English Literature and
Literary Analysis
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
See also these related research guides: American Literature and Literary
Analysis, Epic and Classical Literature, Humanities, Mythology/Folklore/Legend,
Poetry, and Shakespeare Research.
Bibliographies
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Humor in Eighteenth & Nineteenth
Century British Literature: A Reference Guide.
R 016.827
N712h, 1998
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Literary Research Guide: An
Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies.
R 016.8209 H2294l, 2002
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Oxford Chronology of English
Literature. R 820.202 O24c 2 vols.
Biographies
For
biographical sketches of the life and works of authors, as well as lists of
works by subject, author, or title, consult the sources that follow.
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British Writers.
Selected Authors. R 823.009 B7779wr 3
vols.
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Contemporary Dramatists. R 822 C761, 1999
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Contemporary
Women Poets. R 811 C7676w0, 1998
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An
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. R
820.9928 E5636b, 1999
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The
Undergraduate’s Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites.
R
025.068 F1315u
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Who
Was Who in Literature, 1906—1934. R 928.2 W628, 1979, 2 vols.
Criticism
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British Writers
Classics. R 823.009 B7779w
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The Cambridge Companion to English literature, 1500-1600. R 820.9 C1442e, 2000
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The Cambridge History of English Literature. R 820.9 C178 15 vols.
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A Companion to Romanticism. R 820.9145
C7381r, 1999
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Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors through the
Beginning of the Twentieth Century. R 820.9
M927 4 vols.
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Nineteenth Century Literature
Criticism. R 809.034 N714 Multiple vols.
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Short Story Criticism. R 809.31
S559 Multiple vols.
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The Transitional Age: British Literature,
1880-1920. R 016.82 L389t, 1973
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Twentieth Century Literature
Criticism. R 809.04 T971t Multiple vols.
Dictionaries
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A Dictionary of Biblical Allusions in English
Literature. R 820.93 F963
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A
Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. R 820.9 J46d, 1992
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Dictionary
of Irish Literature. R 820.99415 H714d, 1979
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A
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. R 803 C893d, 1998
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Larousse Dictionary of Literary
Characters. R 809.927 L332g, 1994
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A Milton Dictionary. R
821.47 M662H
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A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms. R 803
C273m, 1999
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Victorian
Culture and Society. R 941.071 R5411v
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Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. R 809.9109 T97151, 2000
Encyclopedias and Handbooks
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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature. R
809.911 S52e
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Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism.
R809.911 E1951
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Encyclopedia of the Novel. R
809.3003 E197n, 1998 vols. 1-2
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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era
1760 – 1850. R 700.414 E197r vols. 1-2
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Encyclopedia
of World Literature in the 20th Century. R 803 E198w, 1999 4 vols.
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English
Literature: An Illustrated Record. R
820.9 G253e 4 vols.
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The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential
Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time.
R 809 B97311, 2001
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. R 803 M568, 1995
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Oxford Companion to
English Literature. R 820.3 H342o, 2000
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Standards for the
English Language Arts. R 808.042 N2133s, 1996
Guides to Specific Authors
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Agatha Christie A to Z: the Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings.
R 823.912 S896a
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The Alexander
Pope Encyclopedia. R 821.5 R6329a
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All Things
Austen: An Encyclopedia of Austen’s World. R 823.7 O82a, 2005 2 vols.
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Benet’s Reader’s
Encyclopedia. R 803 B463re, 1996
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Charles Dickens A
to Z. R 823.8 D548d, 1998
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Chaucer A to Z. R 821.1 R834c, 1999
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The C. S.
Lewis Encyclopedia. R 823.912 D9349c
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The Grove
Companion to Samuel Beckett. R 848.914 A572g, 2004
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An
Ibsen Companion. R 839.8226 B915i, 1984
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James Joyce A to Z. R 823.912 F223, 1996
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A
Milton Encyclopedia. R 821.47 M642e vols. 1-9
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A Mirror of Chaucer’s
World. R 821.17 L863
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The Oxford Companion to the
Brontёs. R 823.809 A264o
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Oxford Reader’s Companion to
Dickens. R 823.8 D548ox, 2000
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The Riverside Chaucer.
R 821.17 C3931r
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Virginia
Woolf A-Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings. R 823.912 H965v,
1996
Research Guides
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Literary Research Guide: An
Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies.
R 016.8209 H2294l, 2002
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A Research
Guide for Undergraduates: English and American Literature. R 820.72 B175r
Reference Resources Online
Provides
full-text access to many reference resources online, including:
- Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature;
- Beacham's six-volume Research Guide to
Biography and Criticism;
- Continuum’s encyclopedia’s of American, British,
and children’s literature;
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics
and The Columbia Companion to the 20th
- Century American Short Story;
- The Oxford Illustrated History of English
Literature; The Literary
Encyclopedia;
- Masterplots and Masterplots
II;Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia
of Literary Characters, and
- Magill's
Literary Annual;
- The Harold Bloom series of over 500 books; and
additional resources of information on notable
authors
- of long and short fiction, poetry,
drama, and philosophy.
Masterplots
Complete 2000
Full-text. On-campus access only; when prompted, click
Open to access the file. Provides synopses of plays, character profiles, and
brief author biographies including lists of major works.
To access from the Library homepage: Click
on Articles in Databases, then English
Language and Literature.
Full-text. . Brings together 100 dictionaries and other reference books
in various subjects into one searchable database. Includes under “Literature”
the following: The Concise
To access from the
Library homepage: Click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
- For additional possibilities, click on Quick Reference from the ODU
Library homepage, then under the heading of Resources by Topic, then choose either Dictionaries or Encyclopedias.
Full-text Primary Literature Online
To access from the Library homepage: Click
on Articles in Databases, then choose English Language and Literature.
Eighteenth
Century Fiction
Full-text. Includes 96 works of prose
fiction written in the
English
Poetry
Full-text. Assembles over 160,000 poems
by 1,350 poets written in English from 600 to 1900.
English
Prose Drama
Full-text. Includes over 1,800 plays
written in prose from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.
English
Verse Drama
Full-text. Contains more than 2,200
works of poetry intended for the stage from 1400 to 1900.
William
Butler Yeats Collection
Full-Text. A complete electronic edition of Yeats's work, that
brings together 22 printed volumes and including critical and fictional prose,
poetry, plays, and autobiographical works.
Full-Text. Over 44,000 poems by 288 poets, incorporating the
Modern Poetry Collection and The Faber Poetry Library, as well as the complete
text of each poem is included, and any integral images are also scanned.
Introductions and prefaces to the volumes are included, as are all notes and
any prose sections.
- For additional possibilities, click on Quick Reference from the ODU
Library homepage, then under the heading of Resources by Topic, then choose either Dictionaries or Encyclopedias.
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction Search by keyword, title, or
author.
To access from the Library homepage: Click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
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Recommended Databases
See also these
related research guides: American Literature and Literary Analysis, Epic and Classical
Literature, Humanities, Mythology/Folklore/Legend, Poetry, and Shakespeare
Research.
Contains peer-reviewed journal
coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications.
Articles and book reviews covering many academic areas of study, including arts and literature. Updated daily.
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Citations
only. Indexes books, articles, reviews,
essays, and critical editions of literary works in English studies. British, American, and Commonwealth writing
are all represented.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
Collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry
contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and
sources for further study.
Presents over 4300 research
journals, covering numerous subject areas.
Literary
Reference Center
Specifically designed for public
libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate
research. Offers information on authors
and their works from reference works, books, and literary journals. Includes plot summaries, synopses and
work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text
of literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and
contemporary short stories, classic novels; and
author interviews.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations
only. Catalogs books and articles on
modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Information about the libraries that own the
library resources is also included.
Updated 10 times per year.
Finding Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some of the relevant
periodicals available in the ODU Library.