- 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 George Eliot.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | george eliot 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 relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collection | george eliot JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a great number of excellent items. |
| Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry Online |
eliot, george Perform the default search. |
Provides a a large number of poems. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | george eliot Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | george eliot Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication." |
Provides a large number of worthy items. |
| Literature Resource Center | george eliot Perform the default (author) search and then click on Evans, Mary Ann (1819-1880). After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text). |
Provides a small number of quality documents. |
| netLibrary | george eliot Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox. |
Provides a large number of eBooks that refer to the author, along with a few that focus on her life and works. |
| Research Library Complete | george eliot 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 good number of excellent items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Eliot, George link.
|
Provides an essay about the author and her works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | george eliot Perform the
"Quick Search." |
Provides a number of excellent items. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Eliot, George link. |
Provides a number of quality items. |
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.
Scenes of clerical life
PR4669.S3 1985
Location: TROY- ALAdam Bede
Location: eBookSilas Marner
Location: eBookMiddlemarch
Location: eBookThe mill on the floss
Location: eBookFelix Holt, the radical
Location: eBookThe transformation of rage: mourning and creativity in George Eliot's fiction
Location: eBookGeorge Eliot and the British Empire
Location: eBook
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- George Eliot
http://www.coventry.org.uk/heritage2/people/eliot/kaeliot.htm
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm
- George Eliot
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/eliotov.html
- George Eliot
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html
- “George Eliot”
by Virginia Woolf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/index.shtml
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