3. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries for General and Literary Research
General and literary research in Widener Library's Loker Reading Room, Child Memorial Library, and on-line
The Loker Reading Room in Widener houses the core print reference collection for literary studies. There is also a significant number of reference titles in the stacks of Widener and in the Harvard Depository. Use HOLLIS catalog to search for them. Child Library the departmental library of the English Department, also offers a useful smaller set of reference sources and texts in a non-circulating collection. There are many subject encyclopedias and and language and subject dictionaries in Loker Reading Room. To find electronic resources beyond those listed below, use E-Research.
Use E-Research to identify useful reference sources. Select the Subject tab in Find E-Resources, and you will be able to browse through resources in all of the disciplines, or search for General Reference sources on-line.
Encyclopedia Britannica - The current, on-line version. See also the print 11th edition, below.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica : a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th ed. Cambridge, England., 1910-1922.
Widener RR 2003.2
Child Memorial
Ch M 15
Lamont REF.ROOM AE5 .E363x 1910
Houghton
Seminar Room
Theatre Collection HTC-LC AE5 .E36
Cabot Science REF AE5 .E36 1910
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection
Contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books. A broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series is available, as are other standard sources, such as the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, dictionaries of African, Asian, Celtic and other mythologies,etc.
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics/ Alex
Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan.
This is an excellent resource for literary studies, generally, and
is available as one of the full-text reference works via Literature
Online (LION) Select Criticism and Reference from the main menu, then
select Reference.
Child Memorial | ChM 1007.19
Lamont PN1021 .N39 1993
Lamont REF.ROOM PN1021 .N39 1993 (circulating copy)
Widener RR 3063.5.2
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
Includes definitions of terms relating to criticism and
theory in literature, film, linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy,
feminist studies, media studies, and related areas. Major concepts and
schools of thought are represented in longer essays.
Widener RR3005.31.30
Includes three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources.
The Old English machine-readable corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. This edition of the Corpus has been constructed from a version supplied by the Dictionary of Old English project in 1998.
