- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Daniel Defoe.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | defoe Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals". |
Provides a large number of quality items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | defoe JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a large number of quality documents. |
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online | defoe Perform the "alphabetical" search. |
Provides text of several items written by Defoe. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | defoe Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles, and a large number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | defoe Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to limit your search “to articles with text” and “to refereed publications.” |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | defoe Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles (many are full-text). |
Provides a large number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | defoe Perform the default search. |
Provides a number of excellent items, including essays, character summaries, story summaries, and critical interpretation. |
| Research Library Complete | defoe Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library". Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals". |
Provides a large number of excellent items. |
| Scribner's | Select
“Writers A-Z” and click on each of the links: DEFOE, DANIEL: British Writers DEFOE, DANIEL: Writers for Children |
Provides essays about the author and his works, along with bibliographies. |
| SIRS Renaissance | defoe Perform the "Quick Search". |
Provides a small number of relevant items. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Defoe, Daniel link. |
Provides a small number of quality items.
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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic
books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide
via the Internet.
The English novel: a panorama
PR821S7
Location: DothanEnlightened England
PR1134S8 1947
Location: Troy, AL; DothanDaniel Defoe: a collection of critical essays
PR3406 .D3 1976
Location: DothanHistory and the early English novel: matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe
Location: eBookFinance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century: accounting for Defoe
Location: eBookRobinson Crusoe
Location: eBookTour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
Location: eBookFrom London to Land's End
Location: eBookThe Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Location: eBook(On) the Education of Women
Location: eBookShortest-way With the Dissenters
Location: eBookDickory Cronke
Location: eBookEverybody's Business Is Nobody's Business : Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances: Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, Etc...
Location: eBookThe Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Location: eBookRobinson Crusoe notes, including life of the author, general plot summary, summaries and commentaries, questions for review
Location: eBookThe Columbia history of the British novel
Location: eBookThe life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque, having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates, written by himself Daniel Defoe
Location: eBookTwentieth century interpretations of Moll Flanders; a collection of critical essays
PR3404.M63 E4 1970
Location: Troy, AL; DothanDaniel Defoe: master of fictions : his life and ideas
PR3406 .N68 2001
Location: Phenix CityTwentieth century interpretations of Robinson Crusoe; a collection of critical essays
PR3403.Z5 E4 1969
Location: Troy, AL; DothanDaniel Defoe; how to know him
PR3406 .T7 1971
Location: Phenix CityCollected works of Daniel Defoe
PR 3402 1900
Location: DothanDefoe and the nature of man
PR3408.R45 N6
Location: Troy, AL; DothanThe life and strange and surprising adventures of Daniel De Foe
PR3406.D613 1971
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix CityDaniel Defoe: a collection of critical essays
PR3406 .D3 1976
Location: Phenix CityDefoe and the idea of fiction, 1713-1719
PR3408.P6 S5 1983
Location: Troy, ALDaniel Defoe: ambition & innovation
PR3407.B33 1986
Location: DothanThe reluctant pilgrim : Defoe's emblematic method and quest for form in Robinson Crusoe
PR3403 .Z5 H85 1966
Location: Phenix CityDefoe's perpetual seekers: a study of the major fiction
PR3407.B57 1985
Location: Troy, ALDefoe's fiction
PR3407.B44 1985
Location: Troy, AL
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
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Daniel Defoe
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe -
Daniel Defoe
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/17/frameset.html -
Daniel Defoe
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm -
Daniel Defoe
http://underthesun.cc/Classics/Defoe/index.htm -
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/defoe.htm -
Daniel Defoe Biography
http://www.britainexpress.com/countryside/countryside-index.htm -
Daniel Defoe – Biography and Works
http://www.literature-web.net/defoe -
Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year
http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/daniel_defoe.htm -
Great Books – Daniel Defoe
http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_398.asp -
Modern History Sourcebook: Daniel Defoe on the Education of Women (1719)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html -
The San Antonio College Lit Web Daniel Defoe Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/defoe.htm -
UTEL: Daniel Defoe Page
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/authors/defoed.html
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