ENGL 301: Pre-Modern Women Writers (HC)

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution   This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        "sei shonagon"  [Keyword search]            Results include "The Politics of Form: Sei Shonagon" pp. 56-78 in            
        Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political Thinkers  by Penny A. Weiss      

         "women authors" AND poet* AND ("early modern" OR 16th OR 17th)  [Subjects]      

         (race OR racial)  [Subject] AND (medieval OR "middle ages")       

         (women* OR gender*) AND (medieval OR "middle ages" OR 15th OR 16th)  [Keywords] AND  manuscript* [Subject]                          

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.