American+Literature

ü  The **OPAC** (online catalog), the books on reserve and the 800’s in the Reference area

ü  From **the Gale databases: The Twayne’s Authors Series** URL: [] ** NoodleTools Note: ** Cite articles in Twayne’s in NoodleTools as a book…online…special section of a book…subscription database…Gale Twayne’s Authors Series…then chose “basic section” for which ever chapter/section you used. For Name and City of library where you retrieved the information, use “Lake Placid Middle/High School Lib.”

ü ** Social Issues Research Services (SIRS) Knowledge Suite: Renaissance database ** URL: [|http://sks.sirs.com] ** NoodleTools Note: ** Most of the sources here are journal, magazine and newspaper articles (each with their own citation style) that were previously printed. When you cite them, choose your format (journal, magazine or newspaper)…online…article… previously published in print form…subscription database…SIRS Renaissance...URL. For Name and City of library where you retrieved the information, use “Lake Placid Middle/High School Lib.”

URL: [] Search Tip: choose Advanced Search and then Scholarly Articles ü **  SOME BOOKS:  ** REF 808 AME __American Writers: a Collection of Literary Biographies__. New York: Scribner, [1974-81]. REF 810.9 LIT __Literary History of the United States: Bibliography__. New York: Collier-Macmillian Limited, 1963. REF 809 COU Cournos, John. __Famous Modern American Novelists__. N.Y: Dodd, 1952. 810.9 LEA Leary, Lewis Gaston. __American Literary Essays__. New York: Crowell, 1960. 813.54 RAC __Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird__. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. 813.029 HEM E__rnest Hemingway__. New York: Chelsea House, 1985. 921 HEMINGWAY Ferrell, Keith. __Ernest Hemingway: the Search for Courage__. New York: M. Evans, 1984. 813 WEE Weeks, Robert P. __Hemingway: a Collection of Critical Essays__. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1962. 813.5 MCC McCarthy, Paul. __John Steinbeck__. New York: F. Ungar, 1980. 921 STEINBECK O'Connor, Richard. John Steinbeck. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 813.52 WAT Watt, Frank William. __John Steinbeck__. New York: Grove Press, 1962.
 * ProQuest Database**
 * NoodleTools Note**: see SIRS above

ü **  SOME WEBSITES:  ** Summary, themes, quotes, plot analysis, study questions, characters, literary devices, Did You Know?, best of the Web, opinions [] [] [] An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular
 * Shmoop Literature Guide**
 * Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism collection **
 * Literary History.com **

[] A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. This site is not intended to be an exhaustive index of all literary resources; rather it functions both as a descriptive meta-index to all things literary and as a review of the most important lists of literary resources and collections of literary links that proliferate on the Internet.
 * A Literary Index: Making Sense of Literature on the Internet **

[] A bit dated (2006) list of literary resources, but if you search under the author’s name you will find some really great sources.
 * Literary Resources on the Net **