Collins Memorial Library: English: Primary Sources

Searching for Literary Works by Author/Title

Searching Collins Library Primo Search for a novel or play, or for all the works by a specific author, is pretty straightforward:

Dove, Rita.
Poisonwood Bible.
If you need a specific edition, include the publisher in a keyword search: Heart of Darkness Norton critical edition.

Jane Eyre: an authoritative text, contexts, criticism by Charlotte Brontë; Deborah Lutz; Ben Austen
Call Number: PR4167.J5 L88 2016 Print Books
ISBN: 9780393264876
The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by Charlotte Bronte. The text is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, an introduction that explores the influences of the novel and its journey to publication, excerpts from Charlotte's early writings and diaries, and criticism examining the many themes woven into the novel with work. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Searching Collins Library Primo Search for a specific poem or short story by a particular author is a bit trickier:

For poetry and short story collections published after about 1990, the tables of contents may be included in the cataloging record. You certainly can try to search by the title of the poem or short story, but if you don't find it that way, don't give up--try the steps below!
Try to find out the title of the collection in which the poem or short story was published and then search by that title. There are several strategies for finding such titles:
- Search the lists of publications by author in Literature Resource Center.
- If the short story or poem is no longer under copyright, try searching Google Books or Project Gutenberg for the full text.
- If the poem or short story was not published in a book-length collection or anthology, it probably was published in a literary magazine or other magazine that publishes fiction and poetry. To get the original source of the publication, you will need to consult an index. Collins Library has old volumes of the Short Story Index (through 2004) as well as several poetry indexes in the print reference section.

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
A collection of full-text poetry, short stories, and supplemental content, as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.

Search for Anthologies and Collections of Literary Works

To find anthologies of literature, try searching Collins Library Primo Search by subject. Here are several models to follow:

Short stories, American.

American fiction, 21st century.

American poetry, 20th century.

Great Britain -- Literary collections

African Americans -- Literary collections

Fear -- Literary collections

Baseball -- Literary collections

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose 1832-1901 by Black; Lisa A. Surridge (Editor); Mary Elizabeth Leighton (Editor)
Call Number: PR1145 .B76 2012 Print Books
ISBN: 9781551118604
The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde's aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis's theories of & sexual inversion, the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented..

Student Literary Magazines

Sound Ideas, the digital repository for the University of Puget Sound, has digitized recent issues of several student publications:

Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents is the student literary and art magazine of the University of Puget Sound.
Black Ice
Black Ice is the student publication from the Black Student Union.
Wetlands Magazine
Wetlands Magazine is the University of Puget Sound’s campus publication dedicated to the critical interrogation of gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, race, embodiment, intersectional identities and social justice as well as the celebration of related art, poetry, literature and performance.

Literary Magazines - Databases

These databases contain the full text of several literary magazines.

Project MUSE
Interdisciplinary database includes books and articles from scholarly publishers with focus on humanities and social science.

Making of America: 19th-century Journals
Includes several key American literary journals from the 19th century: Harper's, The Atlantic, The Century, plus more.

Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega
Includes indexing as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles as far back as 1994. Provides access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article. Subject coverage is multidisciplinary.

Featured Resource: EEBO

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Puget Sound Archives & Special Collections, English

The Archives & Special Collections collects, preserves, and makes available primary source material documenting life at the University as well as collections representing regional, national and international issues.

A small selection of material is listed below, for additional sources, please contact archives@pugetsound.edu.

Original medieval manuscript leaves and a few facsimiles.

Watts, Isaac, Logic; or, The right use of reason in the inquiry after truth, 1825.

Cobb, Lyman, Cobb's spelling book: being a just standard for pronouncing the English language, 1812.

Bills of Sale for the Purchase of Slaves, 1835, 1837, 1845.

In addition, a small portion of photographs, historical documents, and digitized material are available online. You can also browse archival and manuscript collections as well as rare books in Primo (limit the location to Archives & Special Collections).

Archives & Special Collections Hours

The Archives & Special Collections is located on the second floor of the Collins Memorial Library.

Set up an appointment: We are open to researchers by appointment Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. To make an appointment, email archives@pugetsound.edu or book online.

We look forward to assisting you!