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PR 56 .B34 2000 Reference
Baker, Nancy L. & Nancy Huling. A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
A guide to introduce undergraduate English literature students to library research. Explains the use of various library tools, including indexes, dictionaries, bibliographies, concordances, and literary encyclopedias.

PR 56 .M37 1990 Reference
Marcuse, Michael J. A Reference Guide for English Studies. Berkeley: U of California Press.
Current through 1985, this selective guide provides lists of reference works useful to particular areas of English studies. Individual sections, such as medieval literature, restoration literature, nineteenth century literature, etc., list guides and reviews of research, bibliographies, and other reference works. Most entries are annotated. Person, title and subject indexes provide access.

Z 2011 .B74 1998 Reference
Bracken, James K. Reference Works in British and American Literature. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Focuses on reference resources devoted to individual writers. Lists major bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, concordances and journals devoted to individual writers.

Z 2011 .H34 2002 Reference
Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies. 4th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
A selective and annotated guide to reference sources for the study of English literature (all regions). Dealing with different genres of literature, it provides listings for important bibliographies, abstracts, surveys of research, indexes, databases, catalogues, general histories, annals, chronologies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks. The resource does not list extremely basic reference sources and is geared towards more advanced studies of English literature.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. It is largely focused on British literature, although French and American writers are also included. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for dictionary of literary biography in the U of T catalogue. Also available online in the Literature Resource Centre.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Wonderfully cross-referenced, this online guide provides alphabetically-arranged entries to key figures, topics, concepts, and schools of thought in literary theory and criticism. All entries are signed and contain bibliographies outlining key works for further study.

Literature Resource Center
The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on the Gale Group's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

MagillonLiterature Plus
Source for reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including Masterplots and Masterplots II titles; the Cyclopedia of World Authors; the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters; and 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
A online resource that allows quick look-ups of commonly used literary terms.

Twayne's Authors Series (search for this title via U of T Library page)
The Twayne Authors Series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, or the development of literary genres. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of authors' works, these studies take account of major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism, and provide new critical insights and original points of view. Each treatment of an author averages from 175 to 200 pages in length.

PN 56 .S9 F47 1999 Reference
Ferber, Michael. A Dictionary of Literary Symbols. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Explains symbols frequently appearing in Western literature, giving a history of their use and the contexts in which they frequently appear. Also offers guidance on how to research symbols not included in this dictionary.

PN 771 .E5 1999 Vols. 1-4 Reference
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. 3rd ed. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press.
Entries on authors containing biographical information, critical assessment, a listing of their works and a bibliography of works for further reading. Entries for national literatures provide information on different genres within these traditions as well as suggested further readings. Note that this work also contains references to non-English literatures.

PR 19 .C66 2003 Reference
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum.
Short entries on major figures, genres and concepts. Some entries contain bibliographies.

PR 25 .B75 2001 Reference
British and Irish Literature and Its Times: Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s). Ed. Joyce Moss. Detroit: Gale Group.
and
PR 25 .B76 2001 Reference
British and Irish Literature and Its Times: the Victoria Era to the Present (1837-). Ed. Joyce Moss. Detroit: Gale Group.
These reference works cover key literary works written during their time periods, placing them within their historical, social, psychological and economic contexts in order to draw comparisons between literary and historical realities. Entries are lengthy and bibliographies for further reading are provided.

PR 85 .B688 Vols. 1-8 + Supplements Reference
British Writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner.
Chronologically covers writers from the 14th century to the present day. Short essay-length entries provide a short biography of the subject, survey of subject's principle writings, assessment of work as a whole and bibliographies of suggested further reading.

PR 85 .E49 1991 Reference
Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Eds. Martin Coyle et al. Detroit: Gale Research.
Essay-length entries covering the structure of critical debate surrounding texts. Work is divided into major sections (each containing several essays) addressing issues such as various periods in English literature (e.g., medieval, renaissance, postmodernism), poetry (e.g. epic & romance, Victorian, lyric, contemporary American), drama (e.g. tragedy, comedy, theories of modern drama, feminist theatre), the novel (e.g., historical, feminine fictions, realism, formalism), critical traditions (e.g., biblical hermeneutics, neo-classical, Marxist, new historicism), various aspects relating to production and reception of literature, contexts (e.g., literature and the Bible, literature and music, aestheticism), and perspectives (e.g. African literature in English, African-American tradition, Indian literature in English). Each essay contains works cited and a list of suggestions for further reading.

PR 85 .R42 1996 Reference
Reader's Guide to Literature in English. Ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
Provides descriptions and evaluations of critical writings on a range of topics and writers in the literature of the British Isles, the United States, and other major English-speaking traditions. Covers national traditions and periods (e.g., Canadian Literature, Australian Literature), genres and idioms (e.g., Travel Literature, The Sonnet), literary theory (e.g., Deconstruction), cultural contexts (e.g., Film and Literature), writing by minorities (e.g. Native American Literature), artistic schools and movements (e.g. Beat Generation) and entries on individual writers.

PR 85 .C29 1993 Reference
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. New ed. Ed. Ian Ousby. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Approximately 4500 entries providing information on American, British, Canadian, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, African, Caribbean and Indian literature. Includes biographical information, concepts, genres and movements.

PR 106 .S28 1991 Reference
Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D.L. Kirkpatrick. Chicago: St. James Press.
Short entries on writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and from English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Each entry contains a complete list of writer's published works, a selected list of bibliographies and critical studies on the writers, and a short signed critical essay.

PR 115 .N54 2000 Reference
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Entries, varying substantially in length, contain biographical information, an overview of major works by, and themes of, the author, their critical reception, a bibliography of selected published works by the author, and a bibliography containing suggestions for further reading.

PR 116 .M63 2002 Reference
Modern British Women Writers: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Vicki K. Janik and Del Ivan Janik. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
More of an A-Y guide (the last entry is for E.H. Young), this work provides essay-length entries on British women writers working in the 20th century. All entries provide background biographical information, a survey of critical analysis of the writer, and a bibliography of works cited and consulted, which provide clues for further reading.

PR 451 .E55 2003 Reference
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. Eds. Christine L. Krueger and George Stade. New York: Facts on File.
The two volumes in this work provide short entries on major figures in 19th and 20th century British literature. Most entries contain bibliographies citing major critical works on the entry's subject.

PR 861 .B38 1997 Reference
Beene, Lynndianne. Guide to British Prose Fiction Explication: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York : G.K. Hall ; London: Prentice Hall International.
Lists resources that explicate British prose writing. The resources provided include sections of books and journal articles.

PR 9080 .A52 E6 1994 Reference
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. London; New York: Routledge.
1600 entries encompass genres, major subjects (e.g., writing of the Canadian north) and critical biographies of writers. An entry is also provided on each region covered to provide context. Suggested futher reading included for many entries.

PS 21 .R43 2000 Reference
Reference Guide to American Literature. 4th ed. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press.
Entries on individual authors include biographical data, a bibliography including all the entrant's separately published works and a list of critical studies, and a signed critical essay on the entrant's work. Second part of the work contains short essays on key works by different entrants.

PS 151 .B37 1997 Reference
One Hundred Years of American Women Writing, 1948-1948: An Annotated Bio-Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press; Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
Entries for American women writers working between 1848 and 1948. Particularly useful for the annotated bibliographies of key critical materials published on the authors' work.

PS 217 .W64 N56 1997 Reference
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Biographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Entries, varying substantially in length, contain biographical information, an overview of major works by, and themes of, the author, their critical reception, a bibliography of selected published works by the author, and a bibliography containing suggestions for further reading.

PS371 .F33 2006 Reference (3 volumes)
The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. Eds. Abby H. P. Werlock and James P. Werlock.
Original essays on 500 novels and biographical overviews of 450 authors who have won critical acclaim and major literary awards. iterary

Z 2011 .M69 Vols. 1 (1921)- Reference
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Cambridge.
An annual bibliography listing books and articles published on various aspects of English language and literature in a particular year. For literature, more recent volumes contain sections for particular time periods (e.g., nineteenth century), within which appear subsections dealing with various literary forms and works about particular authors. This bibliography is also searchable online.

Z 2011 .N45 Vols. 1-5 Reference
The New Cambridge Bibliogaphy of English Literature. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Vol. 1: 600-1660 (Ed. George Watson)
Vol. 2: 1660-1800 (Ed. George Watson)
Vol. 3: 1800-1900 (Ed. George Watson); also have 3rd ed. (Z 2011 .N45 1999 v.4; Ed. Joanne Shattock)
Vol. 4: 1900-1950 (Ed. I.R. Willison)
Vol. 5: Index
Although a bit dated (published between 1969 and 1975), this work is a good guide to literature published by and about authors within the field of English studies. The bibliography is restricted to the literature of the British Isles. For volume 3, see the 3rd ed. (1999) for more contemporary coverage. Access to the series is provided by excellent tables of contents for each volume and a detailed index (volume 5).

PN 41 .H6 1996 Reference
Harmon, William & C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Entries provided for a broad number of concepts, terms, movements and genres in English literature. Entries are cross-referenced and include citations to important works on the topic.

PN 45 .C74 1987 vols. 1-4 Reference
Critical Survey of Literary Theory. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press.
Covers major literary theorists, providing lists of their principal works of criticism, short essays providing overviews of their work, and bibliographies of works that address their theories.

PN 81 .C6 1995 Stacks
Critical Terms for Literary Study. 2nd ed. Eds. Frank Lentricchia & Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Twenty-eight essays providing an introduction to the work of literary theory covering common literary concepts.

PN 86 .E63 1999 vols. 1-2 Reference
Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism. Ed. Chris Murray. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Essay-length entries (374) providing information on major theorists' lives, their influence, and their major works. Major movements and concepts also have entires. Further reading lists accompany entries.

PN 172 .D813 1991 Reference
Dupriez, Bernard. Dictionary of Literary Devices. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Approximately 2000 entries providing definitions and descriptions for terminology frequently used in literary discourse. The entries are frequently enhanced by the use of numerous examples to further clarify the meaning of the term.

See Biography in e-Reference Tools.

See also the works listed above in General Resources, many of which contain biographical information.

Biography Index
Provides biographical information about prominent people in every field. Covers information indexed from 3,000 periodicals, current English-language books, including 2,000 works of individual and collective biographies annually -- letters, autobiographies, memoirs, journals, diaries, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, fiction, drama, pictorial work, poetry, juvenile literature and more.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography
A comprehensive, historical, biographical dictionary, it contains the 14 published volumes in English and French of the print version. Includes the accounts of the lives and times of the individuals who contributed to Canada's development including business people, artists, politicians, nurses, judges, doctors, soldiers, athletes and poets. The dictionary currently contains entries only for individuals who died before December 31, 1920.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. It is largely focused on British literature, although French and American writers are also included. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for dictionary of literary biography in the U of T catalogue. Also available online in the Literature Resource Centre.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated biographical dictionary of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies from the 4th century to the year 2000. This is an entirely new edition of what was known as the DNB. It is especially strong in its inclusion of those who shaped history in the British Isles and beyond; people in public life (politics and government, the law, the church, the army and the navy), but it also offers thorough coverage of scholarship, literature, art and architecture, music, science and medicine, education and philanthropy. It includes more women than appeared in the earlier edition. The database can be searched by personal name, occupation, contributor or within the full-text of entries and the references included. The earlier edition continues to be available on CD-ROM and accessible through the public workstations at Pratt Library.

General    (See also Useful Series)

Dictionary of Literary Biography
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. It is largely focused on British literature, although French and American writers are also included. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for dictionary of literary biography in the U of T catalogue. Also available online in the Literature Resource Centre.

PN 41 .E53 1998 Reference
Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul Shellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.

PR 861 .B38 1997 Reference
Guide to British Prose Fiction Explication: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York: G.K. Hall.

PN 883 .C76 2001 Reference
Contemporary Novelists. 7th ed. Eds. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Detroit: St. James Press.
Entries include a biography, a complete list of separately published books, and a signed essay. In many cases, a brief personal essay by the entrant commenting on his/her work is included. Critical works on the entrant are also listed.

PN3503 .F33 2008 (2 vols.) Reference
The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present. Michael D. Sollars ed.
“(C)ollection of writings on almost 600 novelists and novels that emerged during arguably the most deamatic and transformative period in world literature.”

Z 5916 .H28 1988 Reference
Themes and Settings in Fiction: A Bibliography of Bibliographies. Comps. Donald K. Hartman & Jerome Drost. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature 14. New York: Greenwood.

Gothic, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy

PN 3433.4 .E53 1993 Reference
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New ed. Eds. John Clute & Peter Nicholls. New York: St. Martins Press.

PN 3435 .E53 1997 Reference
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Eds. John Clute & John Grant. London: Orbit.

PR408 .G68 G675 2006
Gothic Literature: a Gale Critical Companion. Jessica Bomarito, project editor. Detroit : Thomson/Gale, 2006.

Z 5917 .S36 B87 2002 Reference
Burgess, Michael & Lisa R. Bartle. Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Z 2014 .H67 F7 1987 Reference
Frank, Frederick S. The First Gothics: Critical Guide to the English Gothic. New York: Garland.

Z 1231 .G66 F7 1990 Reference
Frank, Frederick S. Through the Pale Door: A Guide to and through the American Gothic. New York: Greenwood.

Z 5917 .G66 F7 1984 Reference
Guide to the Gothic: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Mystery & Detective Fiction

See Mystery & Detective Fiction Subject Bibliography

Short Story

PN 3373 .R36 1999 Reference
Reference Guide to Short Fiction. 2nd ed. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press.

Z 5917 .S5 C63 Reference
Short Story Index: Collections Indexed, 1900-1978. New York: H.W. Wilson.

Z 5917 .S5 F5 + Supplement Reference
Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck. Index to Short Stories. New York: Wilson.

See also Useful Series

Dictionary of Literary Biography
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. It is largely focused on British literature, although French and American writers are also included. To retrieve titles in the series in the U of T catalogue, click on the radio button "starting with" and arrow down to series for dictionary of literary biography. Also available online in the Literature Resource Center.

PE 1505 .M3 1970 Reference
Malof, Joseph. A Manual of English Meters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

PN 44.5 .D4 2002 Stacks
Deutsch, Babette. Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms. 4th ed. New York: Quill.

PN 1021 .E52 1993 Reference
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton UP.

PN1022 .C64 1994 Reference
The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. 10th ed., completely rev. indexing anthologies published through June 3, 1993. Ed. Edith P. Hazen. New York: Columbia University Press.
This resource is available online. It contains editions 8 through 11 of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works (1997), The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies (2d ed. 1994), The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations (1996), The Classic 100 Poems (2d ed. 1990), and some material from The Columbia Encyclopedia. Complete texts of over 20,500 poems;excerpts for another 13,000. Full-text poems added quarterly.

PN 1042 .M93 2003 Reference
Meyers, Jack Elliot. Dictionary of Poetic Terms. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press.

PN1042 .W514 1986 Reference
Williams, Miller. Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

PR 502 .C62 1994 Reference
The Columbia History of British Poetry. Ed. Carl Woodring. New York: Columbia UP.

Z 2014 .P7 K8 1980 Reference
Kuntz, Joseph M. & Nancy C. Martinez. Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present. Boston: G.K. Hall.

Z 2014 .P7 M34 1991 Vols. 1-4 Reference
Guide to British Poetry Explication. Boston: G.K. Hall.
Vol. 1: Old-English - Medieval (Nancy C. Martinez & Joseph G.R. Martinez)
Vol. 2: Renaissance (Nancy C. Martinez & Joseph G.R. Martinez)
Vol. 3: Restoration - Romantic (Nancy C. Martinez, Joseph G.R. Martinez & Erland Anderson)
Vol. 4: Victorian - Contemporary (Nancy C. Martinez, Joseph G.R. Martinez & Erland Anderson)

Z 2014 .S6 D66 Reference
The Sonnet in England and America: A Bibliography of Criticism. Comp. Herbert S. Donow. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Z 2131 .P7 G85 1989 Reference Vols. 1-2
Guide to American Poetry Explication Boston: G.K. Hall.
Vol. 1: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century (James Ruppert)
Vol. 2: Modern and Contemporary (John R. Leo).

Z 7156 .E6 C64 Vols. 1-2 Reference
Coleman, Arthur. Epic and Romance Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretations. New York: Watermill Publishers.
Vol. 1: A Checklist of Interpretations, 1940-1972, of English and American Epics and Metrical Romances.
Vol. 2: A Checklist of Interpretations, 1940-1973, of Classical and Continental Epics and Metrical Romances.

Authors Series
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for authors series in the U of T catalogue.

Bloom's Major Dramatists, Novelists, Poets
Series cover a selection of major dramatists, novelists, and poets, with each book in series devoted to a single author. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for blooms major dramatists (or novelists or poets) in the U of T catalogue.

Cambridge Companion to ...
An extensive series published by Cambridge University Press. Covers a wide range of topics in single volumes (e.g., Modernism, Shakespeare Studies, British Romanticism, Renaissance Humanism, etc. as well as named authors such as Jane Austen, James Joyce or Jonathan Swift). To retrieve titles in the series, browse on title for cambridge companion to.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
An extensive series that provides bio-bibliographical information for authors in numerous genre-specific and time-specific categories. It is largely focused on British literature, although French and American writers are also included. To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for dictionary of literary biography in the U of T catalogue. Also available online in the Literature Resource Centre.

MagillonLiterature Plus
Source for reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including Masterplots and Masterplots II titles; the Cyclopedia of World Authors; the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters; and 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.

New Critical Idiom
Published by Routledge, this series covers literary terminology with individual volumes devoted to a particular topic (e.g., Literature, Romanticism, Gothic, Humanism, Ideology, Intertextuality, Myth, Historicism, etc.). To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for new critical idiom in the U of T catalogue.

The Oxford History of English Literature
Individuals works in series cover specific genres (e.g., The Victorian Novel), specific time periodis (e.g., English literature, 1815-1832) or particular figures (e.g., Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century). To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for oxford history of english literature in the U of T catalogue.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
A online resource that allows quick look-ups of commonly used literary terms..

Reference Publication in Literature
Individual volumes in series cover a number of topics from individual writers (e.g., T.S. Eliot) to different genres and national literatures (e.g., Guide to French Poetry Explication). To retrieve titles in the series, browse on series for reference publication in literature in the U of T catalogue.

Book Review Digest Plus
[New York]: H.W. Wilson Co.
This is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of English-language fiction and non-fiction books. An abstract of each book is provided. Journal coverage includes approximately 100 leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. It covers 1983 to the present and the database is updated monthly. The printed volumes began in 1905.

The E.J. Pratt Library holds the print version (v. 79 (1983/84) - v. 93:n. 9 (12/1997)) of Book Review Digest. Locations are Z 1219 .B64 Reference (v. 93:n. 1 (03/1997) - v. 93:n. 9 (12/1997)) and Z1219 .B64 Storage (v. 79 (1983/84) - v. 93 (1997/98)).

MagillOnLiterature Plus
[Ipswich, MA]: EBSCO Industries.
Includes: Masterplots complete, Cyclopedia of world authors, Cyclopedia of literary characters, Magill's literary annual, Magill book reviews.

AI 3 .R48 Vols. 1 (1900-04) - 21 (1957/59); vols. 30 (1970/71) - 56 (1996) Reference
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. New York: H.W. Wilson.
Primarily used as an index for finding journal articles (quickly being usurped by electronic indexes - see Periodical Indexes below), this guide can be a good source for finding reviews of books, especially where the reviews were published in the early- to mid-20th century.

See also e-Reference Tools: Online Literature

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
This is a database of full-text books -- 150,000 English-language titles and editions -- published in the eighteenth century. Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Literature Online
Literature online is a fully searchable library of more than 260,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.

This section contains World Wide Web resources that are freely available.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Literary Resources on the Net

Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

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updated by Lisa Sherlock, April 2006