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- Search the Literature Online (LION) database to find background and criticism on O'Connor, as well as on individual titles (Wise Blood, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," etc.). You can also search for a subject, such as "American Literature."
- Try the Literature Resource Center database as well for criticism and references on certain works or authors in reference sources, such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism, etc.
- Search the Library Catalog (see "Suggested Subject Headings" below).
- To dig deeper, search the MLA and Humanities Full-Text databases.
These are the works by O'Connor that the Proctor Library owns. If you need a work that is not owned by the Library, please place an Interlibrary Loan request for it.
| Collected Works | -- PS3565 .C57 1988 |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | -- PS3565 .C57 1965, PS3565 .C57 1988 |
| The Habit of Being: Letters | -- PS3565 .C57 Z48 1979 |
| Mystery and Manners, Occasional Prose | -- PS3565 .C57 A6 1969 |
| The Violent Bear it Away | -- PS3565 .C57 1988, PS3565 .C57 V54 1960 |
| Christian Humanism of Flannery O’Connor | -- PS3565 .C57 Z665 1972 |
| The Eternal Crossroads: The Art of Flannery O’Connor | -- PS3565 .C57 Z66 1971 |
| Flannery O’Connor, edited and with an introducation by Harold Bloom | -- available through netLibrary |
| Flannery O’Connor: A Critical Essay | -- PS3565 .C57 Z65 1966 |
| Flannery O’Connor: An Introduction | -- PS3565 .C57 Z82 1991 |
| Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South | -- PS3565 .C57 Z979 2004 |
| Flannery O’Connor and the Language of Apocalypse | -- PS3565 .C57 Z725 1986 |
| Flannery O’Connor: The Imagination of Extremity | -- PS3565 .C57 Z52 1982 |
| Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor | -- PS3565 .C57 Z79 1972 |
| A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South | -- PS261 .C665 2004 |
| Contemporary Authors | -- REF PN451 .C63 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .C59 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | -- REF PS21 .D5 |
| Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .G27 |
To access an electronic book, look it up by the title in the library catalog and click on the link at the bottom of the record. The link will take you to the book in the netLibrary or ebrary database. If you live off-campus, you will need to set up a free account from a computer that is on-campus.
- To see a list of electronic books on Flannery O'Connor, click here.
| American Gargoyles: Flannery O’Connor and the Medieval Grotesque | -- available through netLibrary |
| Flannery O’Connor and the Mystery of Love | -- available through netLibrary |
| True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor | -- available through netLibrary |
| Understanding Flannery O’Connor | -- available through netLibrary |
Use these terms to perform a subject search in the library's catalog. Be sure to browse through the subject list you get to see subtopics.
- Apocalyptic Literature
- Christianity in Literature
- Grotesque in Literature
- Novelists, American -- 20th-Century
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and Interpretation
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Religion
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Technique
- Southern States -- In Literature
- Women and Literature -- Southern States
Use the following library databases to find journal articles about the works of Flannery O'Conner, as well as biographical information, essays, and other critical and reference resources.
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Humanities Full-Text
Indexes articles under the subjects of archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. -
Literature Online (LION)
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. -
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. -
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database goes back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Online Literary Criticism Collection: Flannery O'Connor -- from the Internet Public Library
The Flannery O'Connor -- Andalusia Foundation, Inc.
A Good Writer is Hard to Find: The Search for Flannery O'Connor -- from Literary Traveler E-Zine
| Citing Sources | -- from the Duke University Libraries |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | -- RREF LB2369 .G53 2009 * |
* RREF stands for Ready Reference near the reference desk on the first floor.
Need more help finding resources? Email me at kowens@flagler.edu or visit the Library's Reference Desk.
Last Updated: August 21, 2009