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English Literature Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
--Reference Stacks-- PN 41 .B4
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
--Reference Stacks-- PN 669 .E53

Handbooks

The Cambridge Guide to English Literature
--Reference Stacks-- PR 85 .C28
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
--Reference Stacks-- PR 85 .C29
A Companion to the Gothic
--Reference Stacks-- PR 830 .T3 C65
Guide to British Poetry Explication
--Reference Stacks-- PR 311 .M34
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
--Reference Stacks-- PR 19 .H3
The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland
--Reference Stacks-- PR 109 .E18
A Reference Guide to English Literature
--Reference Stacks-- PR 106 .S7
The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
--Reference Stacks-- PR 871 .S87

Dictionaries

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
--online-- netLibrary e-book
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
--Reference Stacks-- PN 41 .C83

Guides to the Literature

Literary Research Guide
--Reference Stacks-- Z 2011 .H34
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students
--Reference Stacks-- PR 56 .B34

Style Manuals

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
--Reference Stacks-- LB 2369 .G53

Bibliographies

Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899 : an Annotated Biobibliography
--Reference Stacks-- PR 591 .R45
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
--3rd Floor Bound Serials and Reference Stacks-- P1 .M65 (1956-2001)

Biographies

Contemporary Authors
--Reference Stacks-- PN 450 .C62 (100+ vol)
Cyclopedia of World Authors
--Reference Stacks-- PN 451 .M36
Dictionary of Literary Biography
--Reference Stacks-- PS 221 .D5 (300+ vol)
European Writers
--Reference Stacks-- PN 501 .E9 (14 vol)
Feminist Writers
--Reference Stacks-- PN 451 .F46
Literature Resource Center -- Provides full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of the work of more than 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe : an Encyclopedia
--Reference Stacks-- PN 471 .W565

Collections of Criticism

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 681.5 .C57 (28 vol)
Contemporary Literary Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 771 .C59 (100+ vol)
Drama Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 1601 .D59 (14 vol)
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
--Reference Stacks-- PN 86 .L56 (41 vol)
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 86 .L56 (100+ vol)
Poetry Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 1010 .P499 (10 vol)
Shakespearean Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PR 2965 .S44 (80 vol)
Short Story Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 3373 .S386 (59 vol)
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
--Reference Stacks-- PN 94 .T83 (100+ vol)

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.

AHSearch (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)-- Indexes articles in arts and humanities journals and in selected social science and science journals.

JSTOR-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies.

Literature Resource Center -- Provides full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of the work of more than 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

MLA International Bibliography-- Indexes articles from literary and language journals, books essay collections, conference proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Provides links to small selection of full-text articles.

Oxford English Dictionary-- Provides full-text definitions, pronunciations, etymology, timeline and quotations for words in current usage as well as old words.

Project Muse-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.

ProQuest Research Library-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of popular and scholarly periodicals from many disciplines.

Scribner Writers Series-- Provides full-text biographies, essays, bibliographies and articles on writers and literary genres throughout history.

Internet Sites

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism -- Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Literary Resources on the Net -- Collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics

Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English -- Provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources in the humanities disciplines.