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Questions? Contact Sara Swanson (704-894-2157).
Finding Books
(Both literary and critical texts)
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records.
To see electronic books held by Davidson, see ebrary, a collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It covers all subject areas and includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
For a list of helpful reference materials owned by Davidson College, click here.
Finding Articles
Starting Points| Literary Criticism | Other Databases
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
- Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
- Literary Criticism
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
(1920 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literatures in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing.
- Gale Literary Databases. Gale, 2001- .
Includes:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
- MLA International Bibliography
(1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
- Other Databases
- Essay & General Literature Index
(1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
- JSTOR
Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
- Project Muse
Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Reference Works
Reference Universe| General Literature Guides | Critical Theory | Information About Authors
- Reference Universe
Don't know where to begin? Try Reference Universe, an index of the indexes in many of the library's reference books and e-books. Reference Universe will tell you which titles contain information on your topic.
- General Literature Guides
- The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Ian Ousby. Rev. ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Reference R 928 C178
- The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. 2 vols. New York: Columbia UP, 2007.
Reference R 809.2 C726
- The Columbia Guide to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Ed. Blanche H. Gelfant. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Reference R 813 C726
- The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Eds. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Reference R 820.3 C762
- Credo Reference
A collection of online reference books, including a selection of literature resources, such as The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English 3rd ed., The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature.
- Critical Survey of Poetry. Ed. Philip Jason. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003.
Reference R 809.1 C934
- Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Ed. Charles E. May. 2nd rev. ed. 7 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2001.
Reference R 809.3 C934 2001.
- A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms. Edward Quinn. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Reference R 803 Q7d
- A Dictionary of Literary Devices. Bernard Dupriez. Trans. Albert W. Halsall. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1991.
Reference R 803 D943g-T
- Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret et al. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Reference R 803 D5541
- Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth-Century. Ed. Eric L. Haralson. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
Reference R 928.1 E561
- A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Reference R 803 H747h9
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.
Reference R 809.1 P957 1993
- Oxford Companions
- The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Ed. James D. Hart. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
Reference R 810.3 O898c6
- The Oxford Companion to Candian Literature. Eds. Eugene Benson and William Toye. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
Reference R 810.3 O981 1997
- The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Reference R 820.3 H34o6
- The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Welch. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Reference R 820.9 O981
- The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Eds. Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
Reference R 820.3 O981
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Ed. Jenny Stringer. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Reference R 820.3 O98
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. 5 vols. New York: Oxford, 2006.
Reference R 820.3 O982
- The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices. William Packard. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Reference R 803 P119p
- A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. Ed. Erin Fallon et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Reference R 809.3 R286
- Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
- Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003.
- Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary: A Compendium to More than 500 Literary, Critical, and Theatrical Movements. Ed. Helen Anderson and Jay P. Pederson. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Reference R 809.9 T971
- Critical Theory
- The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
Reference R 801.95 M975b
- Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism. Ed. Chris Murray. New ed. 2 vols. London: Firtzroy Dearborn, 1999.
Reference R 801.95 E56
- A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. Jeremy Hawthorne. 4th ed. London: Arnold, 2000.
Reference R 801.95 H399g4
- The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Grodon et al. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.
Reference R 801.95 J65 2005.
- The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory. David Macey. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Reference R 801.95 M142p
- Information About Authors
Note: Search the Library Catalog for reference works about specific authors; try a subject keyword search for an author's name and limit your search by material type to "reference resources."
- American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1999-2002.
Reference R 920.073 A512
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003-.
- Critical Survey of Drama. Ed. Carl Rollyson. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003.
Reference R 809.2 C934
- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes:
- Contemporary Authors
- The Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Feminist Writers
- Scribner's American Writers
- Scribner's British Writers
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 2004.
Reference R 920 N2111
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