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Phillis Wheatley, 1754-1784. From http://www.it.cc.mn.us/literature/wheat.htm

Poetry and Memoirs by 19th-Century British and American Writers of African Descent

Fall 2000

Resources
8:098 Poetry and Memoirs by American and British Writers of African Descent, Prof. Florence Boos

 

Link to Booklist below

 Resources

African American Resources. Extensive site linking to resources on the Internet. From Georgetown University.

African American Mosaic from the Library of Congress. Photos, essays, documents, and much more. An excellent and entertaining site.

Poole's Plus (UI access only) 3 Million + records available on March 21, 2000. Several sections available: Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) (Editor: W. F. Poole.) All records (490,000) are now available for searching. Additional minor records are being added following the conversion of these records to database form. Record verification and correction continues on minor records. Index to Periodicals (1890-1902) (Editor: William T. Stead.) Stead's Index (the "British Poole's") is now available. The first 50,000 records are searchable now (approx. 50,000 records). N. B. 200 of the periodical titles indexed by Stead or not indexed in Poole. Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906. is now available for searching. In excess of 780,000 records are online and available."Starter File" of the Index to the New York Times for 1900. is now availabe. Many more years of this important index will be made available soon. A complete file of Nineteenth-Century Book Records is now part of Poole's Plus, which permits searching across genre. A complete file of Nineteenth-Century Serial Records is now available for searching.

Periodicals Contents Index (UI access only) Electronic index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue (as early as 1790) to 1990/91. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.

American Poetry Full-text database (UI access only) The American Poetry Full-Text Database features the works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.

Dictionary of Literary Biography(UI access only) Documents the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres. As DLB is augmented several times over the course of a year, it will grow to include essays on more than 6,000 authors. In addition to providing biographical and critical studies written by scholars and academics, DLB presents bibliographic information about each author's writings as well as sources for further reading.

Literature Online (UI access only) including The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) and brief biographical information. You may search for words within the full texts of literary works, including poems.

Modern Language Association Bibliography (UI access only) (Silver Platter) The basic index for literature, 1963-present.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Bartleby.com) Contents range from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. 18 volumes, originally published 1907-1921. Online combination of two sets. Good articles - easily searched.

Database of African-American Poetry (UI access only)
This database covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18thand 19th centuries. The bibliographic source for the database is Afro-American poetry and drama 1760-1975. Software features include keyword, title, first line, poet, period and gender searches, and custom viewing and printing options.

English Poetry Full-text Database (UI access only) Includes the works of nearly 1,350 poets from 600-1900 with emphasis on the actual text of the poems and including the poet's own notes but excluding the following: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies, verse dramas intended for stage. Features include keyword, title, first line, poet and period searches and custom printing options.

Dictionary of Literary Biography articles and Other Links:

Books on Nineteenth-Century Britons of African Descent:

Bolt, Christine. Victorian Attitudes to Race: London : Routledge, 1971.

Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness. Ithaca : Cornell UP, 1988.

Dabydeen, David. The Black Presence in English Literature. Manchester UP, 1985.

Drescher, Seymour. From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. NYU Pr, 1999.

Edwards, Paul and David Dabydeen. Early Black Writers in Britain 1760-1890. Edinburgh UP, 1991.

Fryer, Peter. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain. London: Pluto Press, 1984.

Gerzina, Gretchen. Black London. Rutgers UP, 1995.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Harvard UP, 1993.

Levy, Anita. Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898. Princeton UP, 1991.

Lorimer, Douglas. Colour, Class and the Victorians: English Attitudes to the Negro in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century. Leicester UP, 1978.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather. NY: Routledge, 1995.

McCollough, Norman Verrle. The Negro in English Literature. Ilfracombe, Great Britain: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd, 1962.

Myer, Susan. Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Cornell UP, 1996.

Myers, Norma. Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain, 1780-1830. F. Cass, 1996.

Robinson, Amy. "Authority and Public Display of Identity: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands," Feminist Studies, 1994 Fall, 20 n. 3: 537-57.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. NY: Vintage Books, 1979.

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. NY: Knopf, 1993.

Semmel, Bernard. Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience: The Governor Eyre Controversy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard U Pr, 1994.

Walvin, James. Black and White: The Negro and English Society, 1555-1945. London: Penguin Press, 1973.

Walvin, James. The Black Presence: A Documentary History of the Negro in England, 1555-1860. NY: Schocken Books, 1972.

Walvin, James. England, Slaves, and Freedom, 1776-1838. U Pr of Mississippi, 1986.

Ware, Vron. Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History. L: Verso, 1992.

West, Shearer, ed. The Victorians and Race. Hants: Scolar Press, 1996.

 

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