It's Raining Books

Initial Research:

I have the following books checked out from the UCF Library*. I plan on reading The Factory Girl later today, and once I’ve done that, I’ll be able to look up articles in the MLA and America: History and Life databases. I’ll also be able to go through all these books to see if they can help with my research or not. Wish me luck!

These books were found using the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Conduct of life in literature
• Didactic fiction, America
• Domestic fiction, America
• Diary fiction, America
• America - Literatures (then narrowed by 19th century and United States as geographical location)
• America – Early
• America – Bibliography

I also found some of these books by good old fashioned shelf browsing. Also, if anyone is interested in looking at the fashion/costuming of Early America, go down to the first floor and find the aisle with GR161 (this is fairy tales from various countries). Within that same aisle, right after the fairy/folk tales is the section with fashion and costuming. They had several books on Early American fashion, and it was really neat to see how our authors and their characters were clothed.

*Classmates: If you want to look through any of these books for your own project, just let me know.

List of books so far

Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel. Tampa: U of South Florida P, 1991.

Davis, Cynthia J. and Kathryn West. Women Writers in the United States: a Timeline of Literary, Cultural and Social History. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

MacLeod, Anne Scott. A Moral Tale: Children’s Fiction and American Culture 1820-1860. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1975.

More, Hannah. Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals. Ed. Patricia Demers. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Editions, 2007.

O’Keefe, Deborah. Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books. New York: Continuum, 2000.

Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2005.

Wagner-Martin, Linda, and Cathy N. Davidson. The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

Wechselblatt, Martin. Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1998.

Zaczek, Barbara Maria. Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct Material. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.