Literature
REF Z 1225.L49 and .L492
Articles on American
Literature
Criticisms of the works of American authors and of aspects of American
literature.
REF Z 6519.P66
Articles on Twentieth Century
Literature
"... bibliography ... collect[s] and annotate[s] scholarly and critical
articles concerned with twentieth century literature which have
appeared from 1954-1970 ..." (p. xii-Vol.1 )
REF Z 1225.B55
Bibliography of American
Literature
A selective bibliography of American authors.
REF Z 1219.C95
Book Review Digest
"Provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and
adult fiction and non-fiction in the English language." (Preface)
REF Z 1035.AI. B6
Book Review Index
Brief citations to book reviews from books and periodicals
REF PR 821.P26 1973
English Novel Explication
"Listing of criticisms which have appeared in books and periodicals in
English and foreign languages." (Introduction)
INDEX REF AI 3.E752
Essay and General Literature
Index
"An author and subject index to essays published in collections, with
particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social
sciences." (Introduction)
INDEX REF AI 3.H85
Humanities Index
A cumulative index to English language periodicals in areas of the
humanities including folklore, language, and literature
REF PN 523.W44 1984
Literary Criticism Index
Index of criticisms of the individual works of authors, arranged
alphabetically.
REF Z 6511.M3
Magill's Bibliography of
Literary Criticism
A listing of studies of works of fiction, drama, and poetry published
in books and periodicals.
REF Z 2011.N45
New Cambridge Bibliography of
English Literature
A detailed reference to Old English, Middle English, and Modern English
literature of the British Isles, arranged chronologically.
REF Z 2014.W65
The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites
A listing of Web Sites, Biographies, Criticism, and Bibliographies on 180 female authors.
REF PE 58.E6
Year's Work in English Studies
A critical survey of English literature from books and articles
grouped by chronological periods.
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REF PS 21.K8
American Authors 1600-1900: A
Biographical Dictionary of American
Literature, Complete in One Volume with 1300 Biographies and 400
Portraits
REF PN 41.B4 1987
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia.
A one volume encyclopedia with over 9,000 entries relating to
literature.
REF PR 105.K9 1952
British Authors Before 1800:
A Biographical Dictionary, Complete in One
Volume with 650 Biographies and 220 Portraits
REF PR 83.C22 1907
Cambridge History of english
Literature.
A chronological survey of literature covering from the earliest times
to the end of the 19th century.
REF PN 44.5.S3 1967
Current Literary Terms (A
Concise Dictionary of their Origin and Use).
Definitions, with examples, of literary terms from all branches of
literature.
REF PN 774.E5 1999
Encyclopedia of World
Literature in the 20th Century.
"This work is an attempt to cover .,.. the major aspects of the
literature of the twentieth century, on a global scale."
Cross referenced (p. xxxi, Vol.1 "General Scope")
REF PN 451.K8
European Authors 1000-1900: A
biographical Dictionary of European
Literature.
Short biographies of european authors.
REF PB 41.H6 1992
Handbook to Literature.
"An alphabetical listing of words and phrases pertaining to the study
of English and American literature." (Preface)
REF PS 551.L5
Library of Southern Literature
Biographical and critical sketches of Southern authors, with excerpts
from their works.
REF PN 44.M33 1966
Masterplots: 2,010 Plot
Stories & Essay Reviews from the World's
Fine Literature.
Entries are arranged by title and include plot summaries, character
descriptions, and critical evaluations of 2-4 pages.
REF PN 44.M35
1,300 Critical Evaluations of
Selected Novels and Plays
Arranged alphabetically by titles; brief criticisms and descriptions.
REF PS 21.H3 1995
Oxford Companion to American
Literature
A dictionary of articles on authors, titles, characters and literary
terms in American literature.
REF PR 19.O94 2000
Oxford Companion to English
Literature
A dictionary of articles on authors, titles, characters, and literary
terms in English literature.
REF PQ 41.H3
Oxford Companion to French
Literature
A dictionary of articles on authors, titles, characters, and literary
terms in French literature.
REF PT 41.G3 1986
Oxford Companion to German
Literature
A dictionary of brief articles on authors, titles, characters, and
literary terms in German literature.
REF PN 44.5.P3 1989
The Poet's Dictionary: A
Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices
Describes literary terms; "an anthology ... of expertly chosen
illustrations..." (p.ix)
REF PN 771.K86
Twentieth Century Authors: A
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature
Short biographical entries on authors of all nations.
REF PS 147.A4
American Women Writers: A
critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present
Essays on American women writers of all periods
REF PA 3002.A5 1982
Ancient Writers: Greece and
Rome.
Essays on authors of ancient Greece and Rome, arranged in chronological
order
REF PN 3451.C65 1983
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
"Critical assessments of 272 authors whose major works are in the field
of the novel ..." (Preface)
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REF PS 129.A55
American Writers (AMW)
"Provides information about the lives, careers and works of American
writers." (Introduction)
REF PS 153.N5 B556 1992
Black Literature Criticism
(BLC)
Criticisms of the works of 125 black authors; authors' works from many
nations and from 200 years past
REF PR 85.B688
British Writers (BRW)
Literary biographies of British authors of all periods.
REF PN 681.5.C57
Classical and Medieval
Literature Criticism (CMLC)
Contains criticism and commentary on works through the fourteenth
century.
REF PN 771.C6
Contemporary Authors
(CA, CANR)
Includes brief biographies and bibliographies of each author and his
works. The
Contemporary
Authors: New Revision Series includes biographies which have
required significant changes since first publication in Contemporary
Authors.
REF PN 771.C59
Contemporary Literary
Criticism (CLC)
Contains scholarly and popular criticism of over 2,000 authors.
REF PN 451.A54
Dictionary of Literary
Biography (DLB)
Entries of several pages each on the life and works of authors,
including many illustrations.
REF PN 501.E9 1992
European Writers (EW)
"68 unabridged essays chosen ... from Scribner's fourteen volume
European Writers ... with a
view toward including those authors and themes most often studied ..."
(Publisher's Note, Vol. 1, p. v)
REF PN 86.L53 1984
Literature Criticism from
1400 to 1800 (LC)
Criticism of world authors from the 15th through 18th centuries.
REF PN 761.N5
Nineteenth Century Literary
Criticism (NCLC)
Contains excerpts of criticism for over 17,000 works of the nineteenth
century.
REF PN 1010.P499
Poetry Criticism (PC)
Contains excerpts of criticism of frequently studied writers, and poems.
REF PR 2965.G27
Shakespearean Criticism
(SC)
Provides information about Shakespeare's dramas and poetry as well as
excerpts of significant criticism.
REF PN 3373.S386
Short Story Criticism
(SSC)
Contains excerpts of criticism on the world's greatest short story
writers.
REF PN 771.G27
Twentieth Century Literary
Criticism (TCLC)
Serves as an introduction to authors who died between 1900-1999 along
with excerpts of significant criticism.
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| American Literature |
Poetry |
| American Poetry Review |
Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| American Transcendental Quarterly |
Shakespeare Quarterly
|
| Chaucer Review |
Southern Literary Messenger |
| Contemporary Literature |
Southern Poetry Review |
| Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction |
Speculum
|
| Early American Literature |
Studies in the Literary
Imagination |
| ELH |
Texas Studies in Literature and
Language |
| English Literary Renaissance |
Twentieth Century Literature |
| Modern Fiction Studies |
World Literature Today
|
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REF Z 1231.D7 1979
American Drama Criticism
Alphabetical lists of American authors, including their dramatic works
and lists of criticisms pertaining to the works.
REF PR 623.C75 1994
Critical Survey of Drama
Includes articles on 240 dramatists and essays of aspects of
English language drama.
REF PN 1625.D72
Drama Criticism: Criticism of
the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works from All the
World's Literature.
REF PN 1625.M3 1984
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of
World Drama
Articles on playwrights and topics relating to theatre. Includes
bibliographies
REF PN 6112.5.M37 1990
Masterplots II: Drama Series
Entries of 4-6 pages are arranged by title of play; includes plot
summary and evaluation.
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REF PN 3321.C7 1993
Critical Survey of Short
Fiction
Includes essays on aspects of short fiction in last volume.
Volumes arranged by the authors' names.
REF PN 3326.M27 1986
Masterplots II: Short Story
Series
Entries are arranged by title and include a 2-4 page plot summary and
critical evaluation.
REF PN 3373.S386
Short Story Criticism:
Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers
REF Z 5917.S5C6
Short Story Index
An index to stories which have been published in book collections and
periodicals.
REF Z 5917.S5 W33
Twentieth Century Short Story
Explication
A bibliography of interpretations for short stories, including a list
of sources used.
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REF PN 6082.C57 1992
The Columbia Granger;s
Dictionary of Poetry Quotations
Best known lines of English language poets; arranged alphabetically by
poet. Subject and keyword indexes.
REF PR 502.C85 1992
Critical Survey of Poetry
Critical essays (length around 10 pages) of English poets and poetry
from Beowulf to the present.
REF PR 401.E9
The Explicator Cyclopedia
Short explications of a large number of poems including both English
and American poets.
REF PN 1021 or 1022. G7 and 1022.H39
Granger's Index to Poetry
Indexes a large number of poetry collections by title, first line, last
line ( in the 10th edition), and author. Later editions called
The Columbia Granger's Index to
Poetry.
REF PR 311.M34
Guide to British Poetry
Explication
Continues the checklist of interpretations from
Poetry Explication for
British poetry.
REF PN 1110.5.M37
Masterplots II: Poetry Series
Entries of 3-5 pages each are arranged by title and include a poem
summary and critical evaluation.
REF PN 1010.P499
Poetry Criticism
REF PR 502.K8
Poetry Explication
Index to explications of American and British poetry from books and
journals.
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Academic
Search Premier via EBSCOhost (full text)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering
academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This
database is updated on a daily basis.
Reviews of over 7,000 current English language fiction and nonfiction
books each year.
Critical
Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers via Greenwood (full
text)
An in-depth analysis of current, best selling fiction providing details
about the complexities of these carefully selected titles.
and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
JSTOR
(full text)
A collection of full text scholarly journals in the following subject
areas: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology,
Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics,
Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and
Statistics
Literary
Index via Gale Group
An index to Gale's literature series.
Literature
in Context via Greenwood (full text)
Curriculum based Literature in Context series is a rich collection of
primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps
students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu
associated with major literary works.
Literature
Online via ProQuest (full text)
A database of more than 300,000 works of English and American poetry,
drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary
sources.
MLA
Directory of Periodicals via EBSCOhost
The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information for over 7,000
language, literature and folklore journals and series; of these, over
4,000 are currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
MLA
International Bibliography via EBSCOhost (full text)
MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles,
books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association,
the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and
contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and
series and 1,000 book publishers.
Poetry
via Chadwyck-Healey (full text)
Collection of poetry databases.
Project
MUSE via Johns Hopkins University Press (full text)
Project MUSE provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription
access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and
humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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An
Analytic Bibliography of On-line Neo-Latin Texts
An analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance
and
later that are freely available to the general public on the Web.
Bibliomania
Free Online Literature with more than 2000
Classic Texts.
Chaucer
MetaPage
This project was initiated at the 33rd
International Congress of
Medieval Studies by a group of medievalists interested in promoting
Chaucer studies on the WWW.
Dime
Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Stanford's
Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual
items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series
and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger
and Saturday Night.
Documenting the
American South
Documenting
the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern
history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the
first decades of the 20th century.
Edith
Wharton Society
The
Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested
persons an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the
life and works of this author.
The
Gothic
Literature Page
A
web site devoted to study of Gothic fiction in England from 1764 to
1840
which is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel
access to the growing number of resources available on the web.
Internet
Classics Archive
441 searchable works of classic literature by 59
different authors.
Into the
Wardrobe
A web site devoted to C. S. Lewis.
Life and Works
of Herman Melville
The
Life and Works of Herman Melville is a publication dedicated to
disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the
World Wide Web.
Literary
Criticism
The
IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical
web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author,
by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary
Resources on the Net
This set of pages is a 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.
Literary
Traveler
Literary
Traveler is dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination.
It brings you inspiring, informative articles about writers, creative
artists, and the places that they lived and traveled. Literary Traveler
has been featured in The New York Times, and The USA Today, and The
Wall Street Journal.
Modern
American Poetry
A comprehensive learning environment and
scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry.
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
Internet resources about Shakespeare.
The
Online
Books Page
Contains listings of free online books.
Online
Literature Library
An online library of literature.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is one of the oldest e-book sites on the web.
There are over 6,000 full text works available.
Romantic Circles
A Web site devoted to the study of Romantic period
literature and culture.
Shakespeare:
Internet
Editions
Scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's
plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet.
Shakespeare Resource
Center
Collected links from all over the World Wide Web
of information of all sorts on William Shakespeare.
Sources
Provides
a rationale for why, and offers principles for determining when and
how, you should cite sources.
The Victorian Web
Resources about literature, history, and culture in the age of
Victoria.
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