This course research guide is designed to support Spanish 135W.2 - a writing-intensive course for Spanish majors only. The theme of this section is illustrated 19th and 20th-century literature in Spain which will begin with Galdós, who believed his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1879) were finally “complete” when the second edition was published with the addition of approximately sixty illustrations per novel, penned by fourteen different artists. Students will be expected to read fifty to seventy-five pages a week of different illustrated works by authors, who, like Galdós, were exploring ways of increasing their expressive possibilities through an “alliance” with the visual medium of drawing, ultimately upstaged by its trendier technological cousins, film and photography.
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Selected resources
Listed below are a few sources and other starting points for researching illustrated Spanish literature from the 19th and 20th centuries. While locating illustrated editions of novels or short stories is not easy, one strategy is to use WorldCat (via Melvyl, WorldCat.org, or WorldCat on FirstSearch) and search by a work or author name with the truncated term "ilustra*." You could also employ the same technique in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Another approach is to research an illustrator. e.g.) Luis Bagaría, Antonio Carnicero, Arturo Mélida y Alinari, Apelles Mestres i Oñós, Eusebi Planas, etc.
Carlos Sáenz de Tejada
/ Santiago Arcediano, José Antonio García Díez. [Spain]: Fundación Caja de Ahorros de Vitoria y Alava, [1993]. Main Stacks NC285.Z9 S24 1993
*Diccionario biográfico de ilustradores españoles del siglo XIX
/ Pedro Casado Cimiano. Madrid: Ollero y Ramos, c2006. Art History/Classics Reference NC987 .C368 2006 - Includes two excellent bibliographies for obras and revistas ilustradas
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*Literatura ilustrada decimonónica: 57 perspectivas
/ Borja Rodríguez Gutierrez, Raquel Gutiérrez Sebastián (Eds.). Santander: PUbliCan, Ediciones de la Universidad de Cantabria : Instituto Cántabro de Estudios Literarios 19 (ICEL 19), 2011. UCB copy still in process but UCSC and Stanford copies can be borrowed.
*Revistas literarias españolas del siglo XX (1919-1975)
/ Manuel J. Ramos Ortega, edición y coordinación general; José María Barrera López et al., coordinadores de capítulos. Madrid: Ollero y Ramos, 2005.
Doe Reference PQ6072.R448 2005 v.1-3
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Listed below is a broad selection of article indexes recommended for research in Spanish and Portuguese. For additional resources, please consult the Library's Electronic Resource Finder.
Historical Periodicals Directory / Eric H. Boehm, Barbara H. Pope, and Marie S. Ensign, editors. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1981-c1986. Main Stacks D20 .H53 v.1-5
Revistas literarias españolas del siglo XX (1919-1975) / Manuel J. Ramos Ortega, edición y coordinación general; José María Barrera López et al., coordinadores de capítulos. Madrid: Ollero y Ramos, 2005. Doe Reference PQ6072.R448 2005 v.1-3
Library Databases
MLA International Bibliography Indexes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola Desde 1980 Includes over 80,000 records for books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congresses, and other miscellaneous material on subjects including literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors.
Basque Database Provides access to information about Basque topics in journal articles, edited books, dissertations and other publications. Continues the work of Jon Bilbao (1914-1994), "The Father of Basque Bibliography." His 15-volume Eusko-Bibliographia covers all publications written by or about Basques through 1980, containing a half million citations.
Compludoc Spanish index of scholarly journals. Includes tables of contents.
CSIC Bases de Datos Bibliograficas (Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) One of four freely available article summary databases, this one provides citations to thousands of scholarly journals in the social sciences and the humanities mainly published in Spain. They mostly include citations from academic journals, but also a selection of congress and conference proceedings, serials, compilations, reports and monographs. Perform keyword searches in all journals included ("consulta conjunta") or by thematic area ("area tematica").
Dialnet Lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Subjects covered include primarily the sciences and technology, but also the social sciences, humanities, education, business, and law. Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities under the leadership of the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Among the broad subjects Covered are women in art, women in religion, marriage, sexuality and family.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Indexes books, journals and proceedings to create an annual bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars, alternating between focusing on the humanities and the social sciences.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Indexes books, journals, conference proceedings, and official documents on Hispanic America (North, Central, and South), Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Historical Abstracts Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles covered were written from 1954 to the present.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Indexes over 3000 journals, books, chapters, and book reviews in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology from more than 100 countries. More than 70 languages are represented, with 30% percent of records published in languages other than English.
ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance Indexes over 300 journal titles to create a bibliography of articles, essays, books and reviews related to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700). Includes a number of databases useful to the fields of classical, medieval, and Renaissance studies such as Iter Italicum, a catalog of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections around the world, International Directory of Scholars, International Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutes, and Scholars of Early Modern Studies (volume 34).
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Indexes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers by providing access to content of numerous print counterparts including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
PAIS International Indexes books, journals, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and web sources related to public policy, politics, economics, and social issues worldwide. Includes publications from over 120 countries. Some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Archive covers English-language material only.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) Indexes millions of articles published in over 4,700 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
R-CSIC CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) provides open access to more than 30 scholarly journals from Spain in a broad range of disciplines. See also Digital.CSIC.
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online Indexes over 650 scholarly online journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly those in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.
Sociological Abstracts Indexes over 1,900 journals, books, dissertations, and reviews in the social sciences on sociological topics as well as selected anthropology, criminology, demography, law, social psychology, and urban development.
TRACES A freely accessible bibliographical database that collocates all that has been published on Catalan language and literature. The TRACES project was created in 1987 by the Grup d'Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporania (GELCC) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Women's Studies International Indexes books, journals, magazines, and other resources related to research and commentary on women and women's issues, feminism, and gender. Platform change: All NISC databases have switched to the EBSCOhost interface.
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Literary journals and other illustrated periodicals
L'Avenç.
Barcelona, 1881-1884. Bound any 2:16(July 1883)-2:[35](June 1884); 2.epoca, any 3(1891)-any 4(1892). Bancroft AP95.C3 A8
Blanco y negro.
Madrid: Prensa Española [etc.], 1891-1936. f AP60 .B6, most shelved in NRLF; Pre-1923 online via HathiTrust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000060066
Café con gotas [facsimile]
/ Grupo de Investigación Valle-Inclán. f AP111 .C34 1999 Main Stacks f AP111 .C34 1999
La Flaca.
Barcelona: Juan Vazquez, 1869-1873. Bancroft f AP95.C3 F55 Bound 1(Mar 1869)-100(Sept 3, 1871); 2:38(Nov 7, 1872)-2:84(Oct 4, 1873) Bound with La Carcajada, v. 1-2.
Gedeón.
Madrid, [s.n., 1895-1912] Main Stacks fAP111 .G4 Bound no.1(ãno 1, Nov 14, 1895)-293, 295-394, 396-417, 419-427, 429, 432-498, 501-573, 575-797, 802-815, 818-825, 827-860(ãno 18, 1912), some in NRLF
Gil Blas.
Madrid. Main Stacks f AP111 .G5 Nov 1864(1)-June 1866(3), Jan 1872-Sept 1872(9)
Grecia: revista de literatura [facsimile]
Málaga, Spain: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 1998. Main Stacks Q6174 .G74 BOUND 1(Oct 12, 1918)-50(Nov 1, 1920)/
La ilustración española y americana.
Madrid: [s.n., 1869-1921]. Click title for microfilm and print holdings; online via HathiTrust: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000554227
E-book and e-journal collections, full-text online databases, and other digitized or born digital corpa in Spanish and Portuguese are listed below. Consult Article Databases and Indexes under the Research Tools tab to discover articles available in both print and electronic formats.
The Library offers over 130 e-book and text collections in specific subject areas. Many of these e-books also available through OskiCat and Melvyl. You can limit your search in OskiCat to "Available online," and in Melvyl to "Online resources."
HathiTrust Pronounced "hah-tee", this cooperative system contains millions of books scanned from UC and other major research libraries, including those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive. Search on information about the book (such as author or title), or words in the text. Full text is available for items that are not protected by copyright. Items in the HathiTrust catalog can be grouped into collections and shared online. For details, see the FAQ page.
Google Book Search Books on many subjects, including titles from the UC libraries, digitized in partnership with Google. Full text can be displayed only if the book is out of copyright (generally, published before 1923) or if the copyright holder has given permission.
Internet Archive: Text Archive Several hundred thousand books in the public domain, from the Open Content Alliance (OCA). Includes many books from our collections.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 1,400 titles on a wide range of subjects from the University of California Press. Includes about 30% of UC Press books, both in and out of print. Books can be viewed but not downloaded.
Spanish and Portuguese Electronic Text Collections
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana: Colecciones Digitales Provides access to several large digital collections including: Quijote, Posters of the Republic and Civil War, Cartography (16th - 19th centuries); Hispanic iconography, Goya, and Classic Spanish Works.
Biblioteca Virtual Miquel de Cervantes Digital library that provides free electronic access to one of the world's largest collections of digitized books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, dissertations, images and audio-visual resources.
Cervantes Project / Proyecto Cervantes The Cervantes Project is composed of the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO), the Cervantes Digital Library which are electronic editions of Cervantes' complete works) and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI).
Digital Scriptorium A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. Among the participating institutions to this project are the Bancroft Library, the Robbins Collection, and the Hargrove Music Library at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and the New York Public Library.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Lists literary texts freely available on the Internet in Western European languages other than English. Languages included are: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse and Icelandic, Portuguese, Romanian, Provencal, Spanish, Swedish.
Europeana Provides open access to more than 15 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from more than 1500 European institutions.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook Provides access selected excerpts to sources particularly useful for the teaching of Medieval Studies. Also includes full-texts fo medieval sources and a section on ancient, medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources.
LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online Includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation focusing on Iberian history from the 5th to the 17th century. The list of texts included is based on recent but out-of-print university press monographs.
Lletra (Catalan Literature Online) Includes the works of Catalan authors such as: Ausias March, Mrece Rodoreda, Quim Monzo, Ramon Llull, Jesus Moncada, Albert Sanchez Pinol, Carme Riera, Joan Brossa, etc. The site also serves as a gateway to other sites on Catalan literature.
Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro Contains the full-text of more than 800 plays written by 16 Spanish dramatists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Dramatists included are: Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Agustin Moreto, etc.
American West.
