Literary Criticism
Resources
Literary Biography
American Writers
British Writers
Dictionary of Literary Biography
European Writers
Ref PS 129. A55
Ref PR 85. B688
Ref PN 41.D5
Ref PN 501 .E9
Literary Criticism by Time Period
Classical and Medieval Criticism (CMC)
Contemporary Literature Criticism (CLC)
Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900
Literature and Its Times
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
(LC)
Modern American Literature
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
(NCLC)
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
in English
Twentieth Century American Literature
Twentieth Century Literature Criticism
(TWLC)
Ref PN 610 .C53
Ref PN 771 .C59
Ref PN 261. F543 1987
Ref PN 50. L574 1997
Ref PN 86. L53
Ref PS 221 .C8 1969
Ref PN 761 .N5
Ref PR 471 .O94 1996
Ref PS 221. T834
Ref PN 771 .G27
Literary Criticism by Genre
American Playwrights since 1945
Drama Criticism
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and
Historical Guide
McGill Critical Survey of Drama
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World
Drama
Poetry Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Ref PS 350. A53 1989
Ref PN 1601 .D59
Ref PN 41 .E48 1998
Ref PN 3453.4 .E53 1995
Ref PN 56 .F34 1999
Ref PR 623 .C75 1994
Ref PN 1625 .M3 1984
Ref PN 1010 .P6
Ref PN 3335 .S5
Specialized Literary Criticism
American Women Writers
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Chaucer A to Z
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
Guide to 20th Century Women Novelists
Modern Women Writers
Modern Women Writers
Oxford Companion to Women’s Writings in
Ref PS 147 .A42 2000
Ref PN 6081 .B27 1992
Ref PR 1903 .R67 1999
Ref PN 98 .W64 E53 1997
Ref PR 888 .W6 W44 199
Ref PN 471 .M62 1996
Ref PS 151 .M54 1990
Ref PS 147 .O94 1995
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Shakespeare for Students
Shakespearean Criticism
World Literature Criticism
Ref PR 2987 .S468 1997
Ref PR 2965 .S43
Ref PN 523 .W67 1992
Specialized Literary Criticism: African-American Literature
African American Writers
African-American Writers: A Dictionary
Black Literary Criticism
Oxford Companion to African American
Literature
Ref PS 153 .M56 N475 1996
Ref PS 153 .N5 A3444 2000
Ref PS 153 .N5 B556 1992
Ref PS 153 .N5 O96 1997
Specialized Literary Criticism: Hispanic, Latin American and Native American
American Ethnic Writers
Hispanic Literature Criticism
Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches
Latin American Writers
Native American Literature
Native American Literatures: An
Encyclopedia
Spanish American Authors of the Twentieth
Century
Voices of Multicultural America
World Literature and Its Times: Latin
American Literature
Ref PS 153.M56 A414 2000
Ref PQ 7081 .A1 H573 1994
Ref PQ 7081.3 .H58 1991
Ref PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989
Ref PS 508 .I5 N338 1994
Ref PS 153 .I52 W47 1999
Ref PQ 7081 .F57 1992
Ref PS 663 .M55 V64 1996
Ref PQ 7081 .M625 1999
Other Specialized Literary Sources
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and
Literary Theory
Asian American Writers
Larousse Dictionary of Literary
Characters
Miriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of
Literature
Shakespeare Criticism
Ref PN 41 .C83 1998
Ref PS 153. A84 A82 1999
Ref PR 19 .L37 1994
Ref PN 41 .M42 1995
Ref PR 2965.S43
Recommended Online Databases in Literature
Literature Resource
Center
Literary criticism and author biographies
Academic Search
Complete
Many literary journal articles--can be limited to peer-reviewed journals
(scholarly journals)
Omnifile Mega
Very comprehensive database, some literary and scholarly journals back
to 1983
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Biographies Plus
Illustrated
Biographies
ProQuest Learning:
Literature
Plot summaries, Knowledge Notes, Reference, Criticism
Gale Literary
Databases
Simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary
Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Literary
Criticism
Critical essays on contemporary literature
Dictionary of Literary
Biography
Biographies of authors with bibliographies of their works
Student Research
Center
Click on “English and Language Arts”
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