ENLT 226M: Online Resources

General:

• The IBIC Guide to Book-Related Resources on the Internet
• MLA online style guide
• Bestsellers 1900-1930 (full-text electronic editions from the Etext Center)
• Virgo
Virgo's "Other Databases" include the following licensed resources. To use them, log into Virgo:
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Best place to begin a search for biographical information. Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference sources, for subjects living & deceased in every field. Covers sources such as Dictionary of American Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc.)
• CARL Uncover (search titles, abstracts, for journal articles)
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media
• InfoTrak SearchBank (Expanded Academic Index)
• Readers' Guide Abstracts, 1983-present
• WebSPIRS (includes MLA Bibliography)

Authors:

• American Authors on the Web
• Museum of the City of San Francisco: Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty in California Movement
• Letters from Jack London to Upton Sinclair
• The Margaret Mitchell House
• Rhino's Liner Notes to Gone With The Wind
• Family Tree of Peyton Place
• The Joseph Heller Archive at the University of South Carolina
• Australian Radio National interview with Heller (transcript, etc.)
• Joseph Heller (at Bohemian Ink)
• Voices from the Gaps: Alice Walker
• Aniina's Alice Walker Page
• Ga-Ga for Ya-Yas

Bibliography:

• "Descriptive Bibliography," by Terry Belanger
• "Descriptive Bibliography: An Online Tutorial" by Stephen Ramsay
• "Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology," Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
• "A Field Guide to the Faces," David Mundie
• "A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary," by G. Thomas Tanselle (Studies in Bibliography vol. 40, 1987)

  Book Awards:

• Literary Prizes (from Bookwire)

Book Search:

• Bibliofind

  Electronic Text of 20th-Century Fiction

• The Internet Public Library (searchable index)
• Modern English Collection at the Etext Center (UVa)
• The Online Books Page (searchable index)

History and Society:

• America from the Great Depression to WWII
• The American Experience: America 1900 (PBS)
• Chicago Growth, 1850-1990
• Historical Text Archive (20th Century), Mississippi State University
• Hyperhistory Online
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• The Fifties: Let's Play House
• A Short History of American Labor
• Voices from the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress/American Memory)
• Interview about Hog Killing in Arkansas
• Interview about the Story of Beefsteak
• Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation" (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994)
• The Chicago Stock Yards on the Eve of the CIO

  Legal Decisions:

• BANTAM BOOKS, INC. V. SULLIVAN 372 U.S. 58 (Obscenity case involving Peyton Place)

Manuscript Collections:

• National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections

Publishing:

• Bookwire's Guide to Book Publishers' Archives
• "Making the Charts," Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, Jul 1, 1997)
• 125th Anniversary Issue, Publisher's Weekly

Films and Television:

• The Jungle (1914)
• Gone with the Wind (1939 movie)
• Peyton Place (1957 movie)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961 movie)
• Peyton Place (TV Series, 1964-69)
• Theme Song to Peyton Place (TV Show)
• Return to Peyton Place (1972 TV Series)
• Murder in Peyton Place (1977 TV show)
• Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985 TV show)
• The Peyton Place Page
• Welcome to Peyton Place