Introduction + Featured Reference Works
Use this libguide to complete your research for the course. For additional sources and search tips, see my English literature libguide. If you'd like to meet with me please click the Schedule Research Consultation button.
Begin your research with the reference works listed below. Use reference works legitimately to track down background articles authored by literary scholars; choose and/or refine your research topic; identify disciplinary terms, an important consideration in "keyword" searches of databases such as JSTOR; and identify autobiographies (primary) and relevant, high-impact secondary criticisms.
Handbooks:
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9783110279818Publication Date: 2019-01-29
The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781138784291Publication Date: 2016-11-02
Methodology:
Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780429288432Publication Date: 2019-06-03—Chapter 5: "Social, Media, Life Writing: Online Lives at Scale, Up Close, and In Context"
—Chapter 6: "Studying Visual Autobiographies in the Post-Digital Era"
Humanities Librarian
David C. Murray
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