Locating Print Resources

The Scarlet Letter is located in the fiction section; look for FIC Haw. Commentaries and analyses are located in the non-fiction section - 813. Check 921 HAW for biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Check the catalog for specific books.

For more help with analyses, character and plot, try these reference materials:

Title	Call Number
Magill's Masterplots	REF 809 MAS V. 10
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism	REF 809 NIN V. 2
Imaginary People	REF 809 PRI
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction Biography & Resources	REF 809.3 BEA V. 2
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction Analyses	REF 809.3 BEA V. 6
American Writers	REF 810.9 AME V. 2
The American Renaissance in New England	REF 810.9 AME V. 1

Databases

Pick up a copy of "Biblioteca Las Americas Digital Resources" at the reference desk for home access codes and passwords.

Search the databases and you will retrieve many documents pertaining to the book, including criticisms, Monarch notes, and essays on Puritanism, feminism, etc. Suggested keywords: "scarlet letter" "nathaniel hawthorne" "puritanism" Try bigchalk, EBSCO - search MagillOnAuthors and MagillOnLiterature, and TLC first.

Websites

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/essays/readessa.htm -- Bedford/St. Martin's hints for reading and writing about essays, which may assist you when writing an essay. Go to the home page and you can create an account to help you manage your research.

http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html -- Eldritch Press' searchable site has many links to works and other sites about Hawthorne.

http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/ -- Wright American Fiction 1851-1875.

http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/nhg.shtml -- Nathaniel Hawthorne was a member of the Bowdoin College class of 1825. Bowdoin has letters, documents, essays, and other records (1737-1986) relating to Nathaniel Hawthorne, including correspondence of the Hathorne and Manning families.

http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html -- Hawthorne in Salem - Use the menu bar at the left to navigate this site.

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ -- The Internet Public Library site is an online literary criticism collection with reliable information and good links for many authors and their works.

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html -- Rhetorical Terms from The University of Kentucky.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/shakespeare/Literary.Terms.Menu.html -- Dictionary of Literary Terms from the LA Unified School District.

 Citation Guides

Handouts on APA and MLA format are located on the shelf by the computers.

Reference books - Check them out - REF 808.

http://www.noodletools.com - Passwords are available at the library.