Preliminary Bibliography

Amanda Ramirez

Preliminary Bibliography

Emerson, Amanda. "The Early American Novel: Charles Brockden Brown's Fictitious Historiography." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40.1/2 (2007): 125-50. Academic Search Premier. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

Jarenski, Shelly. “The Voice of the Preceptress: female education in and as the seduction noble.” JMMLA. 2004 spring; 37(1): 56-68

MLA International Bibliography, p. 301 2004, volume 1, classified listings. [10435] [Treatment of women’s education; seduction compared to foster, Hannah Webster: The Coquette.]

Lang, Jessica. “The Novel and the Conservative: the politics of early American women’s fiction. ”DAIA. 2004 apr;64 (10):3675-76. Brandeis U, 2004. DA 3107609. MLA International Bibliography, p. 301 2004, volume 1, classified listings. [10436] [Relationship to conservatism in American politics compared to Foster, Hannah Webster.]

Pettengil, Claire. "Sisterhood in a Separate: Female Friendship in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and The Boarding School." Early American Literature 27.3 (1992): 185. Academic Search Premier. Web. 219 Feb. 2011.

Shurter, Robert L. "Mrs. Hannah Webster Foster and the Early American Novel." American Literature 4.3 (2002): 306. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Feb. 2011.

Shearin, Gloria Aligood. “Women and Rhetoric in the Republic of Letters.”

DAIA. 2001 Nov; 62(5): 1823. U of South Carolina, 2001. DA3013451

MLA International Bibliography p. 239. 2004 [8265]  

Rhetoric compared to Foster, Hannah Webster; The coquette.]

Key words I used:

Hanna Webster Foster

The Boarding school

American Novel

American novel, women

Education

The themes that were closely related to my text were the themes of education and women’s domestic treatment. The scholarly materials I found in the MLA International Bibliography related Hannah Webster Foster to another novel she  has written, (The Coquette) rather than The Boarding School, which was much harder to locate outside of the library databases and online journals. I know now that I want to find the connection between this novel and it’s affect on the education system of it’s time and also that I will need to look at more databases rather than bibliographies to find sources directly related to my text. I learned how to use the MLA International Bibliography, and I feel very accomplished and much more knowledgeable in the research field. It took me a lot of time to figure out what I was looking for, and I had a bit of trouble figuring out the Library of Congress Subject Heading Guide. So although I am more confident with MLA, I need to put more work into working the databases and the Library of Congress Subject Heading Guide.