Competency 6: Successive Facet on WorldCat

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For this search, I decided on WorldCat and used the successive facet search. I had tried, to no avail, using Project Muse for this search originally. I realized that WorldCat would be a better database for the search.

Naive Question: I'm writing a paper on Emily Dickinson and her contemporaries. Can you help me?

The facets I chose to explore using World Cat's subject search were:
Dickinson, Emily - 5,316 results
Contemporaries - 3,443 results
American women poets - 3.075 results
Peers - 299

My subject search was: Dickinson, Emily AND contemporaries.
This resulted in 20 records. Below are the citations that I would provide to the patron.

Citations:
Dobson, J. (1989). Dickinson and the strategies of reticence: The woman writer in nineteenth-century america. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Petrino, E.A. (1998). Emily Dickinson and her contemporaries: Women's verse in america, 1820-1885. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.

Bain, R. (1996). Whitman's & Dickinson's contemporaries: An anthology of their verse. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Garbowsky, M.M. (1979). Emily Dickinson's literary community. Thesis: Drew University. Retrieved from WorldCat Database.

Reflection:
WorldCat was a much more appropriate database for my search query than Project Muse. This yielded more search results from which to select titles from. These are book titles that the patron could hopefully check out from the library. I was relieved to see better results on this database after many frustrations and lack of results on other databases.