British Literature
Pathfinder
Livonia HS Library
May 2007
Reference Materials
R 809 CON
Contemporary Literary Criticism
R 809 GLO
About the Author
R 809 MOS
Literature and Its Times
R 809 NIN
Nineteenth-century Literary Criticism
R 809 TWE
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
R 809.016 WEI
Literary Criticism Index
R 809.034 FUN
Funk & Wagnall’s Guide to Modern World Literature
R 809.3
Novels for Students
R 809.3 MAG
Magill’s Critical Survey of Long Fiction
R 809.3 MAG
Magill’s Critical Survey of Short Fiction
R 820 CAM
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
R 820 PRE
Prentice-Hall Guide to English Literature
R 820.016 T
Twentieth-Century British Literature
R 820.3 OXF
The Oxford Illustrated history of English Literature
R 820.3 OXF
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
R 820.9 GRE
Great Writers of the English Language
REF 920.03 BRI
British Writers
Other Books
Use the library catalog (click on HS Follett Search) to find books containing literary criticism
about your author. In the search box, type in the author’s name, preferred genre, or the title of a
work; then click on “subject”. Look for books under the sub-heading “criticism and
interpretation”.
Databases and Ebooks
Go to the LCS High School Library Webpage, at
http://sls.gvboces.org/resources/index.php?q=rpack/list/27
Click on the “Databases” button. In the “Login” box (upper left) enter the username and password from
the top of your pink handout.
Click on the orange box to enter each database:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (in Gale Ebooks) -- includes online version of Novels for
Students and Literary Newsmakers
Twayne Author Series Database (one of the Novel Gale Databases)
EBSCO MasterFile Select
ProQuest Discovery
WebSites
High School Literature Sites http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/hslit.html
Author Yellow Pages (searchable directory of author websites) http://www.authoryellowpages.com/
British Literature Index (San Antonio College) http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/britlit.htm
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com/
A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Try WebFeet (from the “Databases” button on the HS Library Webpage) or
The Internet Public Library to search for more websites that are accurate and reliable.