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The following are some of the important print & electronic resources in the area of literature. They are particularly valuable for gaining a basic knowledge of a broad subject category, definition of terms and biographies of major figures.

African Literature | American Literature |  Authors |  English - Criticism | English - Phrases, Fables, Folklore | French Literature  |  General Sources | German Literature  | Italian Literature |  Literature - Essays | Literature - Genres |   Literature - Fiction |  Literature-Poetry | Spanish Literature

Author	Title	Call Number
GENERAL SOURCES, ENGLISH LITERATURE	Cambridge History of English and American Literature	Website
	Electronic Book Links	Website
	Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .B4 1996
	Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .M42 1995
Legat, Michael	The Illustrated Dictionary of Western Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .L34 1987
	The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English	Ref. Coll.: PR471 .O94 1996
	Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
	Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Drabble, Margaret	The Oxford Companion to English Literature	Ref. Coll.: PR19 .H3 1995
Drabble, Margaret	The Oxford Companion to English Literature  (2nd edition)	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
	The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English	Ref. Coll.: PR85 .C29 1993
	Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN 41 .C3 1973
	Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN771 .C575 1980
	Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century	Ref. Coll.: PN771 .E5 1999
Holman, C. Hugh	A Handbook to Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .H6 1992
Abrams, M.H.	Glossary of Literary Terms	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .A184 1993
	The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms	ONLINE: Oxford Reference Ref. Coll.: PN41 .C67 1990
Carey, Gary	A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .C28 1999
Denman-West, Margaret W.	Children's Literature	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Literature Of The Romantic Period	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Dictionary of Shakespeare	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Dobsen & Wells	Oxford Companion to Shakespeare	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
AMERICAN LITERATURE	Encyclopedia of American Literature	PS21 .E53 1999
	Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen	Encyclopedia of Southern Literature	PS261 .S515 1997
	Contemporary Southern Writers	Ref. Coll.:PS261 .C569 1999
	Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South : a Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook	Ref. Coll.: PS261 .C568 1994
	Modern American Women Writers	Ref. Coll.: : PS151 .M54 1991
Hart, James David	Oxford Companion to American Literature	Ref. Coll.: PS21 .H3 1983
Hart, James David	Oxford Companion to American Literature(1986)	Online: Oxford Reference
Herzberg, Max	The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .B4 1991
	Oxford Companion to African-American Literature	Ref. Coll.: PS153.N5 O96 1997
	Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Literature-Poetry	Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry in English Literature	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Drury, John	The Poetry Dictionary	Ref. Coll.:PN1021 .D78 1995
	The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics	Ref. Coll.:PN1021 .N39 1993
	Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics	Ref. Coll.: PN 1021 .E5
	Dictionary of Poetry Terms	Ref. Coll.: : PN 1021 .N3
Frankovich, Nicholas	The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in anthologies	Ref. Coll.: PN1022 .G7 1997
	The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry	Ref. Coll.:PN1022 .G7 1994
Kline, Victoria	Last Lines : an Index to the Last Lines of Poetry	Ref. Coll.:: PN1022 .K55 1991
Hoffman, Herbert H.	Hoffman's Index to Poetry : European and Latin American Poetry in Anthologies	Ref. Coll.:  PN1022 .H627 1985
	Encyclopedia of American Poetry. The Twentieth Century	Ref. Coll.:  PS323.5 .E53 2001
Spender, Stephen	The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry	Ref. Coll.: PR 19 .S6
	An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia	Ref. Coll.: PS1541.Z49 E47 1998
	Dictionary of Literary Biography	Ref. Coll.: PN441 .D5 vol.224
	Contemporary Poets	Ref. Coll.:  PR603 .C6 1991
	Notable Poets	ONLINE: NetLibrary
CRITICISM	The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism	Ref. Coll.:  Z6514.C97 J64 1994
	Contemporary Literary Criticism	Ref. Coll.: PN771 .C59 Online Edition
	Critical Survey of Short Fiction	Ref. Coll.: PN3321 .C7 1993
	Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Critcism	Ref. Coll.: PN86 .E63 1999
Weiner, Alan R.	Literary Criticism Index	Ref. Coll.: Z6511 .W44 1994
Harris, Wendell V.	Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .H36 1992
PHRASE, FABLES, FOLKLORE, PROVERBS	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable	Ref. Coll.: PN43 .O94 2000
	Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable	ONLINE/Project Bartleby Print: PN43 .B65 1999
	Encyclopedia Mythica / Mythology, Folklore, and Legend	Website
	Dictionary of American Proverbs	Ref. Coll.: PN6426 .D53 1992
	Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
Smith, William George	The Oxford dictionary of English Proverbs	Ref. Coll.:  PN 6421 .S6
Stevenson, Burton	Home Book of Proverbs	Ref. Coll.: PN 6405 .S8
Whiting, Bartlett	Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings	Ref. Coll.: PN6403 .W48 1989
Titelman, Gregory.	Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs & Sayings	Ref. Coll.: PN6405 .T57 1996
Essays	Essay and General Literature Index	Ref. Coll.: AI3 .E752
Fiction	Fiction Dictionary	Ref. Coll.: PN3355 .H46 1995
Seymour-Smith	Novels and Novelists : a Guide to the World of Fiction	Ref. Coll.: PN41 .N67 1980
	Notable American Novelists	ONLINE, NetLibrary
Davis, Paul D.	Charles Dickens A to Z : the Essential Reference to his Life and Work	Ref. Coll.: PR4580 .D38 1998
	Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens	Ref. Coll.: PR4580 .O94 1999
	Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy	Ref. Coll.: PR4752 .O9 2000
Fargnoli, A. Nicholas	James Joyce A to Z : the Essential Reference to the Life and Work	Ref. Coll.: PR6019.O9 Z533376 1995
LITERARY THEMES, CHARACTERS	Dictionary of British literary Characters : 18th- and 19th-Century Novels	Ref. Coll.: PR830.C47 D5 1993
Seigneuret, Jean-Charles	Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs	Ref. Coll.: PN43 .D48 1988
Harris, Laurie	Characters in 20th-Century Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN56.4 .H37 1990
Magill, Frank	Cyclopedia of Literary Characters	Ref. Coll.: PN 44 .M3 1963
	Dictionary of British Literary Characters. 20th-Century Novels	Ref. Coll.: PR888.C47 D53 1994
	Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters	Ref. Coll.: PR19 .L37 1994
Seymour-Smith, Martin	Dictionary of Fictional Characters	Ref. Coll.: PN56.4 .S49 1992
AUTHORS	Dictionary of Literary Biography	Ref. Coll.: PN441 .D5
	Contemporary Authors	Ref. Coll.:Z1224 .C63
	Dictionary of Writers and Their Works	ONLINE: Oxford Reference
	European Authors, 1000-1900; a Biographical Dictionary of European Literature	Ref. Coll.: PN 451 .K8
Roses, Lorraine Elena	Harlem Renaissance and Beyond : Literary biographies of 100 Black Women writers, 1900-1945	Ref. Coll.: PS153.N5 R65 1990
	African American Authors, 1745-1945 : Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook	Ref. Coll.: PS153.N5 A32 2000
	African American Writers	Ref. Coll.: PS153.N5 A344 1991
	Black American Women Fiction Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Women Poets And Dramatists	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Poets And Dramatists Of The Harlem Renaissance	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Major Modern Black American Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Prose Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Contemporary Black American Poets And Dramatists	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Prose Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Women Fiction Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Black American Poets And Dramatists	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Modern Black American Poets And Dramatists	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Major Black American Writers Through The Harlem Renaissance	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Modern Black American Fiction Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
McElmeel, Sharron L.	100 Most Popular Children's Authors	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Modern Mystery Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Classic Crime And Suspense Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Classic Mystery Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Classic Science Fiction Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Science Fiction Writers Of The Golden Age	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Modern Horror Writers	ONLINE, NetLibrary
AFRICAN	African Writers	Ref. Coll.: PL8010 .A453 1997
	The Companion to African Literatures	Ref. Coll.: PR9340 .C65 2000
LATIN AMERICAN	Encyclopedia Of Latin American Literature	ONLINE, NetLibrary
	Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature	Ref. Coll.: PQ7081.A1 E56 2000
Foster, David William	Mexican Literature	ONLINE, NetLibrary
GERMAN	Encyclopedia of German Literature	Ref. Coll.: PT91 .E53 2000
Garland, Henry B.	The Oxford companion to German literature	Ref. Coll.:PT41 .G3 1997
Kluge, Manfred	Hauptwerke der deutschen Literatur : Darstellungen und Interpretationen	Ref. Coll.:PT41 .K6
RUSSIAN	The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature	Ref. Coll.: PG2940 .M6
Terras, Victor	Handbook of Russian Literature	Ref. Coll.: PG2940 .H29 1985
Harkins, William Edward.	Dictionary of Russian Literature	Ref. Coll.: PG 2940 .H3 1971
Kasack, Wolfgang	Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917	Ref. Coll.: PG2991.4 .K3513 1988
SPANISH	Diccionario de literatura española.	Ref. Coll.: PQ 6006 .D5 1964
Newmark, Maxim	Dictionary of Spanish Literature	Ref. Coll.: PQ 6006 .N4
Redfern, James	A Glossary of Spanish Literary Composition	Ref. Coll.: PC 4680 .R4
	The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature	Ref. Coll.: PQ6006 .O93
FRENCH	The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French	Ref. Coll.: PQ41 .N48 1995
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de	Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française	Ref. Coll.: PQ41 .B4 1994
Dolbow, Sandra W.	Dictionary of Modern French Literature : From the Age of Reason Through Realism	Ref. Coll.:  PQ41 .D65 1986
Birkett, Jennifer	A Guide to French Literature : from Early Modern to Postmodern	Ref. Coll.:  PQ305 .B524 1997
ITALIAN
Bondanella, Peter	Dictionary of Italian Literature	Ref. Coll.: PQ4006 .D45 1979

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