Subject specialist
Zofia Lesinska, Ph.D.
lesinska@usc.edu
(213) 740 7373
NEWS for the English Department (click)
Research Consultations Spring 2008
LIVE CHAT with Literature Librarian
Wednesdays and Fridays 7 p.m.- 8 p.m. (click)
In-person: Doheny Reference Consultation Room
next to Circulation Desk:
Wednesday 2-4 p.m and by appointment.
Research Guides and Tools:
For Easy Remote (Off-Campus) Access to USC Electronic Resources, please FIRST log in at https://libproxy.usc.edu/login and then search our online resources.
* ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: First Step
* MORE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: Literature and Cultural Studies
GUIDES
* Nineteenth-Century Studies Guide
* MLA Style Documentation Guide
2008 FEATURED RESOURCES:
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection.
Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others. When trying to print
entire newspaper pages, you will need to tile them to make them legible given the differing paper size between newsprint and common office paper sizes
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 [Adam Mathew Digital]
The collection consists of original manuscripts from 15 major libraries, reproduced as greyscale facsimiles. All of the manuscripts have been subjected to detailed indexing by the Perdita Project.
This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. Thanks to the endeavours of the Perdita Project the valuable work of these “lost” women is being rediscovered. Adam Matthew Digital has now enhanced their path-breaking research by linking their catalogue descriptions with full digital facsimiles of many of the manuscripts in an exciting new resource.
The manuscripts in the site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations. The provision of a powerful searching facility, biographical and bibliographical resources, and contextual essays by academics working in the field, makes this an indispensable resource for students and researchers.
Virginia Company Archives [Adam Mathew Digital]
The project is made up of four constituent parts:
- Previously unpublished transcripts by Dr David Ransome of over 500 documents from the Virginia Company Archives. These will be fully searchable and are linked to the original manuscripts.
- A fully searchable text of The Records of the Virginia Company of London (4 vols, Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1906-1933).
- The complete Ferrar Papers from Magdelene College, Cambridge, together with a fully searchable listing linked directly to the manuscripts.
- An extensive contextual introduction to the Ferrar papers and a wide range of maps, illustrations and other works.
Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest-Chadwyck Healey product)
An archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It is a commercial counterpart to JSTOR (a product of nonprofit organization) and contains archival issues of journals, with a few titles going as far back as early nineteenth century.
C19: Nineteenth Century Index (Gale)
C19 Index draws on indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.
Click: Black Studies Center (Proquest)
combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
Click: The Historic Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2005 (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
provides full-text access to the most important African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles, from its founding through 2005. This acquisition greatly strengthens our electronic resource offerings in African-American studies,
particularly for Los Angeles.
Click Credo Reference
contains entries from 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Additionally, Credo Reference generates spatial conceptual maps.
Click: Theater in Video
contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This first release contains over 50 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Scholarly Journals Accessible Online
To access online journals in the field of Languages and Literatures,
1)
please click on the link Full text journals from database collections,
2) select <Languages and Literatures> under the pull-down menu entitled <Browse e-journals by subject>
Collections
The English and American Literature collection is located primarily in Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library. The collection in Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library supports teaching and research through the doctoral level and beyond. In addition, the Leavey Library collects literature in the area of English that supports undergraduate education, with special emphasis on the general education program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Both Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library and Leavey Library collections include fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as literary and cultural criticism. Overall, the collection supports learning, teaching, and research in the following areas:
- American Literature
- Literatures of Great Britain and the countries of the Commonwealth
- Irish Literature
- South African Literature
- Literary Criticism
The Special Collections (located in Doheny Memorial Library on the second floor) is a non-circulating resource that fulfills the additional role of preserving original and significant editions of works by selected authors (Thoreau, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and many of the moderns). Virtually complete collections of the published work of poets as dissimilar as Richard Wilbur and Charles Bukowski and much small press poetry from the west coast bring the holdings down to the present. Despite the emphasis on American writers, Special Collections hold many items of interest for those pursuing English studies. Important highlights of the Special Collections include:
- Early science fiction magazines
- The papers of realist writer Hamlin Garland
- Texts and theater ephemera from the Golden Age of Broadway
- Scholarly facsimiles of the Domesday Book, the Ellesmere Chaucer, Holinshed’s Chronicles, the Gentleman’s Magazine
- Early editions of Johnson, Locke, Darwin, Dickens, and Joyce
- Strong holdings of Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, and D.H. Lawrence