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GUIDES TO REFERENCE SOURCES Bracken, James K. Reference Works in British and American Literature. 2nd ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998. Lists short, detailed
descriptions of bibliographies, concordances, indexes, and journals by author. Gohdes, Clarence, and Marovitz, Sanford. Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the USA. 5th ed. Durham, NC, 1984. Standard guide for students of American literature; classed arrangement, brief annotations. Miller, R.H. Handbook of Literary Research. Metuchen, NJ, 1995. Basic reference sources on literature and criticism with some guidance regarding research strategies. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CATALOGS British Museum. Department of Printed Books. General Catalog of Printed Books. 263 vols. London, 1959-1966; plus various supplements. Because of the richness of the collections, this is an important source of information on all subjects and all languages except oriental. Basically an author catalog, with a limited number of subject entries for countries, persons, etc. Library of Congress. Main Catalog of the Library of Congress: Titles Cataloged Through December, 1980. A truly fundamental reference source. In microfiche. Provides information on the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress by authors, subjects, titles, series, and other added entries. Or search the online catalogs at http://catalog.loc.gov/. National Union Catalog; pre-1956 Imprints. Washington, 1968-1981. 754 vv. Set describes 10,000,000 works, and indicates locations in more than 700 libraries. Arrangement by main-entry (author), with cross-references often provided. A fundamental bibliographical tool. Continued by NUC, 1953 to date, and other related catalogs. Since 1983 in microfiche, with entries for names, titles, subjects, and series. ArchivesUSA. Provides access to holdings and contact information for more than 4,800 repositories and indexes to over 109,000 special collections. Includes information from the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States. RLG ArchiveGrid. The collection record file contains appproximately 500,000 bibliographic records for archival collections, and the collection guide file contains a growing number of searchable finding aids that provide a detailed inventory of the collection including the source, arrangement, and contents.
British Early English Books Online (EEBO): Contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave (1475-1640) and Wing (1641-1700), and will include an additional 22,000 records from the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) covering English history, politics, and religion. EEBO texts are available as fully searchable text and online images, including downloadable PDF files; the Full Text for Text Creation Partnership (TCP), of which UofC is a member, includes additional full-text titles. (Access is restricted to UofC users.) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): Based upon the microfilm collection The Eighteenth Century (microfmPN6011.E548, RR3), ECCO will, once completed, contain 150,000 titles and editions published in the British Isles between 1701 and 1800. Included are titles in foreign languages published in the UK as well as thousands of important works from the Americas. Texts are available in page images as well as in full text, permitting the keyword searching of over 33 million pages in all subject areas: literature, law, medicine, philosophy, religion, etc. (Access is restricted to UofC users.) English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC): Includes records from Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing in England through the end of the eighteenth century, i.e. 1473-1800, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Subject headings appear in records for items published in 1700 orearlier. The database is updated daily and contains more than 464,000 records. (Access is restricted to UofC users.) American Evans, Charles. American Bibliography; a Chronological Dictionary of All Books Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the U.S. ... from 1636 to 1800. Chicago, 1903-1959. 14 vols. Various supplements. Evans is now available full text online at Early American Imprints, Series I. The Library also holds microcard versions of the first 10,659 titles listed therein; ask at Microforms Department. Microcards for remainder are available from the Center for Research Libraries. New York. Public Library. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. Dictionary Catalog. 9 v. + 6 v. of supplements. Boston, 1961-74. Photographic reproduction of the cards for the dictionary catalog of the NYPL's archive for materials devoted to African American life and history; international in scope. (Balay) Sabin, Joseph. Biblioteca Americana. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York, 1868-1936. 29 vols. An important bibliography of Americana, including books, pamphlets, and periodicals printed in the Western Hemisphere, and works about the region printed elsewhere. The arrangement is by author, with some title entries for anonymous workd and many entries under names of places. Provides information on title, place, publisher, date, format, paging, often contents and bibliographical notes with references to description or review in other works and, in many case, names of libraries possessing copies. (Balay) Shaw, Ralph R. American Bibliography; Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819. New York, 1958-66. 22 vols. The Library holds microform versions of all 36,763 titles in the collection at Z1215.E275 1985 Mic. Shaw's bibliography is the continuation of Evans (see above). INDEXES Goode, Stephen. The American Humanities Index. Troy, N.Y., Whitston Pub. Co., 1975--. The American Humanities Index covers so-called "little magazines" or lesser-known publications. Invaluable for locating poetry and short stories published in magazines such as Poetry East, Hawai'i Review, the Southern Poetry Review, or the Connecticut Poetry Review. Humanities Index. [New York] H. W. Wilson Co., 1974-- . Together with Social Sciences Index supersedes the Social Sciences and Humanities Index, whose predecessor, the International Index, dates back to 1916. The Readers Guide-type index currently covers about 350 journals, many devoted entirely or in part to literature. Review of: Index to the Periodicals of [1890-1902]. [v. 1]- 13. London, 1891-1903. Primarily a subject index. Principally useful because it covers many English periodicals not indexed in Poole's. Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL). Vol. 4 (1923)- London : Modern Humanities Research Association, 1924- International, classified bibliogrphy for literatures in English. Includes books, portions of books, articles, dissertations, and book reviews. Balay Robert. Early Periodical Indexes: Bibliographies and Indexes of Literature Published in Periodicals Before 1900. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Lists close to 400 of the indexes, organized under broad subjects, with access by authors, titles, specific subjects, and dates. Annotations briefly describe the scope of each index and, when pertinent, the history. For general indexes, especially the ones whose scope seems too broad to be true (as with several online sources), Balay's discussions are lengthy and evaluative--a critical perspective that should make this book particularly useful on the reference shelf. Much of this literature is not accessible through any other indexes. (Choice, July 2001) Chielens, Edward E., ed. American Literary Magazines: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. "Signed essays profile and provide short bibliographies for 92 magazines. Each essay discusses publishing history, editorial personnel and policies, and influence. Appendixes list and briefly describe minor literary magazines or nonliterary magazines which published fiction or belles lettres, and a chronology of publishing and social or literary events." (Balay) Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. London: British Library, 1997. Though covering only a limited time span, this resources is helpful in finding reviews otherwise difficult to locate. Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities. Williamston, Michigan, 1960-1990 (Annual.) Includes reviews of literature and criticism. Especially useful since MLA Bibliography does not cover reviews. MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. 1921 to date. (Annual) This is the most thorough single listing of research on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore, covering articles in some 4,000 journals and in certain books. It does not list book reviews, or chapters in books. It is available in paper from 1921-1993 at Z7006.M67 Gen. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Part of InteLex Past Masters, this is the electronic version of the revised and enlarged edition by Stith Thompson. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1955. 6 vols. The index provides a classification of narrative elements in folk tales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. Includes a searchable word index and hypertext links. A classic/invaluable research tool for folk-literature in the broad sense. To access, scroll down on the "Select a title" menu. (Access is restricted to UofC users) Wells, Daniel A. The Literary Index to American Magazines, 1815-1865. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980. The two titles by Wells (second title is below) are complementary to Chielens work and Poole's Plus (listed above). ______. The Literary Index to American Magazines, 1850-1900, Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature. No. 22. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1996. LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHIES Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature. (BAL) New Haven, 1955-91. 9 vols. Major descriptive bibliography of the works of 281 American authors from the Federal period through 1930. Description is for separate publications (including books, broadsides, anthologies, pamphlets, and ephemera), with emphasis on first editions and "the first appearance of any prose or poetry." Arranged by author, then chronologically. Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Baughman, Judith S., eds. Bibliography of American Fiction, 1919-1988. New York: Facts on File, 1991. This two volume work gives bibliographies for 219 American fiction writers born before 1941 whose "earliest significant volume of fiction" was published after 1918. Publications included are current through 1988. In addition to established literary authors, the work includes a number of popular writers of science fiction, mystery, westerns, and children's literature. Provides brief entries on each author with a primary bibliography of first editions, standard editions and collections, letters, etc., as well as a secondary bibliography that includes biographies, concordances, interview, critical studies from books, articles, and theses. (Balay) Howard-Hill, T.H. Index to British Literary Bibliography. Oxford, 1969- 7 vols. to date. An ongoing project that represents the most complete bibliography of British literary bibliography. Smith, Geoffrey D. American Fiction, 1901-1925 : A Bibliography New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Aimed at collectors and scholars of US cultural history and the book arts, this incomparable bibliography lists the first printings of original fiction for adults by US authors published in the US, 1901-25. Includes novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, fictitious biographies, and travels, all in prose. Revised editions and retitled works are also included, but juvenilia, folklore, collections of anecdotes, essays, periodicals, and fiction in series are excluded. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author (anonymous works by title) and sequentially numbered. (Choice, May 1998) Specialized Bibliographies Alston, R. C. A Checklist of Women Writers, 1801-1900 : Fiction, Verse, Drama. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1990. Provides checklist of English-language fiction (14,730 titles), verse (2,079 titles), and drama (298 titles) published in the British Isles or dependent territories by some 2,000 women. With few exceptions, American writers are excluded. (Balay) Lindfors, Bernth. Black African Literature in English. 1977-1981 Supplement. New York: Africana Pub. Co., 1986. Bibliography of important works produced on black African literature in English. Includes genre and topical studies and reference sources, as well as a section on individual authors. Contains brief annotations and author, title, subject, and geographical indexes. Schwartz, Narda Lacey. Articles on Women Writers: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara, 1977-86. A bibliography of articles and dissertations on women writers writing in English from the Middle Ages to the present, published between 1960 and 1984. Vol. 1, 1960-75, vol. 2, 1976-84. Sargent, Lyman Tower. British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985 : An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. Provides brief descriptive annotations for works judged to be literary utopias, eutopias, dystopias, or utopian satires. Arrangement is chronological by year of publication. (Balay) Smith, Hilda L., Susan Cardinale, and Donald Goddard Wing. Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century : An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, No. 10. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. An annotated work bibliography of more than 600 works by and nearly 1,000 works about women, published 1641-1700. Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (listed above), but also cites works not found in Wing. Significant reference work that provides subject access to a substantial body of work. (Balay) Trudeau, Lawrence J. Asian American Literature : Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. Profiles 45 important Asian American authors of novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry, and provides excerpts from critical essays examining their works. Provides an introduction to contemporary Asian American literature. (Choice, June 1999) GENRE BIBLIOGRAPHIES Bell, Inglis Freeman, The English Novel, 1578-1956: A Checklist of Twentieth Century Criticisms. Denver, 1956. A highly selective bibliography of books and articles of 20th century explication of English novels from Lyly through the mid 20th century. Arranged alphabetically by novelist, then by title. Includes a list of books and periodicals cited. Continued by English Novel Explication: criticisms to 1972, compiled by Helen H. Palmer and Anne Jane Dyson (see below). Daims, Diva, Janet Grimes, and Doris Robinson. Toward a Feminist Tradition : An Annotated Bibliography of Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920. New York: Garland Pub. Co., 1982. Provides descriptive annotations for 3,407 titles that focus on the "efforts of women to control their lives or on social attitudes and conditions functioning as counterforces to that achievement." (Introduction) Fuderer, Laura Sue. The Female Bildungsroman in English : An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Selected Bibliographies in Language and Literature. 7. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. Short bibliography but fills a useful niche. Includes 133 entries of books, chapters, articles, and dissertations published primarily from 1972 to 1987. Provides brief annotations, an informative introduction, and a list of more than 275 bildungsromane cited in the criticism covered, and an index of authors, both as subjects and critics. (Choice, April 1991) Garside, Peter, Rainer Schöwerling, and James Raven. The English Novel 1770-1829 : A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Lists the first editions of all prose fiction published 1800-29 in the British Isles, Ireland, and North America (whether or not copies survive), and the first English translations of novels originally published elsewhere. The editors claim a more inclusive, productive research source than the online and CD-ROM versions of either English Short-Title Catalogue or Nineteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue, which have retrieval and genre identification restrictions. The present volume's entries supply publication history of each novel, format (microform/hard copy), holdings in libraries of the world, pricing details, reviews in Edinburgh Reviews and Quarterly Reviews, and "Notes." (Choice, February 2001) ______, et al. British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception. The database covers about 2,272 works of 900 authors, published between 1800 and 1829. Next to providing a bibliography of British fiction of the time, it contains additional features, such as bibliographic references to advertisements in newspapers, full text access to contemporary reviews and documents covering the publishing history of each title, as well as other highly valuable anecdotal information that make this database a key resource for the years covered. Glitsch, Catherine. American Novel Explication, 1969-1980. North Haven, Conn.: Archon Books, 2000. Covers criticism of American novels published in journals and books between the years 1969 and 1980. Are considered "American" novelists, those who were born in the United States or Canada or who have lived a significant portion of their lives in the United States or Canada. Also covers French Canadian writers. ______. American Novel Explication, 1991-1995. North Haven, Conn.: Archon Books, 1998. Harner, James L. English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660 : An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1984-1990. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992. International bibliography of "editions and studies (published between 1800 and 1976) of prose fiction in English -- both original works and translations -- written or printed in England from 1500 to 1660." Works included are novelle, romances, histories, anatomies, and jest books. (Balay) Le Tellier, Robert Ignatius. A Bibliography of the English Novel from the Restoration to the French Revolution : A Checklist of Sources and Critical Materials, with Particular Reference to the Period 1660 to 1740,
Salzburg English & American Studies V. 17. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994. Continuation and extension to 1740 of Harner's English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660 (above). Period covered includes the Restoration and covers highly influential writers, John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, and Daniel Defoe. ______. The English Novel, 1660-1700 : An Annotated Bibliography, Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, No. 53. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. Palmer, Helen H. English Novel Explication: Criticisms to 1972.
Hamden, Conn., 1973. Continued with 6 supplements, 1976-1996/7. A bibliography of criticism in books and periodicals dealing wholly or largely with individual novels. More comprehensive in its indexing and not restricted to English language publications than The English Novel, 1578-1956 (see above). Saar, Doreen Alvarez, and Mary Anne Schofield. Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists : A Critical Reference Guide. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. Lists 35 major Anglo-American women novelists and provides selective, annotated entries for critical studies published from 1900 on. Wright, Lyle H. American Fiction, 1774-1850: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography. 2nd rev. ed. San Marino, 1969.
Weixlmann, Joseph. American Short-Fiction Criticism and Scholarship, 1959-1977: A Checklist. Chicago, 1982. Covers more than 500 authors, 18th-20th centuries, and provides a checklist of English-language articles, portions of books, interviews, and bibliographies drawn from approx. 5,000 books and more than 325 serials. Entries cover general studies of short fiction and individual authors. (Balay) Alexander, Harriet Semmes. American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978. Athens, OH, 1984. Lists criticism, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s, of English-language poetry. Complements Guide to American Poetry Explanation (below). Identifies explications of poems of a thousand lines or less. Brown,Carleton and Robbins, Russel Hope. The Index of Middle English Verse. New York, Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press, 1943. A scholarly index to all poems published in England before 1500. Designed to complete Brown's Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse. ______. A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse. Oxford, Printed for the Bibliographical society at the University press, 1916-20. Part 1 consists of a lists manuscripts and part 2 contains indexes for first lines, subjects, and titles. Manuscripts are listed according to the libraries in which they were found. Includes religious and didactic verse written between 1200 and 1500. Davis, Gwenn, and Beverly A. Joyce. Poetry by Women to 1900 : A Bibliography of American and British Writers. Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, 1991. Contains 6,000 entries, arranged by author. Entries include author's name, husband's name, nationality, birth and death dates, legal names, and pseudonyms. Includes bibliography of general sources and of sources of poetry. Subject index. (Balay) Donow, Herbert S. The Sonnet in England and America: A Bibliography of Criticism. Westport, Conn, 1982. Includes 200 pages on Shakespeare's sonnets. Dubinski, Roman R. English Religious Poetry Printed 1477-1640 : A Chronological Bibliography with Indexes. 1st ed. ed. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: North Waterloo Academic Press, 1996. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750 : A Catalogue of Separately Printed Poems with Notes on Contemporary Collected Editions. London; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Attempts "to list all separately published verse written in English, as well as works written in other languages and printed in the British Isles, but it omits all works printed in America." (Introduction) A short-title catalog, it is arranged by author or by first word of anonyous title. Entries include title, imprint collation, first line, notes on authorship and subject, and up to five locations in the British Isles and five in America. (Balay) Guide to American Poetry Explication. Supersedes Joseph Kuntz' Poetry Explication, extending coverage to 1987. Unlike Kuntz, includes explications from books devoted to single authors, explications of poems of more than 500 lines, and adds many poets formerly excluded from the canon. It also includes Canadian poets and cites Canadian journals. Indispensable reference tool. (Balay)
Guide to British Poetry Explication. Boston, 1991-95. 4 volumes. vol. 1: Old English - Medieval; vol. 2: Renaissance; vol. 3: Restoration - Romantic; vol. 4: Victorian - Contemporary. Same concept and organization as the Guide to American Poetry Explication; standard checklist of criticisms of individual poems deemed most essential for students and scholars. A variety of critical perspectives (Marxist, psychological, linguistic, stylistic, deconstructionist, and feminist) are represented. The many anonymous poems of this period are listed by title; poets are listed alphabetically by last name; and under name headings, poems are listed alphabetically by title. Supercedes Kuntz's Poetry Explication (below). (Balay) Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic Poetry by Women : A Bibliography, 1770-1835. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. A primary bibliography that attempts to provide a record of all the volumes of verse published by women during the years 1770 to 1835. Includes works in languages other than English (excepting Welsh, Erse, Gaelic, and Asian languages) if written by women whose native language was English, and translations by women from other languages if the translations are in verse. Records more than 2.500 volumes of verse. (Balay) Kuntz, Joseph. Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Reilly, Catherine W. Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899 : An Annotated Biobibliography. London ; New York: Mansell, 1994. Lists 2,964 poets and volumes of their verse published 1880-99. Provides brief biographical information. Excludes books with poems by more than two poets; volumes consisting exclusively of verse drama, dialect poetry, or hymns or songs with music; most volumes of children's verse; and pamphlets. (Choice, June 1995) ______. Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879 : An Annotated Biobibliography. London ; New York: Mansell, 2000. The focus of this bibliography is on minor poets, intending to identify "the several thousand unknown poets and versifiers whose works are preserved in the national and other major libraries." Coverage is uneven, but a helpful, specialized resource. Reiman, Donald H. English Romantic Poetry, 1800-1835 : A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979. Selective, evaluatively annotated bibliogaphy with chapters for background studies, the Romantic movement generally, five major poets, and 12 secondary poets. Blake and Crabbe are excluded. Sections for individual authors include primary and secondary works. Primarily English language criticism, current through the mid-1970s. (Balay) Ringler, William A. Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1558. London ; New York: Mansell, 1988. Intended to supplement and carry forward to 1558 Carleton F. Brown and Rossel H. Robbins, Index of Middle English Verse. In two sections: verse printed 1476-1500, and verse printed 1501-1558. ______., and Carleton Fairchild Brown. A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse Printed through 1500. A Supplement to Brown and Robbins' Index of Middle English Verse. 1955. (See above) ______., Michael Rudick, and Susan J. Ringler. Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript, 1501-1558. London ; New York: Mansell, 1992. Schuler, Robert M. English Magical and Scientific Poems to 1700 : An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1979. Spender, Stephen, and Donald Hall. The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry. 2nd ed. (revised in new format). London: Hutchinson, 1970. Encyclopedia edited by British poet, critic and novelist Stephen Spender. Includes a bibliography of works and critical material, as well as biographical information on major poets and general articles on various aspects of poetry. Plays
Davis, Gwenn, and Beverly A. Joyce. Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, 1991. Based on major library catalogs (NUC pre-1956, British Library) and the OCLC database) as well as on basic drama dictionaries and bibliographies, this work is part of a series that aims to "reestablish the range and variety of printed books published by women from 1475-1900." Arranged alphabetically by author, the listing contains extensive cross-references to pseudonyms and variant spellings. Each entry names an author, with life dates, play title, and citation, including dates of publication or performance and publisher. (Choice, November 1992) Eddleman, Floyd E. American Drama Criticism: Interpretations, 1890-1977. Hamden, Conn, 1979-92. Criticism of plays as literature and of productions. Title index. Four supplements list criticism through 1993. Excludes interviews, biographical studies, and primary bibliographies. Includes some plays by Caribbean and Canadian dramatists whose works have been performed in the U.S. "Shakespeare: An Annotated World Bibliography," in Shakespeare Quarterly, 1950 to date. Now in issue 5 (a supplementary annual issue). References are annotated, with thorough coverage of foreign criticism. Indexes to topics, titles of plays, and characters. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF RESEARCH The Year's Work in English Studies. 1919 to date. (Annual). A collection of essays describing and commenting on recent books and articles, including fiction, drama, and poetry. There have been chapters on American literature since volume 35 (1954) and on the Commonwealth literatures since 63 (1982). BIOGRAPHIES African American Biographical Database. Chadwyck-Healey. Based on Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and available on the campus network (http://aabd.chadwyck.com/). American Biographical Archive, plus Series II. New York, 1989-1996. A microfiche compilation of biographical sketches on individuals in 494 biographical dictionaries published 1702- ca. 1980. Included are biographies of 280,000 Americans. Australasian Biographical Archive. New York, 1990-1996. A microfiche compilation of biographical sketches on some 100,000 individuals in 181 biographical dictionaries published 1866-1983. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research Co., c1980-. A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Bea, Joseph, ed. Biography Index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1946-. A cumulative and comprehensive index to biographical material published in books and magazines. International in scope, though only containing English language materials, the index is published quarterly with annual and biannual cumulations. Includes index by profession. British Biographical Archive, plus Series II. London, 1984-1994. A microfiche compilation of biographical sketches on individuals in over six hundred British biographical dictionaries published from 1601 to the mid-20th century. Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates. Black Biography, 1790-1950 : A Cumulative Index. Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. An alphabetical listing of all African Americans included in the microfilm set Black Biographical Dictionaries, edited by W.E.B. DuBois institute at Harvard and contained in the full text online database African American Biographical Database (access is restricted to UofC users). Includes indexes by place of birth, occupation, and religion, and an index of women. Dictionary of American Biography. New York, 1928-37. 21 volumes, plus supplements. -- Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. Lengthy, signed biographical articles, with bibliographies. Original set included biographies of 14,000 noted Americans Garraty, John A. and Carnes, Mark C., eds. American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Literary Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. Detroit, 1962 to date. Covers writers of books only, chiefly English-language authors. Not limited to literary figures. Sketches give personal facts, career, work in progress, bibliography of writings, and biographical sources. Related titles include the First Revision, the New Revision, and the Permanent Revision series which include revised and updated biographies. The Cumulative Index covers all series. Contemporary Dramatists. 6th ed. New York, 1999. Covers living English-language writers only, as do the next 2 works. Levernier, James, and Douglas R. Wilmes. American Writers before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.A significant reference work offering biographical/critical sketches of 786 writers by some 250 scholars. "Writers" is defined broadly to include many lesser known figures of interest to students of American culture, as well as some non-Americans "whose writings concern America and influenced, in some significant way, the development of an American literary heritage and cultural self-identity." (Preface) Mainiero, Lina. ed. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. New York, 1979-94. 5 volumes. Biobibliographical essays on a wide range of American women writers of all periods, including living authors. Peterson, Bernard L., Jr. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001. Contains entries for 760 African Americans in the world of theater between 1816 and 1960. 340 are included in the main directory; the remainder are noted in short form in two appendixes. Completes Peterson's series of reference works documenting the African American contributions to the American stage (located in Gen). Witalec, Janet, Jeffery Chapman, and Christopher Giroux. Native North American Literature : Biographical and Critical Information on Native Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present. New York: Gale Research, 1994. The volume, in two parts, "Oral Literature" and "Written Literature," features an alphabaetic listing of historical contemporary authors. Entries for each author include an introductory essay, often accompanied by a black-and-white portrait; a list of major works; and excerpts from critical essays from a wide range of books and periodicals. Each entry ends with a list of sources for further study and references to other Gale titles in which the author is described. There are indexes by tribe, literary genre, and title. (Choice, June 1995) INTERVIEWS Haralson, Eric L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 19th Century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pubs, 1998. Provides biographical information concerning more than 100 poets, gives critical evaluations of their works, and places them in their literary, historical, and cultural context. Each entry ends with a selected list of the poet's works and a bibliography of secondary publications. (Choice, December 1998) ______. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pubs, 2001. (See above.) Lambdin, Robert T., and Laura C. Lambdin. Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Scholarly and thorough, this encyclopedia is an excellent starting point to research topics pertaining to the Middle Ages. Furnishing background information about historical figures, genres, and myriad literary works, it covers the 1,000 years (c.500-1500 CE) commonly accepted as the medieval period. Two kinds of entries (brief and expanded) provide relatively comprehensive outlines of their topics, followed by informative essays. Each topic includes selected bibliographies, and the work ends with an extensive general bibliography. (Choice, February 2001) The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, 1993. The standard, authoritative encyclopedia on the subject with surveys of 106 national poetries, descriptions of forms, genres, and devices, movements and issues in criticism and theory, etc. Perkins, George B., Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. 1st ed. ed. New York, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991. In addition to the U.S., the volume includes entries for Canada and Latin America. Interspersed among entries for individual authors and works are longer essays dealing with literary history, literary criticism, genre, period, and ethnic studies, feminism, newspapers and magazines, motion pictures, science fiction and fantasy, humor, and the South. (Balay) Serafin, Steven. Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. 3rd ed. ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. Though the focus of this Encyclopedia is non-English speaking authors, this resource is useful for identifying and for providing a starting point for research on non U.S. or British authors writing in English. Includes some 130 nationalities. The majority of the more than 2,300 articles deal with individual authors. Also included are articles on most world literatures "with claim to a substantial productivity within the century," as well as major literary movements. Author entries provide vital statistics, a substantial critical assessment of the author's work, and a selective primary and secondary bibliography. (Choice, July 1999) ______., and Alfred Bendixen. Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Continuum, 1999. Compiled by two English professors who have edited other literary reference works, this encyclopedia of American literature, Colonial times to the present, consists of one- to six-page essays of two types: critical essays on authors, and 70 assorted topical essays on "genre, period, ethnicity and discipline"--e.g., "The Detective Story," "Film and Literature," "The Confidence Man." The biographical essays are primarily critical reviews of works but include brief biographical information as well. All essays are signed and contain cross-references and brief bibliographies. (Choice, February 2000) For a list of online English language dictionaries, consult Modern Literatures' Electronic Reference Sources page. Literary & Critical Terminology - View also Modern Literatures' Guide to Literary Criticism Cuddon, J. A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.4th ed. Oxford, 1998. Comprehensive dictionary covering all literatures and periods with basic definitions as currently used. Entries often indicate origin and cite examples. Groden, Michael and Martin Kreiswirth, eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. One of the standards in the field, this guide offers 226 cross-referenced articles for theorists from Plato to Cixous, national and ethnic critical traditions, periods, "schools," and literary forms. Includes bibliographical references (good starting point for further research) and indexes. Harris, Laurie Lanzen, and Helene Henderson. Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Index : A Guide to 500 Literary Movements, Groups, Schools, Tendencies, and Trends of the Twentieth Century, Covering Mor Than 3,000 Novelists, Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, Artists, and Other Seminal Thinkers from 80 Countries as Found in Standard Literary Reference Works, Literary Movements Reference Series. Detroit, Mich.: Omnigraphics, 1991. An index to 28 reference sources published 1959-1988. The first part indexes literary movements of the 20th century, including significant schools of literary criticism; the second part is an index of individuals. (Balay) Harris, Wendell V. Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. New York, 1992. In-depth discussions of 70 concepts relevant to literary theory and criticism. Hawthorn, Jeremy. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd ed. London, 1998. Aims to interpret specialized terms not found in other dictionaries, either general or literary. Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed., prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 20 vols. Though not in the field of literature, the OED is listed here because of its monumental importance. As its predecessor, this second edition provides the history and development of English words through the last 800 years.
Franklin, Benjamin, Gary Geer, and Judith Giblin Haig. Dictionary of American Literary Characters. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2002. A dictionary of "major characters in significant American novels -- in addition to those in some uncelebrated novels and in a sampling of bestsellers" published 1789-1979. The brief entries identify and describe a character and the novel in which the character appears. Some historical figures are included. (Balay) Greenfield, John R., John Rogers, and Arlyn Bruccoli. Dictionary of British Literary Characters:18th- and 19th-century novels. New York: Facts on File, 1993. A dictionary of 11,663 characters from 486 18th- and 19th century English novels. Besides established novelists, the editors have selected many lesser-known writers, including women, providing access to characters not found in more general works. ______. Dictionary of British Literary Characters. 20th-century novels. New York: Facts on File, 1994. (See above.) Hornblower, Simon, and Spawforth, Antony eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1996. Signed articles, covering biography, literature, mythology, philosophy, religion, science, geography, etc. Bibliographies appended to most articles are usually limited to the best works on the topic. A Dictionary of Shakespeare, Oxford, 1998. Provides information on aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages. Includes entries on plays and major characters, Shakespeare's life and contemporaries, actors, theatres and directors, plus comments on Shakespeare by later authors such as Jane Austen, Dr Johnson, and Bernard Levin. A Dictionary of Writers and Their Work, Oxford, 2001. Guide to authors and their works focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth-century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. HANDBOOKS & COMPANIONS General Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2006. Classic work, one of the most useful of this genre, offering clear explanations of terms, concepts, schools, and movements in literature. Ousby, Ian. Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1993. A handbook to literature produced in all English-speaking cultures with entries for authors, major individual works, genres, movements, groups, critical concepts, etc. General: English Literature Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6th ed. New York, 2000. A wide-ranging handbook of concise information on literary authors, works, critics, terminology, and important periodicals. Foreign authors important to English literature are also included. Fisher, Lois H. A Literary Gazetteer of England. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. Intends to provide a comprehensive survey of the literary associations of more than 500 English (and occasionally foreign) authors with more than 1,200 English localities. Arranged alphabetically by place-name, with entries for towns, villages, rivers, mountains, etc. Includes relevant information on the history, geography, and archaeology of the place; many quotations from literary works are included. (Balay) Kirkpatrick, D. L. Reference Guide to English Literature. 2nd ed. ed, St. James Reference Guides. Chicago ; London: St. James Press, 1991. The bulk of the present Reference Guide consists of entries on 770 living and deceased writers from Britain, the US, Ireland, Canada, and other parts of the English-speaking world. These include those canonical authors about whom similar information can be found easily, as well as some who appear rarely in other reference works. Each entry includes biographical notes, a list of published collections and individual works, a selected list of book-length secondary works, and a summary critical essay. (Choice, February 1992) General: American Literature Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge, 1994-2005. A multi-volume survey history of American literature written from a current viewpoint that includes interdisciplinary insights and the perspectives of gender, ethnic and popular-culture studies. Long sections written by subject specialists. v. 1. 1590-1820 -- v. 2. 1820-1865 -- v. 3. Prose writing, 1860-1920 -- v. 4. Nineteenth-century poetry, 1800-1910 -- v. 5. Poetry and criticism, 1900-1950 -- v. 6. Prose writing, 1910-1950 -- v. 7. 1940-1990 -- v. 8. Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995. Hart, James D. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 6th ed. New York, 1995. A standard reference work for the student of American literature. Brief articles on authors and individual works (not exclusively belles lettres), literary schools and movements, awards, organizations, periodicals, book collectors, printers, etc. Riggs, Thomas. Reference Guide to American Literature. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Specialized Handbooks & Companions Blain, Virginia, et al. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven, 1990. More than 2,700 brief biographical entries and ca. 60 topical entries. Despite the inevitable omissions and exclusions, this is the fullest biographical guide to date for women writing in English. Bordman, Gerald Martin. The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 3rd ed. New York, 2004. In addition to entries for actors, directors, playwrights, theater companies, etc., and a few selected topics (e.g., censorship), about half the space is allotted to individual plays or musicals of merit or popularity. Some foreign works are included, as are non-American figures whose careers had an impact on theatre in the U.S. Emphasis on Broadway and the New York stage. (Balay) Davidson, Cathy N. et al. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States . New York, 1995. The 771 signed, alphabetically arranged entries in this one-volume source include short biographies and extensive essays; coverage is thematic, chronological, geographic, multicultural, theoretical, and practical. Essays on women's bookstores, presses, lesbian publishing, race and racism, health, essentialism, feminist film theory, ecofeminism, friendship, gossip, eating disorders, etc. (Choice, May 1995) Hamilton, Ian, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Criteria for inclusion are: the poet must have lived (however briefly) in this century, must have written in English, must be at least 30 years old, and must have published one "substantial" work of poetry. Poets, movements, magazines, and hoaxes are in alphabetical order with numerous cross-references. PR601.O90 1994 Gen Hartnoll, Phyllis and Peter Found, eds. The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. As other namesake Oxford Companions to the theater, this guide contains entries for actors, directors, playwrights, theater companies, etc. The companion omits treatment of broad topics like ballet and opera, but covers musical comedy, vaudeville, and architecture (the latter concerned with theater buildings). Only discusses better-known critics as Brooks Atkinson, but includes new movements (e.g., Fringe and avant-garde). Unfortunately, keeping the work within limits requires omission of biographies of actors and actresses and of newcomers younger than 40. Although intended to provide worldwide coverage, the companion is biased toward British and American theater. (Choice, April 1993) Howatson, M.C., ed. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1989. A useful dictionary of concise information on writers, individual works, literary forms, names and subjects. Malinowski, Sharon, ed. Gay & Lesbian Literature. Detroit, 1994-1998. In-depth biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on international gay and lesbian authors writing since 1900, including living authors. Indexes by nationality, gender, genre, and general subject. Martínez, Julio A., and Francisco A. Lomelí. Chicano Literature : A Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. Signed articles cover individual authors as well as topics, providing lietrary and historical significance, critical evaluations, and bibliographies of primary and secondary works. (Balay) Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists : A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Focuses uniquely on novelists, profiling the lives and work of more than 60 writers representing nine Asian American groups, making this work the most extensive and inclusive to date. Of particular interest is the strong focus on South Asian writers, including Indian, Sri Lankan, and Pakistani Americans, groups that tend to be overlooked in some previous works. Entries are signed and well written, and include biographies, discussion of the writer's major works and themes, critical reception, and bibliographies listing both the author's works and secondary resources. (Choice, July 2000) Rice, Joanne A. Middle English Romance : An Annotated Bibliography, 1955-1985. New York: Garland Pub., 1987. In two sections, verse and prose, each listing criticism within broad categories and under individual romances by title. Indexed by author and editor. Updates the bibliographies in John Edwin Wells A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 (see below). (Balay) Sage, Lorna, Germaine Greer, and Elaine Showalter. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Brief entries, arranged alphabetically, cover authors, works, genres, subgenres, and general terms and provide reliable brief summaries of women's writing in English. (Choice, June 2000) Stephens, Meic, ed. The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998. Most extensive coverage is of authors who wrote in Welsh, but writers in English included as well. Stringer, Jenny, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English . With an introduction by John Sutherland. Oxford, New York, 1996. Short entries devoted mostly to biographies but including works, genres, critical terms, periodicals (a particular strength of the volume), and literary groups. Includes all areas of the Anglophone world, with roughly a third devoted to Britain, a third to the US, and a third to the rest. (Choice, April 1997) Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd ed. Toronto, 1997. Articles on authors and genres predominate. Includes extensive coverage of French-Canadian authors and literature. Welch, Robert, ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford, 1995. Similar to other "Oxford Companion" volumes in its treatment of Irish literature. Wells, John Edwin, Jonathan Burke Severs, Albert E. Hartung, and Modern Language Association of America. Middle English Group. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967. Indispensable for the study of Middle English Literature. Each section of each volume includes a commentary and a classified bibliography. Excluded are unpublished papers, research in progress, and unpublished dissertations. (Balay) DISSERTATIONS Theses Canada Portal: Central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. Note that Canadian dissertations published in English between 1998 and August 2002 are available in electronic format (pdf) from the National Library of Canada, through the NLC's online catalog. Australian Digital Thesis Project (ADT): ADT is a national collaborative distributed database of digitised PhD and Masters theses produced at Australian Universities.
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