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They are categorized, but many contain varied content types, so read descriptions for more complete understanding of source content.
Reference/Background Information
Reference/Background Information - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism This link opens in a new windowAn accessible and intuitive online platform, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, and is the ideal starting point for any research in modernism. With over 1,000 articles from experts in the field, supported by over 100 images, The content covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theater, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields.
- The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist NovelAccessible introduction to works, authors, and context of the period. Includes essays from key scholars in the field and "for further reading" section.
Scroll down to see full table of contents. Can print and download full-text of chapters. - The Cambridge Companion to American ModernismAccessible introduction to works, authors, and context of the period. Includes essays from key scholars in the field and "for further reading" section.
Scroll down to see full table of contents. Can print and download full-text of chapters.
The Cambridge History of Modernism by "Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science..."
Indexes/Bibliographies
Sources that collect and organize citations to other relevant primary and secondary sources, primary. Some sources listed may also include full-text content.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish literature This link opens in a new windowOxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature is a reliable, selective, and authoritative guide to recommended literature, organized by the themes and topics in British and Irish literature. Each article is written by a scholar in the field and provides an overview of the topic, a narrative, bibliographic essay listing the recommended resources for that topic, each with a detailed description.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: American Literature This link opens in a new windowExpert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Covers the theory, method, and the history of American literature
eJournals
Browse or search for specific journals in this field of study using the eJournal search.
Primary Sources
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new windowOver 100,000 of the most important and influential poems representing the full range of movements and traditions in American poetry from 1900 to the present day including Maya Angelou, John Ashbery Gwendolyn Brooks, Clark Coolidge, Rita Dove, Susan Howe, Langston Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Content includes: Epistolary novels, Gothic novels, Documentary fictions, Allegorical narratives, and satires.
- MODNETS - Modernist Networks"...a federation of digital projects in the field of modernist literary and cultural studies...[is] a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship and a technological infrastructure to support development of scholarly projects and access to scholarship on modernist literature and culture."
- Modernist Journals Project"a research and teaching resource on the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with a central focus on periodical literature."
- Discovering Literature: 20th Century - Capturing and Creating the ModernSee images and analysis of classic works, including The Waste Land, Dubliners, and Mrs. Dalloway.