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Resources Related to
War in Literature
Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides
information relating to war in literature. Remember, you can do
a keyword search or a subject search
to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search,
you can make use of Boolean searching by combining
your search words with the words and, or, not.
Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations
to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with
their call numbers and the floor location.
The American Soldier in Fiction, 1880-1963: A History of
Attitudes Toward Warfare and the Military Establishment. PS374.M5A4, 3rd
floor.
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. PN98.W64
A76 1989, 3rd floor.
Blood Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare. Electronic Resource
available via NetLibrary.
Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. PS1541.Z5W6 1984, 3rd floor.
Encyclopedia of American War Literature. PS169.W27 E53 2001, Reference
Area, 1st floor.
The Nightmare of History: The Fictions of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence.
Electronic Resource available via NetLibrary.
The Ordeal of a Playwright: Robert E. Sherwood and the Challenge of War.
PS3537.H825 T4533 1970, 3rd floor.
Simone Weil's The Iliad - The Poem of Force. PA4037. W35 2003. On Reserve
at Circulation/Reserve Desk, 1st fl.
Simone Weil Reader. B2430.W472 E55 1985, 4th floor.
War and the Novelist: Appraising the American War Novel. PS39.J6, 3rd
floor.
Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture, 1850 - 2000.
P96.W35 P37 2000, 3rd floor.
Women and the War Story. Electronic Resource available via NetLibrary.
Research
Databases:
Click on the above link for the complete list of
the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed
below.
JSTOR:
A selection of journals available in full-text from the beginning
issue through the past three to five years.
Academic
Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic
areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general
academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating
back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly
journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
America:
History and Life: Covers United States and Canadian history
from pre-history to present.
ArticleFirst:
Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately
12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business,
the humanities, etc.
Historical
Abstracts: Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the
present. Excludes North America.
Humanities
Full Text Omnifile: Part of Wilson OmniFile. Contains many
full-text articles.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources.
MLA:
Modern Langugage Association Bibliography. Covers literature,
language, linguistics, folklore.
Philosopher's
Index: Covers philosophy and related fields. It covers the
areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy,
epistemology and as well as material on the philosophy of law,
religion, science, history, education, and language.
Wilson Social
Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of
anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political
science, social work, sociology, etc.
Internet
Resources Relating to War in Literature:
Antebellum
and Civil War America:
Site by David Hart, University at Adelaide.http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/
Korean
War in Literature: Bibliography of literature compiled by
Philip K. Jason, former professor of literature at Georgetown
University, U.S. Naval Academy and Florida Gulf Coast University.
World
War I Literature: An "About.com" site linking to
works written about and/or during the WWI. Links to works written
by front line soldiers of the War.
