Barnard College Library Research Guide

BC3171x: The Novel
Professor Maire Jaanus

Reading by Morisot

The Romantic-Realistic Novel
and its Cultural, Historical,
and Philosophic Context

"Reading" (1870) by Berthe Morisot
Scan by artchive.com Mark Harden


Contents
Works Available On-line | Film Versions in the Barnard or Columbia Libraries
Starting Your Research | Using Reference Books to Find Background Information
Using CLIO | Using Indexes | Using the World Wide Web
Classes on Research Skills

WORKS AVAILABLE ON-LINE

There are several Web sites with collections of on-line books:
   Bartleby.com
   Bibliomania
   Concordance.com  Full text along with searchable word indexes
   Internet Public Library
   The Reading Room at the University of Maryland
   The On-Line Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania
   Project Gutenberg

The following is a list of books on the syllabus with links to on-line versions:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė: Bibliomania version | Brontė Sisters Web                                         

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: Project Gutenberg version                                                            

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Bibliomania version                                                                

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: Bibliomania version                                                                  

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky:  Christian Classics Ethereal Library | Bibliomania version           

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: Bibliomania version                                      
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy:  Christian Classics Ethereal Library | Bibliomania version                              


WORKS WITH VIDEO VERSION AVAILABLE AT BARNARD OR COLUMBIA

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė
   1939 feature film with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon: BARNARD MEDIA PR4172 .W7 1939, and      
    BUTLER MEDIA PR4172 .W7 1985g                                                       

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
   1951 Disney animated version: BARNARD MEDIA PR4611.A72 D4 1983                                 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
   1946 feature film with John Mills, Alec Guiness, Jean Simmons: BARNARD MEDIA PR4560 .A1 1946, and  
    BUTLER MEDIA PR4560 .A1 1998                                                       
   BBC television version: BARNARD MEDIA PR4560 .A1 1988g                                                

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
   None

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
   None

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy  
   1998 A&E television version: BARNARD MEDIA PR4748 .A1 1998g

Tess
   1980 movie by Roman Polanski with Nastassia Kinski: BARNARD MEDIA PR4748 .A1 1985, and
    BUTLER MEDIA VIDEO PR4748 .A1 1985

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
   None                                                 

STARTING YOUR RESEARCH

When you start your research for a paper, if you have difficulty choosing a topic or coming up with a good research question, feel free to ask for help from a reference librarian at the library.  You can come to the Reference Desk on the second floor, call 854-3953, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu, or request a one-on-one consultation using the form at http://www.barnard.edu/library/forms/consult.htm.                    
You might also find useful the following sources of help on the Web.  These On-line Writing Labs offer help with brainstorming for ideas, writing an outline, dealing with writer’s block, and so on:
   Princeton University Writing Center
   MIT Writing Center
   Brown University Writing Center
   Purdue University Writing Lab


FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON YOUR TOPIC USING REFERENCE BOOKS

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books can provide useful background information and bibliographies that can lead you to relevant books and articles.  The reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the second floor.

Title Barnard Reference
Call Number

General      

Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory       

PN41 .C83 1998    

Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs                   

PN43 .D48 1988    

Encyclopedias  

Charles Dickens A to Z                                         

PR4580 .D38 1998 

The Columbia History of the British Novel                   

PR821 .C65 1994  

Encyclopedia of the Novel                                      

PN41 .E487 1998  

A Jane Austen Encyclopedia                                    

PR4036 .A28 1998    

The Oxford Companion to German Literature             

PT41 .G3 1997   

Guides and Handbooks   

Handbook of Russian Literature                               

PG2940 .H29 1985  

The Lewis Carroll Handbook                                

Z8234.8 .W72    

Reference Guide to Russian Literature                   

PG2940 .R43 1998g 

Criticism         

NCLC: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism       

PN761 .N56      

Biographical     

British Writers            

PR85 .B688       

DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography             

PS129 .D5         

European Writers            

PN501 .E9 1983  

Bibliographies 

Charlotte and Emily Bronte: An Annotated Bibliography  

Z8122 .P37        

The Stature of Dickens; a Centenary Bibliography        

Z8230 .G65   

 

USING CLIO TO FIND BOOKS AND JOURNALS

You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University LibraryWeb.
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.  Use the card catalogs for older materials.   There are two search interfaces, the Web version, which is in development, and the Telnet version.  Click here for the CLIO Quick Guide for help with searching.  Most of the materials in CLIO are classified by subject according to the Library of Congress Classification Schedule.

Other Library Catalogs

Please note that Teachers’ College, Union Theological Seminary and the Law Library’s holdings are not listed in CLIO and that they have their own online library catalogs.  CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library.  There are links to these in the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, available from the  Electronic Reference Tools list.

 

USING INDEXES TO FIND CITATIONS TO PERIODICAL ARTICLES

On the Electronic Reference Tools list on the Barnard Library homepage, there are over 200 indexes, databases and catalogs which can enable you to find citations for relevant journal articles and books, and also the full text of many articles. 
  • Read the descriptions of the indexes to find out which ones might be the most useful for your research. 
  • Search by keyword or subject to find some germane citations
  • In CLIO, look up the titles of the journals in which the articles appear (in the title index screen, the title of a journal is followed by "serial")
  • If you are using the Telnet version of CLIO, use the "hol" command to examine the libraries holdings and find out where the volume you want is located.

The indexes and databases listed below will probably be the most relevant to your research.

Humanities Abstracts:
  • Citations and abstracts for articles, book reviews, etc. in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and world history and literature, published from 1984 to the present
  • Start with a simple keyword search to find some good subject headings - here called "descriptors"
  • If it says at the top of the record, "FirstSearch indicates your institution owns the item" you still need to check CLIO
  • To e-mail results to yourself: click on the "E-mail" button at the top


MLA Bibliography
  • Citations for articles, dissertations, books etc. on literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, published from 1963 to the present
  • Since dissertations may be harder to find than articles in journals, it's probably best to limit your search to articles


JSTOR
  • A full text database of articles from over 60 scholarly journals, from each journal’s first issue up to 3 to 5 years ago
  • Searching in the title is the most precise and restrictive search, while a full text search will often find too many irrelevant articles.  There is no way of searching by subject, and few articles have abstracts.
  • You can print articles - use Adobe Acrobat Economy Print, rather than JPrint
  • You cannot e-mail results


ProQuest Direct
  • Full text database of articles from newspapers and scholarly journals
  • Select scholarly journals by clicking on PA Research II Periodicals and PA Research II--Peer Reviewed, then click on Continue at the top


Women's Resources International
  • Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism, published from 1972 to the present
  • If you use a Biblioline Professional advanced search, you can specify a geographic area, time period, etc.



FINDING INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Subject Guides to the Internet on the Barnard and Columbia Libraries Homepages
Both the Barnard and Columbia Library homepages have lists of recommended Web pages on various topics.  These make a  good place to start with finding information on the World Wide Web.

The Subject Guides to the Internet page, available from the Barnard Library homepage, includes subject guides on art, history, literature, politics, ready reference, science, theater, women's studies, etc.  

The Selected Subject Guides & Resources page is available from the Columbia University LibraryWeb page (under Reference).

Some useful Web pages for this course are:

Click here for a Quick Guide to Web Searching and Evaluating Information from the Web



OTHER LIBRARY SERVICES

Demonstrations of Library Resources and Research Skills
Barnard Library offers classes on CLIO, the World Wide Web, and online databases and indexes on Thursdays at 11:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m., and Fridays at 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.  Come to the Reference Desk on the second floor.

Research Skills Worksheet
Click here for a Research Skills Worksheet to print out which will enable you to test and improve your library research skills. 

Consultation with a Reference Librarian
Click here to complete a form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor.  We'll be happy to help you find additional information.
Contact a reference librarian: e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953.


Last Modified 04/06/01
Lois Coleman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library