Day Two Library Research—

Time Period

Before you begin…

Be sure you have finished up the information you need for your author

biography.

Why am I in the library again? Answer—More research...(Write this down.)

• Day Two—– Time Period•What events impacted your writer and

his/her work?–Historical & Political–Educational–Philosophical & Theoretical–Technological & Scientific–Artistic–Literary

Where’s the best place to find this information?(Write this down.)

• Day Two• _________________ for Students

– SHORT STORIES, NOVELS, POETRY, or DRAMA– Look in the section entitled “Historical Context.”

• Directions for finding ___ for Students:– Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

– Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”– Find the volume you need.– Type in your title (novel, drama, short story, or poem).– Click the orange link.– Look under “Historical Context” in Novels for Students, etc.

Where can I find a second source?(Write this down.)

• Day Two—More eBooks:• Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature• Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable

Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them

• Literature and Its Times, Supplement 1• World Literature and Its Times, Volumes 2, 3, and 4• Shakespeare for Students• Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis,

Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements

Where can I find a second source?(Write this down.)

• Day Two—Databases• EBSCO:– http://

www.fortbendisd.com/departments/technology/library/digital-resources/ebsco

– Go to “Literary Reference Center.”– Type in the name of your research title and masterplots.– Look for your research title with Masterplots II (in bold)

underneath it.– Click on “HTML Full Text,” (NOT the name of your title).– Look for “Context.”

Accessing Databases from Home

• EBSCO—ridgepoint (login); panthers (password)

• Gale—lonestar (password)

Who’s in the Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature?

– Douglas Adams– Matthew Arnold– Margaret Atwood– W. H. Auden– Jane Austen– Samuel Beckett– Eric Blair (Orwell)– William Blake– Charlotte Bronte– Emily Bronte– Rupert Brooke– Elizabeth Barrett Browning– Anthony Burgess– Robert Burns– Lord Byron– Lewis Carroll– Angela Carter– Agatha Christie– Samuel Taylor Coleridge– Joseph Conrad– Roald Dahl

– Anita Desai– Daniel Defoe– Charles Dickens– Isak Dinesen– John Donne– Arthur Conan Doyle– George Eliot– T. S. Eliot– Thomas Gray– Graham Greene– George Herbert– Henry Fielding– Thomas Hardy

– Seamus Heaney– E. M. Forster– John Fowles– John Galsworthy– William Golding– Robert Herrick– Gerard Manley Hopkins– A. E. Housman– Ted Hughes– Aldous Huxley

– Kazuo Ishiguro– Ben Johnson– James Joyce– John Keats– Rudyard Kipling– Charles Lamb– Philip Larkin– D. H. Lawrence– Doris Lessing– C. S. Lewis– Doris Lessing– Katherine Mansfield– Christopher Marlowe– Yann Martel– Andrew Marvell– W. Somerset Maugham– Alice Munro– Ben Okri– Michael Ondaatje– George Orwell– Samuel Pepys– Harold Pinter

– Alexander Pope– Christina Rossetti– Saki– William Shakespeare– George Bernard Shaw– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley– Nevil Shute– Muriel Spark– Robert Louise Stevenson

– Bram Stoker– Alfred Lord Tennyson– Dylan Thomas– J. R. R. Tolkien– Derek Walcott– Evelyn Waugh– H. G. Wells– Oscar Wilde– P. G. Wodehouse– Virginia Woolf– William Wordsworth– William Butler Yeats

Directions for Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature

– Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

–Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”– Find Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World

Literature (first book on third shelf).– Type in your author’s name.–Click the orange link.– Look under “Works in Biographical and Historical

Context.”

Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them

– Directions:• Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

• Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”

– Find Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them (last book on fourth shelf).

– Type in the name of your work/title.– Click the orange link.– Look under anything that begins with “Events in

History…”

Literature and Its Times, Supplement 1

– Directions:• Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

• Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”

– Find Literature and Its Times: Supplement 1 (first book on fifth shelf).

– Type in the name of your work/title.– Click the orange link.– Look under anything that begins with “Events in

History…”

World Literature and Its Times (Volumes 2, 3, & 4)

– Directions:• Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

• Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”

– Find World Literature and Its Times (on bottom shelves).– Type in the name of your work/title.– Click the orange link.– Look under anything that begins with “Events in

History…”

Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements

– Included movements:• Absurdism• Beat Movement• Bildungsroman• Classicism• Colonialism• Elizabethan Drama• Enlightenment• Existentialism• Expressionism• Gothic Literature• Humanism• Imagism• Magic Realism

• Medieval Mystics• Modernism• Neoclassicism• Postcolonialism• Postmodernism• Realism• Renaissance Literature• Romanticism• Science Fiction and

Fantasy• Surrealism• Symbolism• Transcendentalism

Directions for Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements

– Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

–Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”– Find Literary Movements for Students: Presenting

Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements (third book on third shelf).– Type in the name of your movement.–Click the orange link.– Look under “Historical Context.”

Directions for Shakespeare for Students

– Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350

–Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.”– Find Shakespeare for Students (third book on

sixth shelf).– Type in the name of your play.–Click the orange link.– Look under “Historical Context.”

What time is it?

Research time! Happy Researching! Be sure you can discuss how the

times influenced your writer’s work.