Showing posts with label preliminary bibliography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preliminary bibliography. Show all posts

Sunday, September 26, 2010

My Personal Cheat Sheet

This post is mostly for my own personal reference, so feel free to skip over it.


Sources from my preliminary bibliography, sorted.


That I own:

  1. Felski, Rita.  Literature after Feminism.
  2. Baym, Nina, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, and Arnold Krupat, eds.  The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volume A.
  3. Blecki, Catherine L., and Karin A. Wulf, eds.  Milcah Martha Moore's Book: a Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America.
  4. Davidson, Cathy N.  Revolution and the Word: the Rise of the Novel in America.
  5. Gilbert, Sandra M., Susan Gubar.  “Infection in the Sentence: The Women Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship.”  The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.



That I checked out from UCF’s Library:

  1. Shields, David S.  Civil Tongues & Polite Letters in British America.
  2. Stabile, Susan M.  Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. (Inter Library Loan)
  3. Brayman, Hackel H, and Catherine E. Kelly.  Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
  4. Hayes, Kevin J.  A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf.



That I have as a PDF file:

  1. "Introduction". American Women Prose Writers to 1820 (DLB).  Ed. Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto, and Amy E. Winans.
  2. Blau, Mellinda.  "The Relationship Revolution: The Internet as a New Way of Life."
  3. Logan, Lisa M.  “The Importance of Women to Early American Study: A Social Justice.”
  4. Mulford, Carla.  “Writing Women in Early American Studies: On Canons, Feminist Critique, and the Work of Writing Women into History”
  5. Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence."
  6. Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.  "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America."
  7. Cowell, Pattie.  “Knowledge and Power: Cultural Scripts in Early America.”
  8. Wulf, Karin Anne.  A Marginal Independence: Unmarried women in colonial Philadelphia.
  9. Norton, Mary Beth. "Getting to the Source: Hetty Shepard, Dorothy Dudley, and Other Fictional Colonial Women I Have Come to Know Altogether Too Well."
  10. Eagleton, Mary. "Adrienne Rich, Location and the Body."
  11. Fox, Catherine Olive-Marie. "Be-Coming Subjects: Reclaiming a Politics of Location as Radical Political Rhetoric."
  12. Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien. "Matrophobic Sisters and Daughters: The Rhetorical Consequences of Matrophobia in Contemporary White Feminist Analyses of Maternity."
  13. Nestle, Joan. "Wars and Thinking."
  14. Swain, Tania Navarro, and Marie-France Depeche. "Unveiling Relations: Women and Women-On Caroll Smith-Rosenberg's Research."
  15. Rupp, Leila J. "Women's History in the New Millennium: Caroll Smith-Rosenberg's 'The Female World of Love and Ritual' after Twenty-Five Years."
  16. Davis, Gayle R. "Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America."
  17. Kurjiaka, Susan. "Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America."
  18. Purcell, Sarah. "Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America."
  19. Thornton, Tamara Plakins. "Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America."
  20. Sheumaker, Helen. "Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America."
  21. Colwill, Elizabeth. "Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845."
  22. Curran, Stuart. "Dynamics of Female Friendship in the Later Eighteenth Century."
  23. Wenner, Wendy J. "'A Viper and Engine of the Devil': The Violent Woman and Female/Female Violence in Eighteenth-Century Fiction."
  24. O'Driscoll, Sally. "The Lesbian and the Passionless Woman: Femininity and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century England."
  25. Yerkes, Amy Marie. "Satire, Ideology, and Dissonance in American Revolutionary Culture."
  26. Reese, William S. "Americana in the Paul Mellon Bequest."
  27. Bolz, Barbara Anne. "Silence and Voices: Individualism, Communities, and the Making of Agency in American Quaker Women's Autobiographies."
  28. Tarter, Michele Lise. "Sites of Performance: Theorizing the History of Sexuality in the Lives and Writings of Quaker Women, 1650-1800."



You want to know a secret?  Okay, so classifying this as a secret is melodramatic, but either way, I’ll tell you.  When you’re looking up articles/book chapters in MLA or America: History and Life, you can add them into your folder (I’m assuming you can do this for any database on EBSCO).  Then, click on view folder’s contents.  You can email yourself all the citations (you have to specify MLA format), and for any of the selected sources in your folder that are available as a PDF file, it will also email you that file.  So while I was picking sources for my preliminary bibliography, for each keyword search I did, I emailed myself the search history (as an .html file), the MLA citations, and any PDF files that were available.  I labeled each email’s subject line with the appropriate search information.  Then, this afternoon, I went through all those emails and downloaded and renamed the PDF files to reflect the author and title of the article chapter.


If I have a book checked out from UCF that you think might have information about your project, just get in touch with me.  You’re more than welcome to photocopy the sections applicable to your project. 


Now of course comes the hard part – reading through the sources, and figuring out which ones to keep and which to discard.  Plus, there are some sources from my preliminary bibliography that I need to hunt down the full article as a PDF file, or see if they’re in the library at UCF.  But that’s another list for another day, hopefully tomorrow.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Preliminary Bibliography

The assignment from Dr. Logan:  


Using the MLA International Bibliography and America: History and Life databases at the UCF Library, develop a preliminary bibliography of secondary scholarly sources in the discipline of literature (with contextual sources from historians).  Use MLA documentation style.  Include keywords and searches used to develop this bibliography.  Consult a reference librarian if you encounter difficulties. 
[Submitted: 24 September 2010]

I have included a lot of sources which will (probably) end up being discarded during a closer look at each journal article and/or book.  However, I wanted to include them all because, one, I spent a lot of time looking them up, and two, it provides with me a wide range of possibilities for my project.  This preliminary bibliography will serve as a valuable resource for my project, and while I know I’ll end up spending more time on research, this guide should help me narrow and focus my search.

There were no results for female homosocial, and none applicable to my topic for homosocial in MLA, which is unsurprising considering its absence in the Library of Congress Subject Headings book.

Using MMMB in MLA for various options yielded just the modern edition.  Using MMMB as keyword term in America: History & Life yielded two already recorded book reviews of the modern edition, and one article about her published Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive text.

I included book reviews because I want to know how the book/article was received by the scholarly audience, or to quote Dr. Anna Jones, to see if they “bought it.”  I also included dissertations because of their works cited, which could potentially yield a lot of valuable sources.  I especially want to track down Susan Stabile’s dissertation, not just the abstract, which will require an ILL because the full text is not available via ProQuest.  When I included sources listed in the books I have already checked out of the UCF library, I only looked in the introductions due to time constraints.  Sometimes a source would appear in multiple locations (a book’s introduction, MLA and America: History & Life); I merely recorded it the first time I encountered it rather than list unnecessary duplications.




The categories of my preliminary bibliography at a quick glance:
  • Recommendations from: Dr. Logan, and Jessica Workman.
  • Found on my own
  • From my previous research on The Factory Girl


    • From Civil Tongues & Polite Letters in British America, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf, Literature After Feminism, The Madwoman in the Attic, Memory’s Daughters, and Reading Women.


      • Using of Marty Beth Norton as author in MLA
      • Using Adrienne Rich as the subject term in MLA
      • Using Carroll Smith-Rosenberg in America: History & Life
      • Using Carroll Smith-Rosenberg in MLA
      • Using Susan Stabile as author in MLA
      • Using Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as the author in WorldCat


        • Using commonplace book in America: History & Life
        • Using commonplace book as subject (1700-1799) in MLA
        • Using Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. & N.J.) (1700-1799) in America: History & Life
        • Using female friendship in literature (1700-1799) in MLA
        • Using female-female relations (1700-1799) in MLA
        • Using lesbianism in literature (1700-1799) in MLA
        • Using literature and revolutions, (subject literature: American) (1700-1799): in MLA
        • Using Manuscripts, American in America: History & Life
        • Using Manuscripts, American (1700-1799) as subject in MLA
        • Using Manuscript studies, American (1700-1799) as subject in MLA
        • Using Quaker women (1700-1799) in America: History & Life
        • Using Quaker women (1700-1799) in MLA