Pathfinder for “Modern Southern Women Writers”: English 4760
Author Web Sites/Biographical Information/Criticism
Kaye Gibbons
*(CANR 75, 127; CLC 50, 88, 145)
Jill McCorkle
http://www.writerswrite.com and
http://www.bu.edu/agni click “interviews” at top of page
*(CANR 113; CLC 51)
Sue Monk Kidd
Lee Smith
*(CANR 46, 118; CLC 25, 73)
Alice Walker
*(CANR 66, 82, 131; CLC 46, 58, 103, 167)
Eudora Welty
http://www.eudorawelty.org (click arrows on left side of page)
http://olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/welty_eudora (long essay on Welty)
*(CANR 65, 128; CLC 33, 105, 220)
*Abbreviations in parenthesis refer to Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series (CANR) and to Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC); numbers indicate volume numbers in the each series which have information on the author and her works. Both series are found in the Reference Section of the Madonna Library, under Call numbers CT120 C77 and PN771 C761 respectively.
Additional Reference Titles
F208.2 C66 2004
A Companion to the American South. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
PS147 O94 1995
The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. NY: Oxford UP, 1995.
(entries on Smith, Walker, and Welty)
PS261 C555 2004
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Selected Circulating Titles in the Madonna Library
PS261 E58 2002
The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women and the Dark Seductress. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002.
(Gibbons, Smith, and Welty treated)
PS 261 H534 2002
The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002. (sections devoted to Gibbons, McCorkle, Tyler, Walker, and Welty)
PS3563 C3444 Z59 2000
Understanding Jill McCorkle. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 2000.
PS374 M547 E29 2002
Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith. Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 2002.
PS3569 M5376 Z68 1992
Lee Smith. NY: Twayne Pub., 1992.
PS3573 A425 Z57 2005
Alice Walker: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005.
PS3545 E6 Z752 1999
Understanding Eudora Welty. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 1999.
PS3545 E6 Z773 2002
One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002.
PS 3545 E6 Z7728 2005
Eudora Welty: A Biography. Orlando: Harcourt, 2005.
Databases (Use these databases to find full-text scholarly articles on your chosen topic. They are accessible off-campus via password)
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Proquest Research Library (ProQuest)
MLA Bibliography (CSA)
Full Text Electronic Journal List
Individual journals on topics in the Humanities may be accessed directly from the link above. Click on link, then open drop-down window under “Browse e-journals by subject,” select “Languages & Literatures” and click on search. Under the third bullet select “American Literature” with its (40) titles.
w.vine 10/25/07