American Studies 150W Jane Austen in America  

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This guide provides Swem Library print and electronic resources for research on the reputation of Jane Austen and her works in American culture.

Books on topics related to Jane Austen in the Swem Library Catalog by using the subject heading Austen Jane 1775-1817.  Major headings include:

Austen Jane 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation

Austen Jane 1775-1817 Biography

Austen Jane 1775-1817 Film adaptations

Austen Jane 1775-1817 Political and social views

Austen Jane 1775-1817 [Names of individual works]

If Swem Library does not own the title you are looking for, search in OCLC World Cat for libraries where it can be found and enter an Interlibrary Loan request for the title.

You can also try Google Books, a full-text database of books based on holdings in several major research libraries. Books under copyright will be available only in brief, snippet view.

Google Scholar, a multidisciplinary database of scholarly material may provide some useful scholarship but full-text coverage of academic literary titles is  limited.

If you are having problems, please email me at afzoel@wm.edu to make an appointment or call the Reference Desk at 757-221-3067