English+Literature

=Catalog= The [|library catalog]allows you to choose items JUST from the Cathedral library, OR you may have items delivered from throughout the public library system. We get deliveries on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Just enter your search term(s) in the box (i.e. "Charles Dickens") and choose an item. Then hit "Make Request," and enter your library card number. Your item will arrive for you in the library/media center! Bloom's criticisms are prolific and very authoritative. Availalble at your library! Questions? Ask a Librarian! Bloom, Harold. __Charles Dickens.__ Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.

Databases
Our school databases offer plenty of help in researching English authors and poets. [|Login to the database]site using your library card number OR you can use the library's room card number: 2 1978 06029 0212 pin: 0212

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You may choose "list by subject" OR go straight to __//**Academic Search Premier**//__ (the first database). __//**Biography in Context**//__ offers stories of your author with insight into writing styles & themes. Scroll down to __//**Literature Resource Center**//__ (Gale) for biographies, criticisms and analysis, and overviews of your authors or topics. __**//CultureGrams//**__ is a new database that features in depth looks at world countries.======

A separate database for literature is the [|Salem Literature] database. If you're on campus, you'll be directed straight to the site. If you're off campus, you'll need the username and password, which is: chsirish student

When you search by "Author" at the Salem site, you can scroll through alphabetically, to find a page on J.K. Rowling, with these vital stats: followed by a review of the Harry Potter series, and personal biographical information on Rowling.
 * AUTHOR** J. K. Rowling
 * FULL NAME** Joanne Kathleen Rowling
 * PSEUDONYM** Kennilworthy Whisp ; Newt Scamander
 * BORN** July 31, 1965; Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England

Websites
Some vetted websites to check out include:

[] This Norton Anthology of English Literature companion website matches up to the junior-senior textbooks. Prepared by the //Norton Anthology// editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for //The Norton Anthology of English Literature// offers twenty-seven topics for study and discussion.

[|http://britishliterature.com] British Literature and Anglophile Resources - very basic information about authors, genres, and eras, in most cases it useful only for overview, but there are some very good and thorough discussions tucked in here as well. Use the index in the left frame for quick access.