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Assignment 3: MLA and WorldCat Author/Topic Search
Bibliographic Research Assignment #3
In Researching Frances Burney’s, Evelina, I used the online databases, MLA International Biography and WorldCat. The results of the MLA are more useful because they refer directly to Burney or Evelina. The results in the WorldCat search seemed to focus on issues that were broader, such as women’s writing or general novels in the eighteenth century. Each search inquiry in MLA resulted in between eighty-eight to two-hundred entries. In WorldCat, there were about 500 entries. I did not find too much of a cross-over in the results. WorldCat had more books and other sources while MLA was mostly articles. In WorldCat, there was almost an overload of information. It would take a lot of time to search through the many books, articles, and internet sources. Perhaps using sub-topics will help to narrow the search, and produce more relevant results. The topic that I would choose would focus on women’s writing, gender and sexuality according to Frances Burney, and displayed through Evelina. When I was choosing my entries, I wanted to be sure to find works that focus on Evelina. Burney wrote several other books, so I did not want to use those articles because it could lead to information written in the wrong context. Women’s writing and authorship were the most prevalent entry subjects. However, class and society, gender, and art and sexuality were not far behind. The article about sexuality, “Sex and Shopping with Frances Burney,” caught my eye because I think studies in sexuality in the 18th century are interesting. It is interesting to me because sexuality is a subject that was not talked about in the 18th century as blatantly as it is today. Thus, I am curious to know how they express their sexuality, and how writers expressed sexuality in their novels. There weren’t any authors in these searches that were also in my “Recent Studies in Restoration and the Eighteenth-Century Literature” search. I find that surprising because the basis of the 2001 SEL article was the origin of novels and the genre, so I thought for sure that these searches would have authors in common. In general, the entries were very useful in helping to formulate a topic, and some basic ideas for a research paper.
Bibliography
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