Librarian
Wendel Cox
Contact:
180 Berry (Research & Instruction Services)
HB 6025 Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
HB 6025 Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Recommended Resources
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MLA International BibliographyThe most comprehensive index of scholarship in literature, language, folklore, film, new media, and rhetoric and composition. Covers articles in periodicals, books, and book chapters. Does not index book reviews.
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Literature Online (LION)Texts and criticism across vast spans of time and place.
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & CriticismFull-text database on critics, movements, and schools. Bibliographies appended in many instances.
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JSTORProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, biology, ecology, and other fields of the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
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ProQuest centralProquest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by ISBN: 0198715447Publication Date: 2015-07-14Clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma.
Highlighted Collections!
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)"[A] vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages."
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How to Cite
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MLA Handbook by Call Number: Baker-Berry Library, Reference LB2369 .G53 2016ISBN: 9781603292627Publication Date: 2016-04-01The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, the official guide to MLA format.
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The MLA Style CenterWriting resources from the Modern Languages Association (MLA), including a quick guide.
Dictionaries
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Oxford English DictionaryA complete text of the 2nd. ed. of the Oxford English dictionary with quarterly updates, including revisions not available in any other form.
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Dictionary of American Regional English (5 Vols.) by Call Number: Baker-Berry Reference PE2843 .D52 1985ISBN: 9780674047358Publication Date: 2012-03-20With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam's housecat to Zydeco. Like the first four volumes, the fifth is filled with words that reflect our origins, migrations, ethnicities, and neighborhoods.
Handwriting, Transcription, and Paleography
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The National Archives (UK): Paleography TutorialGuides and games for interpreting English-language handwriting, 1500-1800.
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Handwriting of the Twentieth Century, 2nd ed. by ISBN: 1841509914Publication Date: 2007The main purpose of this book is to create a historical record ... techniques are illustrated that may be useful for teachers today, while the ever-changing views of the stylists provide examples, as well as a warning, to those who plan for the future.
