Humanities Librarian
Marcia Whitehead
Contact:
Boatwright Library
28 Westhampton Way
804-289-8823
28 Westhampton Way
804-289-8823
Subjects: American Studies, Biography, Book Reviews, Citing Sources, Classical Studies, E-Books, English & Literature, First Year Seminar, French, German, Humanities, International Education, Language and Linguistics, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, Master of Liberal Arts, Primary Resources, Reference Sources, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Richmond Area , Russian, Scholarly Publications, Spanish, Special Topics
Special Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowSearch for background information on a variety of topics published in the Oxford series of reference books. Find information on topics in the arts, sciences, history, language and literature, and more. (Oxford)
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by ISBN: 1299485332Publication Date: 2012-01-01Of the two online links, the Ebscohost one is easier to use, but allows only one person at a time. The Project Muse link allows unlimited users, but you must download the entire book to read or search it..
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets by Call Number: electronic bookISBN: 9781107560789Publication Date: 2015-10-14
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry by Call Number: electronic bookISBN: 9781107040366Publication Date: 2015-01-19
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 by ISBN: 1316464148Publication Date: 2015-12-03
- eBook Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new windowSearch for ebooks that provide a broad overview of many topics. The database includes mostly reference works, such as encyclopedias, almanacs, yearbooks, handbooks, and more. (Gale)
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new windowSearch this encyclopedia for background information on all genres of music and musicians (best for classical and jazz). The database does include dictionaries like The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, among others. (Oxford)
- Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series This link opens in a new windowAccess biographical and critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. (Gale)
- Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series This link opens in a new windowAccess critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres. (Gale)
Online Dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowThis resource also includes an Historical Thesaurus, which functions as "a kind of semantic index to the contents of the OED."
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowSearch this encyclopedia for background information on most aspects of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography) from prehistory to the present. (Oxford)
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new windowSearch this encyclopedia for background information on all genres of music and musicians (best for classical and jazz). The database does include dictionaries like The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, among others. (Oxford)
- Glossary of Poetic TermsTerms in this glossary are linked to the Poetry Foundation collection of poems and information about poets.
- Silva RhetoricaeA primer of rhetoric covering the branches of oratory, rhetorical terminology, rhetorical pedagogy and much more.