Pride and Prejudice Regency England: 1797-1815
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Selected Reference Sources

• Atlas of the British Empire R942 A881
• The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland R942.003 C178
• The Columbia Companion to British History R942 C726
• The Companion to British History R942.03 A752co
• The Encyclopedia of Britain R942.03 E56
• The Oxford Companion to British History R942.03 O98
• The ABC-CLIO World HIstory Companion to the Industrial Revolution R942.081 S799ab
• The American Years: a Chronology of United States History R973 G878am
• Encyclopedia of American History: Revolution and New Nation 1761-1812 R973.03 M268en v.3
• The Dictionary of Art R703 D554tu
• The Encyclopedia of World Art R703 E56
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians R780.92 B168a
• Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians R780.3 G883di
• The Oxford Dictionary of Music R780.3 K36ox
• The Oxford Companion to English Literature R820.3 H341ox
• Reader's Guide to Literature in English R820.9 R286
• British Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 R809 D554 v. 96
• Critical Survey of Poetry (Byron) R809 M194c

Finding Books in the Online Catalog

Materials on British history are found in the 942 area of the Dewey Decimal System. Search the online catalog by subject using the following subject headings and subheadings. Additional subheadings for the time period (18th or 19th century or 1738-1820, 1760-1820, 1789-1820, 1760-1860) appear after the second or third subheadings.

• Great Britain--civilization (see also England--civilization and so on)
• Great Britain--colonies--history
• Great Britain--economic conditions
• Great Britain--foreign relations
• Great Britain--history (plus George III, military, navy, etc.)
• Great Britain--industries
• Great Britain--industry
• Great Britain--intellectual life
• Great Britain--politics and government
• Great Britain--social life and culture
• George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
• Working class--England

The individual topics recommended for this assignment span a wide range of subject areas. Subject headings found in the catalog for these topics include:

• Neoclassicism
• Fashion--history or Costume--history
• Napoleon
• Gardens--English or Landscape architecture--history
• Landscape painters--English (or French, etc.) or Landscape painting--English
• Painters--France or Painters--French
• Goya, Francisco or David, Jacques Louis
• Romanticism--Great Britain
• Nelson, Horatio or Wellington, Arthur
• English fiction--history and criticism (The Gothic Novel)
• Rosetta Stone or Egypt civilization to 332 B.C. or Egypt civilization 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
• United States--history--1783-1815 or United States--history--1783-1865
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• Beethoven, Ludwig van
• Working class--England or Industrial revolution--England or Riots--England

Finding Biographical Information

• Use historical encyclopedias to find information on historical figures
• Use specialized encyclopedias (art, music, etc.) to find information on artists, musicians, etc.
• For British biographies, use The Dictionary of National Biography R920.042 D554n or
  Research Guide to European Historical Biography R920.04 R42
• Biography Resource Center includes full text reference and magazine articles on thousands of people from all historical periods and around the world
• Grove Art Encyclopedia includes information on artists, their works, and their significance
• History databases (below) include biographical information on historical figures

Finding Articles in Research Databases
(go to DA Orgs/Library for off-campus access)

Historical Databases

• History Reference Center (full text)
  Contains the full text of over 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books and at least 60 leading history periodicals--includes over 55,000 historical documents; over 40,000 biographies of historical figures; over 10,000 historical photos and maps; and over 80 hours of historical film and video
• History Study Center (full text)
  Consists of digitized primary and secondary sources, reference sources, historical images, video clips, and links to reliable web sites--focus on British history

General Databases

• Academic Search Premier (full text plus citations and abstracts only)
  A general academic database that indexes over 8,000 leading publications in all subject areas and provides full text for over 4,000 of those titles--over 3,500 titles are peer-reviewed or scholarly publications
• InfoTrac Databases (some full text)
  Search all 4 databases at the same time with the link above, or search them separately below:
  General OneFile (1980-present)(full text plus citations only)
  Indexing, abstracting, full text, and images for newswires, general interest magazines, and refereed academic journals.
  Academic OneFile (full text plus citations and abstracts only)
  A general academic database that indexes leading journals and reference sources--includes peer-reviewed articles in all disciplines--includes full text of the New York Times, 1995-present
  Expanded Academic (1980-present) (full text plus citations only)
  Indexing, abstracting, full text, and images for scholarly or refereed articles in all academic disciplines
  General Reference Center (1980-present) (full text plus citations only)
  Indexing, abstracting, full text, and images for articles from general interest and business periodicals--includes the text of 15 reference sources
• JSTOR (full text)
  An archive of core scholarly journals back to the 1800's--Due to agreements with journal publishers, does not include current issues from the last 3-5 years
  Limit the search to journals in history, cultural studies, or art.

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