Research Guides: English: Books

RamCat

Search RamCat for books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos, maps, government documents, and more.

Suggested keywords: american literature, children's literature, drama, English literature, essays, etymology, fiction, grammar, literary criticism, literary theory, literature review, manuscripts, poetry

Recommended eBooks & Print Books

eBooks

The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell
Publication date: 2014
The idea of 'the great American novel' continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday. This landmark book reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself.
A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius, With Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature by Michael V. Albrecht; Gareth L. Schmeling
Publication date: 1997
In this monumental survey work the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. With extensive indices and bibliographies.

On the Shelves

Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment by Miriam L. Wallace (Editor)
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: PR853 .E55 2009
Rather than positing a simple opposition between an eighteenth-century Enlightenment of rationality, propriety, and progress and a Romantic Period of inspiration, heroic individualism, and sublime emotionality, the essays in this book trace the putatively 'Romantic' in the early 1700s as well as the long legacy of 'Enlightenment' values and ideas well into the nineteenth century.
John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: PR4836 .R525 2012
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet and provides a reassessment of Keats's entire life.
Light from Heaven: Love in British Romantic Literature by Frederick L. Beaty
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: PR447 .B37 1971
Explores the theme of love within the context of British Romantic literature, examining how romantic poets and writers, such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats, portrayed love in their works.
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barchas
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: PR4038.H5 B37 2012
Makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen’s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Re-situates Austen’s work closer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott and away from the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies.
The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; Roberta M. Golinkoff
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: P118 .H57 1996
Presents a synthesis of work done by the authors, who have pioneered one of the most important methodological advances in language learning in the past decade: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as 13 months.
Sincerity's Shadow: Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Deborah Forbes
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: PR585.S44 F67 2004
A versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry that refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Self-representation never achieves final sincerity, but rather produces an array of "sincerity effects" that give form to poetry's exploration of self.

Other Catalogs

Govinfo.gov
Provides free online access to official United States Federal Government publications
WorldCat
Global catalog that indexes collections from 72,000 participating libraries in 170 countries.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
Google Books
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

Ask a Librarian

Need research assistance? One-on-one help is available via the Library’s Virtual Reference Room in Blackboard or phone (325-486-6534) during the following hours:

Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 2 – 6 p.m.
Sunday: 1 – 5 p.m.

You can also contact us via

email or by posting on the Ask a Librarian Discussion Board in Blackboard.
Messages sent outside of normal service hours will be answered the next day the library is open (check Library Hours of Operation for current schedule).