ENGL 428X: Victorian Bodies
Professor William Cohen, Spring 2008
Web page created by Timothy Hackman, UM Libraries
This guide will assist you in locating periodical articles from the Victorian period for English 428X. E-mail Tim Hackman, the subject area specialist, or call 301-314-8521 for more information.
For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult Research Port and the UM Libraries' home page.
Contents
UM Library Databases
- Internet Resources
See also the original Making of America pages from Cornell University and University of Michigan.
UM Library Databases
American Periodicals Series
Full text images of over 1,100 colonial and early American magazines and periodicals spanning from colonial times to the mid 20th century. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
19th Century Masterfile
Covers periodicals, books, newspapers, and more from the 19th century to 1925.
Nineteenth Century
Online catalogue of over 25,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. McKeldin owns microfiche in the General Collection and the Women Writers Specialist Collection.
Periodicals Index Online
Access to 4,500 arts/humanities & social science journals published since the 19th-century in 40 languages, on 37 key subjects, e.g., architecture, archaeology, area studies, business, law, & linguistics, containing a full-text archive to over 300 periodical titles and direct linking to JSTOR.
Internet Resources
Internet Library of Early Journals (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
"A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals." Includes the titles Annual Register (1758-1778), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777), and The Builder (1843-1852).
The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html)
"This collection comprises 1,500 books and 23 popular periodical titles published in the United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during the second half of the century. The materials selected illuminate the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Also included are volumes of American poetry."
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (http://www.sciper.org/)
"A searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals. Contains entries for over 14,000 articles and references to more than 6000 individuals and 2500 publications."
Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology (http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/uvsota/index.htm)
A project from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Includes a digital collection of Victorian periodical articles grouped into three thematic areas: Condition of Women, Empire, and Science, Evolution and Eugenics.
The Victorian Web (http://www.victorianweb.org/): "Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria," from Brown University. Particularly, see the section on Victorian Science.
Print and Microform Sources
Searching the Catalog: Use the Advanced Search feature in the Libraries Catalog to identify materials in the UM Libraries' collections. Use the "Year/s" limit, as shown below, to restrict your search to the Victorian period.
You can perform similar searches using WorldCat and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Catalog. Items from CRL and WorldCat can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
Directories and Indexes
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
LOCATION: McKeldin Reference Stacks
CALL NUMBER: Z2005.H6, 5 vols.
Includes tables of contents and an index to contributors for Victorian-era periodicals.
British Literary Magazines
LOCATION: McKeldin Reference Stacks
CALL NUMBER: PN5124.L6 B74 1983, 4 volumes
Includes extensive descriptions of British literary magazines published from 1698 through 1984. See Volume 3: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913. Many of these titles are available in the microfilm collections described below. Search the Catalog by periodical title to find the call number and microfilm reel number.
Microfilm Collections
Early British Periodicals
LOCATION: McKeldin Periodicals Room - Microfilm
CALL NUMBER: AP4.E2 (902 reels)
GUIDES TO THE COLLECTION: A Guide to the Early British Periodicals Collection on Microfilm: with Title, Subject, Editor, and Reel Number Indexes (McKeldin Reference Stacks PN5124.P4U5). See also British Literary Magazines, above.
Early English Newspapers
LOCATION: McKeldin Periodicals Room - Microfilm
CALL NUMBER: AN183.E3
GUIDES TO THE COLLECTION: An
Online Guide to the microfilm set has been produced by the publisher; unfortunately it includes only title and author listings, not content indexing. See also the print guide: Early English Newspapers: Bibliography and Guide to the Microfilm Collection (McKeldin Reference Stacks Z6956.G6E65 and G6E651).
English Literary Periodicals
LOCATION: McKeldin Periodicals Room - Microfilm
CALL NUMBER: AP3.E5 (969 reels)
GUIDES TO THE COLLECTION: Print Guides: Index to English Literary Periodicals (McKeldin Reference PN5118.I531 18 vols.) See also British Literary Magazines, above.
The Times (London)
LOCATION: McKeldin Periodicals Room - Microfilm
CALL NUMBER: AN183.L6T5
GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION: Palmer's Index to the Times (McKeldin Reference AI21.T5, 1790-1907) and Index to the Times (McKeldin Reference AI21.T46, 1907-present). Note that Palmer's Index for 1880-1890 is included in 19th Century Masterfile.
Other Useful Library Guides
Guide to Research Using Primary Resources (http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/research/): A terrific guide created by the UM Libraries' Special Collections Division. Everything you need to know to get started with primary sources.
American and British Primary Source Materials in Major Microform Collections (http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/primary_sources.html): "A guide to American and British primary source material from ca. 1500 to ca. 1900 available on microform in the University of Maryland Libraries. Some of the material is manuscript but most is printed and includes books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers and periodicals."
Interlibrary Loan
Material not held in our libraries can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. The Interlibrary Loan form can also be accessed via the
found in most of the Libraries' databases.
Preparing Your Bibliography
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
Resources for students on academic integrity and plagiarism.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
Citing Sources Using the MLA Handbook
A Guide for Writing Research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
Location: McKeldin Quick Reference Shelf
Call Number: PN147.G53 2003
Questions?
If you have any questions about these or other library resources,
contact Patricia Herron or Tim Hackman.
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