OneSearch allows searching the catalog plus all databases at once

Extend your search to libraries worldwide with WorldCat

Karen Gillum
Humanities Librarian

Email me for appointments or with any questions, problems:
kjgillum@colby.edu

Conduct targeted searches in individual databases for newspaper, magazine & journal articles:

• Historical Abstracts
• MLA International Bibliography
• JSTOR
• ProQuest Newsstand (recent newspapers)
• NEWSPAPER GUIDE - with pages linking to Historical Newspapers and International Newspapers
• British Newspaper Archive - NOTE that access to articles is not entirely free
• Center for Research Libraries

Browse or search within particular periodicals you know are especially relevant:

• Bookman 1895-1933
• Athenaeum 1830-1921
• Saturday Review of Politics, Science, Literature and Art 1855-1938
• English Review  1908-1937

Remember to make use of a suite of reference sources for background and incidental facts:​

• Credo Reference Database
• Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism 
• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
• Oxford English Dictionary

For Images, search Artstor or Bridgeman Education

Remember to use subject headings in CBBcat - and WorldCat, too 

• Modernism Literature England
• English Literature 20th Century
• World War 1914-1918 Fiction
• World War 1914-1918 Great Britain
• Bloomsbury Group

Think Strategically about Your Research

• Looking up background information first can save you time later - use Credo Reference,  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or Virginia Woolf A to Z in print
• Use terminology and facts learned from the background information to search for articles in MLA International Bibliography  and other databases at left
• Search for books in any of the catalogs Colby has access to, expanding your search with subject linking
• Investigate the notes and bibliographies of every good source you find for leads to more
• Think about what sorts of publications the information you need might be published in 

What sorts of questions could you use Reference sources to answer?

How can you identify a scholarly journal article?   

              Where would you look for primary sources?              

In CBBcat use Keywords such as "popular magazines", Britain, interwar, propaganda to find -

The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States, 1880-1960 / David Reed  In this study, David Reed analyses the rise of the popular magazine in the context of social, cultural, technological and economic changes of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout, his discussion focuses both on the design and content of magazines, and on their marketing and distribution, paying particular attention to developments in print technology, and analysing the impact of both social and commercial trends in publishing.

The Age of the Storytellers : British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950 / Mike Ashley  The years from 1880 to 1950 were the golden age of storytelling. It was an age that coincided with the glory of the popular monthly illustrated magazine, typified by The Strand, which set the standard for popular fiction with the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Rivals and imitators such as Pearson's Magazine, The Windsor, The Royal, Pall Mail, The Idler and many more soon followed. This reference guide considers these magazines in detail, providing coverage of 144 titles, charting their contribution to and influence upon popular literature.  ~ I tried looking these titles up in CBBcat, and indeed we have access to many of them, but not beyond WWI. The book itself might be useful, however.

Entertainment, Propaganda, Education : Regional Theatre in Germany and Britain between 1918 and 1945 / Anselm Heinrich   A comparison of regional theater in England and Germany during World War II, this study finds that the British government actively encouraged local theater companies to produce patriotic fare—partly because they thought the Nazis were doing the same thing

Use OneSearch to find -

                                                                                      The Sleeping Hermaphrodite in the Louvre

Reference Sources

CREDO - a search for androgyn* yields a very substantial article from the reference work, Homosexuality and Science: A Guide to the Debates. Various aspects of culture in the first half of the 20th century are covered; somewhat more attention is given to the US than to Europe.

Secondary Sources

Books

The modern androgyne imagination : a failed sublime / Lisa Rado  -- at Bates and Bowdoin. One of the subject lines in this book's record is for Woolf criticism, and the publisher's summary of the book reads in part: In the late nineteenth century, as changing cultural representations of gender roles and categories made differences between men and women increasingly difficult to define, theorists such as Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Sigmund Freud began to postulate a third, androgynous sex. For many modern artists, this challenge to familiar hierarchies of gender represented a crisis....  James Joyce, H. D., William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and other modernist writers of both sexes became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination.

Androgyny in modern literature / Tracy Hargreaves   Miller has a copy of this. From publisher's summary: ... engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This ... study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siecle to the present.

Subject heading for catalogs: Androgyny (Psychology) in literature

MLA - search for, e.g., Virginia Woolf as a Subject + androgyny  or  modernis* + androgyny

Primary Sources

19th Century British Library Newspapers

Illustrated London News Archive

Times Digital Archive

and other periodical archives listed at left

Look in these sources for terms related to androgyny, for reviews of Orlando. Check Woolf's diaries and letters; how would you look for consideration of this concept in Freud's writings?