Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language
  Ref  PE1072 .C68 1995
• Twentieth century American nature writers:  prose
  Western Americana Stacks PS366.N36 T94 2003
• Gale Virtual Reference:  A library of hundreds of high quality reference books, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, and handbooks.
• Oxford Reference Online:  Search dozens of dictionaries and reference books in art and other disciplines.

Books to Borrow

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “literature and nature”, “environmental and literature” or subjects like “nature in literature” or “ecology in literature”. For example, look at:

• Imagining nature Blake’s environmental poetics / Kevin Hutchings.
• Such news of the land:  U.S. women nature writers / edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe.
  PS163 .E39 2001
• Cities of nature:  journeys to nature in the age of American romanticism / Bernard Rosenthal.
  PS217 .R6 R64
• Another Place:  an Ecocritical Study of Selected Western American Poets / Andrew Elkins.

Articles and Databases

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• MLA Bibliography:  Indexes journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and other formats on the subjects of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in all languages.
• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, archaeology, and more.
• Literature Resource:  Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
• Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities topics, and how they relate to politics.
• Project Muse: Provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal. 

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• ASLE Online Bibliography:  From the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, this page lists resources and documents related to the study of relationships between language, literature, and the environment.
• Ecology Hall of Fame:  Biographical information and resource lists for some of the major environmental writers.
• Ecofeminism on the Web:  A site that includes an extensive bibliography of articles, books, and book chapters on ecofeminist topics.
• Worldwide Arts Resources: Theatre -- A guide to web resources in theater, with links to sites.