CC115 Research Seminar Help Page: George Eliot's Middlemarch; Spring 2008

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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824 - 1900 Ref. AI3 .W45 in print

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881 Ref. AI3 .P7 1938 in print

New York Times Index Ref. AI21 .N45 (1854 - date) print index; content available in microform

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Works by and about George Eliot can be found on the 4th floor beginning with the call number PR4681. In addition to Eliot's novels and collections of essays, our collection includes her diaries, essays, letters, a number of biographies, and dozens of works of criticism.

Middlemarch from notebook to novel; a study of George Eliot's creative method PR4662 .B4
Middlemarch : an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism PR4662 .A1 1977

George Eliot : a life PR4681 .A858 1996
George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals PR4681.A3 C7 1884
The Real life of Mary Ann Evans : George Eliot, her letters and fiction PR4681 .B57 1994
A century of George Eliot criticism PR4688 .H25

Making it whole : a Victorian circle and the shape of their world PR469 .P45 P67 1984

Subject Headings
 Eliot, George, 1819-1880
 Civilization, Modern 19th century
 England Civilization 19th century
 Great Britain Civilization 19th century
 English literature 19th century history and criticism
 Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century

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Key Resource: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) Ref. PN761 .N5
NCLC presents criticism on major literary figures and nonfiction writers, it includes novelists, poets, playwrights, and literary theorists from 1800-1899.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature 5v. Ref. PR 19 .O95 2006
Oxford Companion to English Literature Ref. PR 19 .O94 2000
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Ref. PR 85 .C29 2006

Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950 Ref. PR 111 .E55 2006
Modern British Women Writers Ref. PR 116 .M63 2002

World Literature and Its Times, v. 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837- ) Ref. PR 471.M65 2001
The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel, v.2: 20th Century Ref. PR 821 .F2 2006
Notable British Novelists 3v. Ref. PR 821 .N57 2001

The Victorian Web
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The Victorian Web: George Eliot
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The Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

George Eliot Text Archive (from Prof.Peter Batke, Princeton) http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/

EuroDocs: History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents, 1816 - 1918
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Britain_1816-1918 

The British Library: Collect Britain http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/

INTUTE: History: Browse by Time Period
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
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VU Writing Center: http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/

Craft of research 4th floor Q180.55.M4 B66 2003

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