TY  - BOOK
AU  - Altick,Richard D.
AU  - Fenstermaker,John J.
TI  - The art of literary research
SN  - 9780393962406
AV  - PR56 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - English literature
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - American literature
KW  - Literature
N1  - 1 (pages 259-279) and index; 1. Vocation --; 2. The Spirit of Scholarship. 1. Error: Its Prevalence, Progress, and Persistence. 2. Examining the Evidence. 3. Two Applications of the Critical Spirit: Fixing Dates and Testing Authenticity --; 3. Some Scholarly Occupations. 1. Textual Study. 2. Problems of Authorship. 3. The Search for Origins. 4. Tracing Reputation and Influence. 5. Cultivating a Sense of the Past --; 4. Finding Materials --; 5. Libraries --; 6. Making Notes --; 7. The Philosophy of Composition --; 8. The Scholar's Life; 2
N2  - Presents a guide to the purposes, methods, and pleasures of research in English and American literature. Traces recent developments in the field, including the use of the computer to gather and store information and the ongoing revision of the literary canon under the impact of women's studies, African-American studies, and other movements
UR  - http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780393962406.pdf
ER  -