Links from Tuesday's class

At the beginning of Tuesday's class, we talked about a number of ways to find calls for papers. Here are some of the links discussed:

1. The CFP page at the University of Pennsylvania. http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/ This is a searchable site, but if you use an RSS feed reader, you can also subscribe to the areas that interest you and receive those calls for papers automatically.

2. There are lots of RSS feed readers available, but a good one to start with is Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/. If you already have a Gmail account, log into your Gmail and you'll see a link for "Reader" at the top left. You can subscribe to any site that publishes an RSS feed by clicking on the little orange square. (For example, you could get the updates from our blog by clicking on the orange square.)

3. Although it wasn't mentioned in class, you can also subscribe to the RSS feed of tables of contents of journals in this way. A few possibilities are American Literature and American Literary History. 

4. Here are some of the other sites with calls for papers:

• H-AMSTDY: http://www.h-net.org/~amstdy/ 
• American Literature Association (has information on author societies; most information is in .doc format): http://www.americanliterature.org . Deadlines for proposals for papers organized by societies are usually mid-December through mid-January.
•  MLA. http://www.mla.org. The deadlines for MLA are usually around March 1-15.
• American Studies Association: http://www.theasa.net/. Panel proposals are due in mid- to late January. 
• Modernist Studies Association: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/.
• Popular Culture Association (especially good for gaming, scifi, visual culture): http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
• SSAWW: http://www.ssaww.org/.

Resources mentioned in class

Some of you already use Google Scholar in addition to the MLA Bibliography (in Ebsco) and other resources. If you want to access the materials that you find in Google Scholar, or at least the ones that WSU has, you need to enter it through the WSU link and sign in. This is only true if you're searching from off-campus; if you're on campus, you don't need to click on this link: http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2097/

You can also find the link here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jourbib.htm. This page will be updated with call numbers and links.

Books on Sherwood Anderson

The book on new approaches to Sherwood Anderson that I mentioned in class is Robert Dunne's A New Book of the Grotesques. You can get it through Summit; it's not available yet in our library. Walter Rideout's bibliography is available in the library, however (PS3501.N4 Z773 2006 v.1), as is Mark Whalan's Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer. 

Sherwood Anderson

Here is the Sherwood Anderson animation I mentioned in class today and a link to the text of the story:

New bibliography for The Valley of the Moon

I've put up a new bibliography for The Valley of the Moon: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/london_valleybib.htm.  I've included some links to the articles; please let me know whether they work for you, if you click on them.

Information from yesterday's class

You can find links to London materials and pictures here. The Jack London's World site has a lot of pictures and information: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/london.htm

Here's a slide show on London's Beauty Ranch: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lonslide1.htm

To use the "WSU Lookup" applet for Firefox I showed you, go to http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/index.html and drag the link to the Bookmarks bar (right below the address bar) in Firefox. If you see a book in Amazon.com and want to know whether the WSU library has it, click on that applet when you're at the Amazon.com page for that book.  It's supposed to work for Barnes and Noble, too, but it doesn't seem to.