English 126A - American Novel 19th Century
You need a poem, article, or story in a magazine from 1790-1852! What to do!
UCR Libraries a great online sources that beats GOOGLE hands down.
It is called APS, American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900.
How to search APS Once you are in APS, select Search for Articles. You will be taken to the Basic Search Screen.
In the Basic Search box, type in your search terms (something related to your topic of equality or domesticity).
Don't hit Search yet.
Limit your search to the dates you need: 01/01/1790 TO: 12/31/1852
From: To: Now click on the Search button!
You should retrieve quite a few results.
For those of you interested in only poems or stories, press
More Search Options
You will see these options:
Publication title: Browse publications About Author: About Document type: Publication type: Look for terms in: About Sort results by: Under Document type, you can limit to: Poem for instance. Or you can limit to a particular magazine, such as : Ladies Home Journal, Massachusetts Magazine, or Weekly Visitor, or Ladies' Miscellany (1802-1806).
Please note: Putnam's Monthly Magazine did not start publication until 1853 and won't work for your assignment.
This online source does not include Harper's New Monthly (which did not begin publication until 1850).
If you are using this or other library resources from home, you need to click on this button:
Log in using your Net ID and Net ID Password (Same as Webmail)
Click on UCR Libraries, return to our website, and select your online resource. More information remote access
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