Research Guides @ Fordham: English and American Literature: Finding Books

Finding Books

Searching the Catalog (Library Instructional Video)

Click on the Catalog tab to search for books within Fordham University Libraries.

Broad search: Use the "Words or Phrase" option to search for words appearing anywhere in the Catalog (does not search full text of books).

Narrower search: Use "Subject" option to find books about specific authors or topics.

Sample subject terms:

English literature
American literature
Literature and history
Women and fiction
George Eliot and criticism

Books of Interest

When Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains by Gus Palmer (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) E78.G73 W435 2018
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism by Brooks E. Hefner
Call Number: (RH) PS228.M63 H42 2017
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America by Paul C. Gutjahr (Editor)
London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2017.
Electronic resource; authentication required.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance by Christopher N. Phillips
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Electronic resource; authentication required.
American Literature as World Literature by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Call Number: (RH) PS157 .A43 2018
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

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