A Street at Night, John Atkinson Grimshaw
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A portrait of Woolf by Roger Fry c. 1917 (Source: Wikicommons) |
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Think Strategically about Your Research
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?
Tips for Using MLA International Bibliography 1. Take advantage of folders and the ability to export citations in MLA format. 2. Set search limits before you begin searching so that ALL your results are from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals or books. 3. Use the "Names as Subjects" function to isolate a set of articles about the author you are working on; then refine your search by adding Subject Terms. 4. NEVER GIVE UP! Almost every article will be available to you either online, in print, or through Interlibrary Loan.
Example of MLA Style on a Works Cited page for an article retrieved from a database:
Stuart, Christopher. "William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow and the Autobiographical Impulse." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 47, no. 3, 2006, pp. 261-73. MLA International Bibliography. dx.doi.org/10.3200/CRIT.47.3.261-273. Accessed 17 January 2013. Thus the pattern is: Author. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, year, pp. #s . Name of database. [doi if available]. Accessed [day month year].
More Examples and explanations at Purdue's OWL site: "Why cite?" Citations show the research path someone took to develop an idea, and they provide leads for other researchers to discover information in related resources. "When to cite?" You need to cite when you directly quote someone else, and it's also important to cite when you refer to another person's ideas or when you outline someone else's argument or line of reasoning. |
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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
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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
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?