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ENG 302: 19th-Century British Literature Survey

Class Activity

Group activity document for today's class

Word Study

Oxford English Dictionary
Word meanings and origins.

Rhetorical Analysis

The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to the terms of classical and Renaissance rhetoric

Biographical Information

Search UP Library Search for: [author name] biography

Example: Jane Austen biography

British Authors of the Nineteenth Century
Call Number: Book Stacks PR451 .K8 1936

Publication History and Reception

WorldCat
Search the collections of libraries across the U.S., as well as some international libraries.

Google Books

Sources and Influences

The Times Digital Archive
Search the full text of The Times (of London) from 1785-2019. For similar content, see The Sunday Times Digital Archive (full text of The Sunday Times from 1822-2021).

Two tips for searching the Times Digital Archive:

Use the Publication date limiter (beneath the search boxes) to limit your search by date:

On the search results screen, change Sort by from Oldest to Relevance to bring the best articles (that mention your words most frequently and/or in the title of the article) to the top of the results:

Annotated Bibliography / Academic Essays about Literature

JSTOR
Full text multidisciplinary archive of core scholarly journals.
MLA International Bibliography
International literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Some full text. 1926-

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