5. Literary Guides, Guides to Theory, and Bibliographies
This list represents only a few of the many literary reference tools you might find useful. The Literary Research Guide below will lead to others. In Widener Library's Loker Reading Room, the Literature section begins in the RR 3000 section. Guides and bibliographies for literary studies are found in this section. A few are listed below.
Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources
in English literary studies / James
L. Harner.4th ed.New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
An extremely useful guide, with critical annotations, discussing reference works and sources in all aspects of literary studies in English.
Child Memorial | Ch M 1001
Widener | RR 3101.10.5
Altick, Richard Daniel, 1915- The
art of literary research
/ Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermaker.
4th ed. New York : Norton, c1993. xii, 353 p. ; 22 cm.
Lamont | PR56 .A68 1993
Widener | WID-LC | PR56 .A68 1993
Harmon, William, 1938- A handbook to literature /
William Harmon. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2006.
Easily consulted and broad in scope, in dictionary form, with genres,
periods, names, groups, movements, types and a chronology included.
Widener | RR 3005.26
The Cambridge guide to literature in English. 3rd ed. /
edited by Dominic Head. Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
American, Canadian, Irish, Australian, Indian, Caribbean, African writers
and works are included, as are journals, terms, genres.
Widener | RR 3108.12
The
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature /
edited by George Watson. Cambridge [Eng.] : University
Press, 1969-1977. 5 v.
Widener | RR3102.3.5
Houghton | Reading Room | HRR 291.6
Widener | 10441.210.12
Child Memorial | ChM 1003.10.5
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | Z2011 .N45
Lamont | REF.ROOM | PR83.Z99 C33x
Quad Library | Reference | PR83.Z99 C33x
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature /
edited by Joanne Shattock. 3rd ed. Cambridge, [England]
New York : Cambridge University Press,
Houghton | Reading Room | PR83 .Z99 C33x 1999
Widener | RR 3102.3.10
Oxford Reference Online includes
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
A Dictionary of Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Guide to American literature and its backgrounds since 1890
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972.
Widener | RR3121.10.5
Child Memorial | Ch M 2519.9
The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United
States / editors in chief, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda
\Wagner-Martin ; editors, Elizabeth Ammons ... [et al.].
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Child Memorial | ChM 2510.10
Schlesinger | Ref. | 810.99287 D252o
Widener | RR 3131.50
Bibliography of American Literature
In print and in Literature Online
Widener| RR 3122.2.3
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
In print and in Literature Online
Widener | RR3005.31.30
Guides to Theory and Dictionaries of Theoretical Terms
Literary
theory and criticism : an Oxford guide /
edited by Patricia Waugh. New York : Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Includes concepts of critcism, aesthetic origins, 20th century practices, movements and schools. Detailed essays and index of names and topics.
Widener | WID-LC | PN86 .L555 2006
The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism
and theory / edited by Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University
Press, 2002.
Widener | RR 3005.31.15
New Princeton Guide to Poetry and Poetics
A very useful source for theory and for literary studies, generally.
It is in print and is included in Literature Online’s Reference
sources.
Widener | RR3603.5.2
The
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism / edited
by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1994.
Widener | RR3005.31.13
Lamont |REF.ROOM PN81.Z99 J64 1994x
Lamont | PN81.Z99 J64 1994x
Includes contributions from literary theorists, philosophers, political theorists, anthropologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. Articles on postmodernism, postcolonial cultural studies and individual authors and theorists; international in scope. Useful entries on types of theory and criticism, such French (and others) theory and criticism, feminist theory and criticism, etc.
Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory / J.A. Cuddon
Widener | RR 3005.31.9
A glossary of contemporary literary theory/ Jeremy Hawthorn.
Lamont | PN44.5 .H37 2000x
Widener | RR 3005.31.11
