Yakesha Cooper: Assignment 3

Assignment 3: MLA and WorldCat Author/Topic Search

In performing searches of Daniel Defoe and Moll Flanders using MLA and WorldCat, I came up with a lot of sources. First, I searched using the author’s name as the subject and the years 1993 until 2008 through MLA. This produced a lot of results, close to 580 sources. Still using MLA, I then searched by using Moll Flanders as the subject, which produced 207 sources. After skimming through some of these results I notice a common theme amongst a lot of the sources on gender. So I decided to search using gender as the subject and Daniel Defoe as the keyword, which resulted in 18 sources. When I tried using WorldCat, it pulled up a lot more sources, 1,565 to be exact. However, upon examining the sources that WorldCat search revealed, I found that MLA seemed to pull up more substantial sources.

I choose to include the following twenty sources relating to Daniel Defoe by judging from titles that seemed to provide the most interesting and varied forms of information. I wanted to find sources that strictly dealt with Moll Flanders, since that was the book I was assigned to cover. Upon searching through sources on this particular book, I found that gender issues seemed to arise often. Therefore, I included some of those titles that I thought might be useful to someone conducting research on that particular subject. I chose to keep out dissertations and only use books and sources from scholarly journals, since they contain more concrete material.

1. Bignami, Marialuisa. Wrestling with Defoe: Approaches from a Workshop on Defoe's Prose. Quaderni di Acme, 30. Bologna: Cisalpino, 1997. *Not in AUC

2. Bowers, Toni. “'I Wou'd Not Murder My Child': Maternity and the Necessity of Infanticide in Two Novels by Daniel Defoe.” Writing British Infanticide: Child- Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859. Newark, De: Associated UP, 2003. *In AUC

3. Brown, Laura. Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. *In AUC

4. Davis, Sara K. “Going Postal: Epistolarity in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteeth-Century Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 67 Issue 5 (2006). *Not in AUC

5. Fisher, Carl. “The Rage of the Street: Crowd and Public in Defoe's Moll Flanders .” Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman. (2007): 73-86. *In AUC

6. Gallagher, Noelle. “Point of View and Narrative Form in Moll Flanders and the Eighteenth-Century Secret History.” Academic, for Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006. *In AUC

7. Gevirtz, Karen Bloom. Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. *Not in AUC

8. Glover, Susan Patterson. Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006. *In AUC

9. Harrow, Sharon. Adventures in Domesticity: Gender and Colonial Adulteration in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. [AMS studies in the eighteenth century, no. 45]. New York: AMS Press, 2004. *Not in AUC

10. Hendricks, Margo, and Patricia A. Parker. Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period. London: Routledge, 1994. *Not in AUC

11. Hinnant, Haskell. “Moll Flanders, Roxana, and First-Person Female Narratives: Models and Prototypes.” Eighteenth-Century Novel. Vol. 4 (2004): 39-72. *Not in AUC

12. Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina, “Whoring, Incest, Duplicity; or, the ‘Self-Polluting’ Erotics of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders.” Genealogies of Identity: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2005. *In AUC

13. Marbais, Peter. “The Fate of This Poor Woman: Men, Women, and Intersubjectivity in 'Moll Flanders' and 'Roxana.'” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 66 Issue 4 (2005). *In AUC

14. Richetti, John. “An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value.” A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. <http://www.ebscohost.com> *In AUC

15. Sherman, Sandra. Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century Accounting for Defoe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. http://www.worldcat.com *Not in AUC

16. Smith, Emily M. “Entertaining Modernity: How Four Eighteenth-Century Heroines Romanced Social Change.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 62 Issue 12 (2002). *In AUC

17. 4. Sova, Dawn B. Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. Facts on File library of world literature. New York: Facts On File, 2006. *Not in AUC

18. Tsomondo, Thorell Porter. The Not So Blank 'Blank Page': The Politics of Narrative and the Woman Narrator in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. *In AUC

19. Zabus, Chantel. “Fatal Attractors: Adam, Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, Walcott, and Re-Righting the Caribbean.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Vol. 28 Issue 2 (2006): 57-72. *Not in AUC

20. Zunshine, Lisa. Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. *In AUC