Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Librarian Courtney (humanities information, Indiana U.-Bloomington) walks students and researchers through the literary and affiliated resources that are particularly important for investigating literature produced during the early years of American nationhood. Among her topics are library catalogs, contemporary reviews and literary magazines, microform and digital collections, and nationalism and changing implications of words. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 This book recommends best practices for research in the lively and vibrant literature of the American Early Republic. Covering all formats, the volume discusses bibliographies, indexes, research guides, archives and special collections, microform and digital primary text resources, and how they are best exploited for a literary research project.