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Reference Works: General, Subject, Print Indexes and Literary Criticism Series
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General Resources

• Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature - PN41.C3 LRC-R
  Includes "Histories of the Literature of the World," "General Literary Subjects," and biographies of authors.
• Companion to the American Short Story - PS374.S5F33 LRC-R
  See Table of Contents. Includes national literatures, forms of literature, articles on individual authors (with some pictures), and a list of Nobel Prize winners for literature 1901-1962.
• Concise Encyclopedia of Modern World Literature - PN41.C64 LRC-R
  See Table of Contents. Includes national literatures, forms of literature, articles on individual authors (with some pictures), and a list of Nobel Prize winners for literature 1901-1962.
• A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory - PN41.C83 LRC-R
• A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works - PN451.C99 LRC-R
• Handbook to Literature - PN41.H6 LRC-R

Subject Specific Resources

• African-American Writers - PS153.N5.A3444 LRC-R
• Asian American Novelists - PS153.A84.A825 LRC-R
• Flannery O'Conner: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism - PS3565.C57.Z857 LRC-R  
• Harlem Renaissance - NX512.3.A35R63 LRC-R
• Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature - PN3433.8.M24 LRC-R
• Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes - PS153.I52.W47 LRC-R
• The Oxford Companion to Women's Writings in the United States - PS147.O94 LRC-R
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1975-1991 - PN3448.S45R4212 LRC-R

Print Indexes

• Granger's Index to Poetry - PN1022.G7 LRC-R
• Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism: Selected Sources for the Study of More than 2,500 Outstanding Works of Western Literature - Z6511.M25 LRC-5th floor
• Play Index - Z5781.P53 LRC-R
• Plot Locator: An Index to Summaries of Fiction and Non-fiction - PN44.P58 LRC-R
• Short Story Index - Z5917.S5C6 LRC-R

Literary Criticism Series

The Literary Criticism Series, located in the PN call number section of the Reference Room, is an extensive set that covers 1400-1800, 19th Century, 20th Century, and Contemporary Literature. The series also includes poetry and drama sets in addition to other works. The Gale Literary Index, listed below under "Databases," is an index to the Literary Criticism Series.

• Contemporary Literary Criticism (authors now living or who died after December 31, 1959) - PN771.C59 LRC-R
• Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (authors who died between 1400 and 1700) - PN86.L56 LRC-R
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (authors who died between 1800 and 1899) - PN761.N5 LRC-R
• Poetry Criticism (poets) - PN1010.P499 LRC-R
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (authors who died between 1900 and 1959) - PN771.T8 LRC-R

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Subject Databases Biography Resource Center   Humanities International Complete   The Literary Encyclopedia   Literary Index   MLA International Bibliography   Other Suggested Databases Academic Search Premier    MasterFile Premier

Bartleby.com

http://www.bartleby.com
Literary site with access to reference sources, older classics and some copyrighted titles. Includes fiction, non-fiction, and verse.

Chaucer MetaPage

http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer
Portal for Chaucer resources on the Internet.

ComicsResearch by Gene Kannenberg's, features The Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies.

http://home.earthlink.net/~comicsresearch/main.html

Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga University

http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/
Links to American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites. Presents a chronological timeline of events in American literature.

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

English Literature and Religion

http://www.english.umd.edu/englfac/WPeterson/ELR/elr.htm
By William S. Peterson, University of Maryland

Literary Resources on the Net

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Provides links to American literature sites. Compiled by Jack P. Lynch, Ph.D. candidate in English.

The Modern Word

http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm
Focuses of 20th and 21st century authors. Includes reviews, essays, profiles and more.

The New Chaucer Society

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/

The Perseus Digital Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Includes literary collections of primary and secondary materials from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

Wright American Fiction, 1951-1875

http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/
A digital library of early American fiction. Hosted by Indiana University.

Directories and Portals

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature and Books

http://lii.org/search/file/literature

Selected web sites have been evaluated by librarians. Includes numerous subject categories such as literature by country, authors, folklore, fiction by genre, and full text works.