Research Paper

English III

 

Mr. Calabro's Locality Research Paper and Additional Resources

 

The following resources will help you in your exploration of an American author, novel, play, etc.

 Online Databases

Student Resource Center Gold- Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
Opposing Viewpoints - Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

 

Scribner's Writers Series- Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner Print Series.
   
The Twayne Authors Series - Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
 

 

 Biography Resource Center 
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Gale's Literature Resource Center- This current, comprehensive online literature database contains rich critical, biographical, and contextual materials to support information literacy and critical thinking skills.  Researchers will find the information they need on authors and their works from all time periods and from around the world.


 Internet Sites 

American Literature (General)

Perspectives in American Literature: Contains information on Puritanism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, American Drama, Harlem Renaissance, and Post-Modernism. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.html

 Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism Collection: The Literary Criticism Collection brings together hundreds of critical and biographical sites with annotations. The collection is arranged by author, title, and nationality/literary period. http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

IPL Online Literary Criticism Guide: A great starting places for finding online critical writing. www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html

Library Spot - Literary Criticism: www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm

 UCSB - Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
Historical Perspective
America's Story from America's Library: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial

Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History: http://www.teacheroz.com/toc.htm

Internet Public Library - Colonial America: http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48454

American Revolution: http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/

Black American Literature in the United States 1734-1860: http://haughey.com/black_literature_Netscape.htm

Library of Congress - Benjamin Franklin In His Own Words- Printer & Writer: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-printer.html

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello: A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/sunrise/home.html

Women in the American Revolution: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/women_american_revolution/

African American Registry - Black Spirituals: http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1295/Coming_home_the_Black_spiritual

Eye Witness to History: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

The Daniel Webster Era: http://www.danielwebsterestate.org/DanielWebster.php

Digital History - Day by Day: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/daybyday/daybyday_menu.cfm

Academic American: http://www.academicamerican.com

Library of Congress - Guide to the War of 1812: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/1812/

Civil War Battles: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-battles.htm

PBS - American Masters - John James Audubon: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/audubon_j.html

Seneca Falls Convention: http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/SenecaFalls.htm

Walden Pond State Reservation:  http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/walden/thoreau.htm

American Educational History - A Hypertext Timeline: www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html

Native Americans and the Age of Incorporation - Reservation Life: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/Native/reservation.html

Harlem History: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/

Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Movement: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html

Science & Technology

American Literature & Science by Robert J. Scholnick http://books.google.com/

Science Fiction: The Early History http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html

Science Fiction Studies http://depauw.edu/sfs/biblio.htm

 Literary History: Edgar Allen Poe http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Poe.htm

 A Bibliography for Studying the Science Fiction Element in Poe’s Work http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/3/ketter3bib.htm

 Ray Bradbury http://www.raybradbury.com/

 Ray Bradbury Online http://www.spaceagecity.com/bradbury/

 Ray Bradbury Quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ray_bradbury.html

Female Authors & Themes

Emily Dickinson

Biography Online - Emily Dickinson: http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html

Poet Seers - Emily Dickinson: http://www.poetseers.org/early_american_poets/emily_dickinson/

Dickinson Electronic Archives: http://www.emilydickinson.org/

Modern American Poetry - Emily Dickinson: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/dickinson.htm

Literary History.com - Emily Dickinson: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/DICKINSON_E.HTM

Jane Austen

Internet Public Library - Jane Austen: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=aus-35

Austen.com: http://www.austen.com/

Jane Austen Information Page: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

 Jane Austen Novel - Pride and Prejudice Overview: http://www.findingjaneausten.com/pride-and-prejudice-novel.htm

Male Authors & Themes

Mark Twain

PBS Culture Shock: Born to Trouble - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/huck.html

The Reception of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in 1885: A Controversial Process: http://www.tinet.org/~fromeu/huckreception.pdf

University of Virginia Library: Reviews of Huckleberry Finn: http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucrevhp.html

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Online Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/76

Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target - The Functions of Criticism in Our Time: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=twfLrDgYRlUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=
%22huck+finn%22+criticism&ots=vUKkB8wth5&sig=dJMjfqz9A9VysoqWOSliLRaX-NY#PPP1,M1

American Masters - The American Novel: Mark Twain: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/twain.html

Mark Twain House- http://www.marktwainhouse.org/theman/index.shtml

PBS.org - Mark Twain: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/index.html

Ernest Hemingway

American Masters - Ernest Hemingway: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/hemingway_e.html

A Case of Identity - Ernest Hemingway: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/articles/hallengren/index.html

Ernest Hemingway: http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/

A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JLZFiayzJ-0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=hemingway,+criticism,+%22the+sun+also+rises%22&ots=jVfecVJXFK&sig=giUQtbs
 WWwxgYudJtwlm163AMyM#PPP1,M1

Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism - Ernest Hemingway: www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=hem-826

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure: http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/emerson.html

 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/index.html

 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Ralph Waldo Emerson: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/

Henry David Thoreau

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Henry David Thoreau: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/

Ralph Ellison

The Invisible Man

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/ralph-ellison/an-american-journey/587/

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rellison.htm

Transcendentalism

American Transcendentalism by Paul P. Reuben (esp. Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html

American Transcendentalism: www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/

American Transcendentalism Web - Dickinson: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/dickinson/index.html

The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism: www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/thoreau.html#1

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/fuller.html

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  - Transcendentalism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/

If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "The American Dream", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites about The American Dream as opposed to all of the sites containing the word American plus all of the sites containing the word Dream.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about  The American Dream, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma, followed by a space and you other search term.  For instance; if I wanted to find out about The American Dream in Death of a Salesman, I would enter the following:
     

     "The American Dream", "Death of a Salesman"

  5. Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     
  6. Be sure to critically evaluate Internet sources.  UC Berkley Library's Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask is an excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the following areas:
  7. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on the Internet, online databases, or print material, you must cite every resource you used.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

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