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English 488 (Significant Authors: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf): Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

To support a 3 unit, upper-division English course on three of the most famous female British authors

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MLA International Bibliography, core literature database

Project Muse, complete, full-text collection of scholarly journals in a variety of fields

Literature Resource Center, provides biographies and critical analysis of literary authors

Literature Online, a searchable database of key criticism and reference resources

Humanities Full Text, covers literature and other humanities

Proquest Databases, multiple databases in the arts and the humanities

Oxford Reference Online, an online reference library including dictionaries and encyclopedias

JSTOR, over six hundred core, scholarly journals

Reference Resources

Cambridge Companion to European Modernism, Pericles Lewis (editor), ECampus PN56 .M54 C355 2011

Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry, Alex Davis (editor), ECampus PR605 .M63 C36 2007

Cambridge Companion to English Literature, Joanne Shattock (editor)

Modernism:  A Short Introduction, David Ayers, ECampus PR478 .M6 A98 2004

The Concise Oxford dictionary of Literary Terms, (Chris Baldick), E. Campus Reference, PN41.C67 2004 (hardcopy)

English Literature of the 1920s, David Ayers (electronic)

Online Scholarly Resources

The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Twentieth Century)

Literature Network (Modernism)

Bartleby.com (Great Books online)

British Library: Timelines, Sources from History, British Library, London

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume XIII, online and searchable

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume IV, online and searchable

Internet Modern History Sourcebook, (Fordham University) -- note, see 19C Britain

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), free, full text, quality controlled and scholarly journals

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame

JURN, (free, full-text, and curated, academic search engine)

HathiTrust Digital Library, online digitized collections

Virginia Woolf Online

Woolf Online, Digital Archive of Woolf's, To The Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, United Kingdom

International Virginia Woolf Society, Toronto, Canada

Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Clemson University

Virginia Woolf Timeline

1882 - Virginia Woolf born

1914 - World War I

1915 -  "The Voyage Out"

1925 -  "Mrs. Dalloway"

1927 -  "To the Lighthouse"

1928 -  "Orlando"

1929 -  "A Room of Ones Own"

1931 - "The Waves"

1937 - "The Years"

1938 - "Three Guineas"

1939 - World War II

1941- Virginia Woolf dies


 

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Internet Archive, Digital Free Library

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