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These awards were created to reward those students who take the time to develop a thoughtful, methodical, and scholarly approach to the research needed for their papers and projects, as well as to encourage students to develop good research techniques.
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This guide provides some useful starting places and strategies for doing research for this course. I'm happy to work with you on any aspect of your research, from developing a research question to finding, evaluating, and citing sources. Feel free to email me or make an appointment on my calendar. See my contact info on this page.
Trying some initial searches in SuperSearch can be a great way to begin to explore a topic from many angles across a variety of disciplines and types of sources. Start with a simple search and scan the results, paying attention to aspects of the topic that jump out at you or resonate with you.
Because SuperSearch contains so much content from so many different kinds of sources, the results can sometimes be overwhelming and hard to focus. At the same time, SuperSearch is also not comprehensive and can miss key sources. To search with more focus, precision, and depth, try some of the databases and other resources recommended below and on the other pages of this guide.
Handbook of British Romanticism (e-book) by 
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism by 
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (e-book)
An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age: British culture, 1776-1832
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (e-book)
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (e-book)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (e-book)
The Cambridge Companion to Byron by 
The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
The Cambridge Companion to Keats (e-book)
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by 
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Critical Terms for Literary Study (e-book)Biographies, topic overviews, reviews, and scholarly analysis of authors and works from all genres, eras, and regions of the world.
Annotated bibliographies for a variety of subject areas, including British & Irish Literature. An excellent resource for getting an overview of selected scholarly work on an author, period, genre, etc.
Biographies of people who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from ancient times to the present. Each short article is written by an expert scholar and concisely describes a person's life, accomplishments, and influence, citing relevant sources. Covers Roman-era Britain to 21st century; only deceased individuals are included.
Dates: 100 BCE-2020 CE
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Leading comprehensive dictionary of the English language across the world. Each entry lists a word's changing meanings (including current definitions and ones that are obsolete), and illustrates those changes with quotations from literary texts, news sources, and historical records.