Novels Study Guide

To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

Locate a Copy

• LINCC Online Catalog (Information)
• Electronic Collections
• Interlibrary Loan
• Browsing Guide To Call Numbers

Locate Plots And Summaries

Internet Links

• American Literature
• Book Reviews
• British Literature
• General
• Mega

Locate Criticism

• LINCC Online Catalog (Information)
• Literature Resource Center (Gale) (Information)
• Gale Literary Index (Information)
• Gale Sets Owned by SCC Library
• Academic Source Premier (Information)
• Databases for Literary Research
• Criticism Sources
• Print Indexes to Criticism (Information)

Locate Biographical Information

Literary Research Tutorial

Locate Plots And Summaries

These LINCC Online Catalog Title Browse Lists linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & Availability for each.

• Masterplots
• Masterplots Annual
• Thesaurus of Book Digests
• Reader's Digest of Books

Criticism Sources Available At SCC LRC

These LINCC Online Catalog Title Browse Lists linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & Availability for each.

• Beacham's Popular Fiction In America
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction (English Language Series)
• Critical Temper
• Great Writers of the English Language
• Modern American Literature
• Popular World Fiction
• Research Guide to Biography and Criticism
• Twentieth-Century American Literature
  
  

Print Indexes Available in the Library

These LINCC Online Catalog Title Browse Lists linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & Availability for each.

• American Novel
• American Novel Explication -1991 to 1995
• Book Review Digest -1905 to 1994
• Book Review Index-1966+
• Contemporary Novel-1945 TO 1969
• Continental Novel: a checklist of criticism in English, 1967-1980
• Continental Novel: 1900-1960
• English Novel Explication: criticisms to 1972
• English novel explication. Supplement
• English novel : twentieth century criticism
  
  

Internet Links

Book Reviews

• BookPage
• Booklist (ALA)
• BookWire
• Boston Book Review
• Directory of Book Reviews on the Web (Vanderbilt)
• E-STREAMS (Univ. of Ill. at Chicago & Yankee Book Peddler)
• Book Reviews: Introduction & Short Cuts (Indiana Univ.)
• LibrarySpot
• Literary Review Online
• London Review of Books Online
• New York Times Book Review (current issue)
• New York Times Book Review
• Publishers Weekly
• Reviews (Yahoo!)
• USA Today 150 bestselling books
   

General

• Fiction Resources (Cornell University)
• Novel Analysis (Novelguide.com)
• SparkNotes (Harvard students & graduates)
• Writing about Fiction (Purdue University OWL)

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