Summer 2005
Altick, Richard D. Selective Bibliography For The Study Of
English And American Literature, 5th ed. New York: Macmillan
Publishing Co., 1975. Ref Z 2011 .A4
Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: A Guide to Reference
Sources for the Study of Literature in English and Related
Topics. New York: Modern Language Association of America,
1989 Ref PR 83 .H37 1989
Marcuse, Michael J. A Reference Guide for English Studies.
Berkley: University of California Press, 1990. Ref PR 56 .M37
1990
Patterson, Margaret C. Literary Research Guide. Detroit:
Gale Research Co., 1976. Ref Z 6511 .P37
Schweik, Robert C. Reference Sources in English and American
Literature. New York: Norton, 1977. Ref Z 2011 .S415
DICTIONARIES and HANDBOOKS
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. Fort Worth:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993. Ref PN 44.5 .A2 1993
Bateson, F.W. A Guide to English & American Literature,
3rd ed. New York: Longman, 1976. Ref PR 83 .B32 1976
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. New York: Harper, 1946.
Ref PN 43 .B65 1946
Fulghum, Walter B. A Dictionary of Biblical Allusions in English
Literature. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965. Ref
PR 145 .F8
Holman, C. Hugh and William Harmon. A Handbook to Literature,
8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentis Hall, 2000. Ref PN 41
.H355 2000
Preminger, Alex, and Brogan, T.V.F. eds. New Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Ref PN 1021
.N39 1993
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Benet, William Rose. The Reader's Encyclopedia, 3rd ed.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987. Ref PN 41 .B4 1987
Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Ref PR 19 .D73 1985
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers
from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1990. Ref PN 111 .B57 1990
Schlueter, Paul and June Schlueter. An Encyclopedia of British
Women Writers. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. Ref
PR 111 . E54 1988
Stapleton, Michael. The Cambridge Guide to English Literature.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. Ref PR 85 .C28 1983
CRITICAL SURVEYS
Contemporary Literary Criticism, vols. 1-38. Detroit: Gale
Research Co., 1973-1986. Ref PN 771 .C59
Magill, Frank N. Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Pasadena,
California: Salem Press, 1991. Ref PR 821 .C7 1991
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Biography and Genealogy Master Index, 2nd ed., 8 vols.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980. Index Shelf Z 5305 .U56 and
available through Ancestry
Plus
Biography Index. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1946--.Index
Shelf Z 5301 .B5
Havlice, Patricia Pate. Index to Literary Biography. 2
vols. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Ref PN 41 .H38
Kunitz, Stanley and Howard Haycraft. British Authors Before
1800. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1952. Ref PR 105 .K9
Kunitz, Stanley and Howard Haycraft. British Authors of the
Nineteenth Century. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1964. Ref PR 451
.K8 1964
Vinson, James, ed. Contemporary Novelists. London: St.
James Press, 1976. Ref PR 883 .V55 1976
LITERARY HISTORIES
Baugh, Albert C. A Literary History of England, 2nd ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967. Ref PR 83 .B3 1967
Cox, Michael. Oxford Chronology of English Literature. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2002. Reference PR87 .O93 2002.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature.
2 vols. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1960. PR 83 .D29
Ward, A.W. and A.R. Waller. The Cambridge History of English
Literature. 11 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963.
Ref PR 83 .C17
INDEXES
Essay And General Literature Index. New York: H.W. Wilson
Co., 1934 --. Index Shelf 1 AI 3 .E752
Humanities Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974--. Index
Shelf 1 AI 1 .H85 and FirstSearch
MLA International Bibliography Of Books And Articles On The
Modern Languages And Literature. New York: Modern Language
Association Of America, 1969 --. Ref PB 1 .M64 and FirstSearch
The Year's Work in English Studies. Atlantic Highlands,
N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981--. Ref PE 58.E6
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Bell, Inglis and Donald Baird. The English Novel, 1578-1956.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1958. Ref PR 821 .B44
Bond, Donald F. The Eighteenth Century. Northbrook, IL:
AHM Publishing Corp., 1975. Ref PR 441 .B63
Breed, Paul F. and Florence M. Sniderman. Dramatic Criticism
Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1972. Ref PN 1886 .B84
Magill, Frank N. Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism,
4 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1979. Ref PN 523 .M25
Palmer, Helen and Anne Dyson. English Novel Explication: Criticisms
to 1972. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1973. Ref Z 2014 .F5
.P26
Thurston, Jarvis, et al. Short Fiction Criticism. Chicago:
Swallow Press, 1960. Ref PN 3373 .T5
Walker, Warren S. 20th Century Short Story Explication,
2nd ed. New York: Shoe String Press, 1967. Ref PN 3373 .W33