finding information on primary and secondary sources on authors. They can contain detailed listings and/or descriptions of an author’s manuscript and published works, contributions to periodicals, and published letters. Many have selected lists of contemporary and later reviews, indexed and annotated for ease of use. Search the catalog for “[Author Name] bibliography”.

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