SDCC Library: English Literature & Creative Writing: Primary Sources

This page features books and databases from the San Diego City College Library that is a great starting place for searching for primary source materials related to English Lit & Creative Writing.

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Primary Sources

U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
(Proquest) "US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times (1980-present); Wall Street Journal (1984-present); Washington Post (1987-present); Los Angeles Times (1985-present); and Chicago Tribune (1985-present). New content is available by 8 AM U.S. Eastern time each day. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform." --vendor description
Ethnic NewsWatch [Current] This link opens in a new window
(ProQuest) Articles from ethnic, minority and native press publications. Some full text.

Literature Resource Center Primary Sources
This collection of primary sources is featured in the Gale Literature Resource Center database. Use the "search within publication" box to find results in this subcollection.

Publishers, Readers and the Great War: literature and memory since 1918 by Vincent Trott
ISBN: 1474291473
Publication Date: 2017-10-05
Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain.Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.