Print Resources
- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN41 .B4 1987
A handbook to literature--includes entries for authors, characters,
genres, et cetera.
-
Gale Literary Criticism Series
ALL TITLES HELD IN REFERENCE
Excerpts of literary criticism from
all periods on individual authors.
Use any recent index in the series to search for an author's name.
Also, includes biographical and bibliographical information on authors.
- Drama Criticism
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN1601.D59
Includes excerpts of cricism of the most significant and widely
studied dramatic works from all the world's literatures.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN771 .C59
Use if author's death date is after December 31, 1959 or author is still
living (e.g., William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Iris Murdoch).
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN771.G27
Use if author's death date is 1900 through 1959 (e.g., Willa Cather,
Henry James, Mark Twain)
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN761.N5
Use if author's death date is 1800 through 1899 (e.g., Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
William Wordsworth)
- Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (excluding
Shakespeare)
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN86.L53
Use if author's death date is 1400 through 1799 (e.g., Anne
Bradstreet, Jonathan Swift).
- Shakespearean Criticism
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PR 2965.S43 1984.
Contains excerpts of criticism of Shakespeare's plays and poetry from
the first published appraisals to current evaluations.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Series), volumes
1-
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN451 .D57x v1-
Lengthy biographical entries on playwrights, poets, novelists, short
story writers, and other creative writers from a variety of periods and
countries.
- Granger's Index to Poetry (several indexes)
READY REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN1022.H39 1997
index of poetry in anthologies and collections; includes over 11,000
authors from all parts of the world. Search the indexes by author, title,
first line, last line, or subject.
- Handbook to Literature / William Harmon, C. Hugh Holman. 7th
edition
3RD FLOOR PN41 .H355 1996
- Literary Research Guide: A Guide to reference sources for the
study
of
literatures in English and related topics/ James L. Harner
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PR83.H34 1998
An annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of
British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in
English, and related topics. Reference sources included are
bibliographies, abstracts, surveys
of research, indexes, databases, catalogs, general histories and surveys,
annals, chronologies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks.
- Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American
Authors Through the Beginnings of the Twentieth Century (4
volumes)
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PR83.M7.3 1966
Includes literary criticism excerpts from essays, studies, books,
manuscripts, journals, and letters.
- On Compiling an Annotated Bibliography/ James L.
Harner
3rd Floor Z1001.H33 1985
- Oxford English Dictionary
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PE1625 .O87 1989
A dictionary written on historical principles--giving both current
definitions and the history of words. Each entry, definitions and forms of
a word are arranged in chronological order; definitions are illustrated
with quotations.
- A Reference Guide for English Studies / Michael J.
Marcuse.
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PR56 .M37 1990
Introduces and describes unfamiliar reference sources for research in
any branch of English studies.
- Short Story Index (Series)
REFERENCE 1ST FLOOR PN3325 .C66x
An annual publication that indexes short stories written or translated
into English that have
appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Search by author, title
or subject.
Subscription Databases
World
Wide Web Resources
- Literary
Resources on
the Net
by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor, English Dept., Rutgers
University
a comprehensive database of literary resources via the WWW; searchable
subjects
range from Classical Studies
to Hypertext.
- Voice of the Shuttle
by Alan
Liu, Professor, English Dept.,
UC-Santa Barbara
an extensive collection of electronic resources for
research in the humanities.
- Librarians' Index to
the Internet: Literature and books
Maintained by Carole Leita on the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. This
is a great site for finding full-text works and a variety of literary
links.
- Online Books
Page (11,000+ titles)
from the Unversity of Penn,maintained and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.
The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read
right on the Internet. It includes an index of thousands of on-line books
on the Internet, Pointers to significant directories and archives of
on-line texts, Special exhibits...and more!
- Calls for Papers
maintained by English Dept., University of Penn
- Literary
Listservs
by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor, English Dept., Rutgers University
- Literary
Resources
maintained by the English Dept., University of South Dakota
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