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Additional Resources for Literary Criticism

 Guidebooks

A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman (print) - REF PN41.H61 1986

A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature (print) - REF PR56.B34 2000

Book of Literary Terms: the Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism and Scholarship (print) - REF PR83.H3 1993

Literary Research Guide: A Guide to Reference Sources for the Study of Literature in English and Related Topics (print) - REF PR83.H3 1993

Research Guide to Biography & Criticism (print) - (2 vols.) REF PR85.R47 1985

Encyclopedias and Surveys

Cambridge History of American Literature (print) - (7 vols.) REF PS92.C34 1994

Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) (print) - REF PN771.C59 1973-

Critical Survey of Long Fiction:  English Language Series (print) - (8 vols.) REF PR821.C7 1983

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (print) - (4 vols.) REF PN771.E5 1999

Guide to American Literature and its Background Since 1890, 4th ed. (Mumford) (print) - REF PS88.J65 1972

Survey of Contemporary Literature: Updated Reprints of 2,300 Essay-Reviews from Masterplots Annuals, 1954-1976, and Survey of Contemporary Literature Supplement: with 3,300 Bibliographical Reference Sources (print) - REF PN44.M34 1977, v.1-12

The Critical Temper: a Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginning to the twentieth Century (print) - (5 vols.) REF PR83.C764, v.1-5 [1969]-1989

Biographical Information

Author Biographies Master Index (print) - REF INDEX PN451.A88

Dictionary of Literary Biography (print) - REF PN451.D54

Contemporary Authors. (1962-   ) (print) - REF PS129.C66

Who’s Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (print) - REF AS91.P8B74 1999

Specialized Bibliographies and Checklists of Criticism

American Novel

The American Novel: A Checklist of Twentieth-Century Criticism (print) - (2 vols.) REF PS371.G47

Articles on American Literature 1900-1950 (print) - REF PS88.L423 1954

Articles on American Literature 1950-1967 (print) - REF PS88.L424 1970

Articles on American Literature 1968-1975 (print) - REF PS88.L425 1979

Beacham's Popular Fiction in America (print) - (4 vols.)  REF PS374.P63B43 1986 

Critical Survey of Long Fiction: English Language Series (print) - (8 vols.) REF PR821.C7 1983

Modern American Literature (print) - (5 vols.) REF PS221.C8 1969

The Contemporary Novel: A Checklist of Critical Literature on the British and American Novel Since 1945 (print) - REF PN3503.A33 1972

English Novel

The Contemporary Novel: A Checklist of Critical Literature on the British and American Novel Since 1945 (print) - REF PN3503.A33 1972

English Fiction, 1660-1800: A Guide to Information Sources (print) - PR851.B39 1978

English Literature from Dryden to Burns (print) - PR404.M3

English Novel, 1578-1956: Checklist of Twentieth Century Criticisms (print) - REF PR821.B44 1974

English Novel Explication: Criticism to 1972 (print) - REF PR821.P36

English Novel Explication (print) - REF PR821.P36 Suppl. 1, (Supplement 1, continues the Palmer explication (previous listing) with material published from 1972 - 1974)

Modern British Literature (print) - (5 vols.) REF PR473.T4  

Drama

American Drama Criticism (and supplements) (print) - REF PS332.E33

Critical Survey of Drama (print) - (7 vols.) REF PR623.C75 1994

English Drama to 1600, excluding Shakespeare: a guide to information sources (print) - REF PR625.P46 1976

English Drama 1660-1800 : a guide to information sources (print) - REF PR701.L56 1976

Play Index (1949/52- ) (print) - REF PN1655.Z99.P53

Twentieth-Century American Dramatists (print) - (2 vols.) REF PS351.T9

The Short Story

Critical Survey of Short Fiction (print) - (7 vols.)  REF PN3321.C7

Masterplots II:  Short Story Series (print) - (6 vols.)  REF PN3326.M27 1986

Short Fiction Criticism:  A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of Stories and Novelettes American, British and Continental 1800 - 1958 (print) - Z5917.S5T5

Twentieth Century Short Story Explication (print) - REF PN3373.W34

Poetry

Contemporary Women Poets (print) - REF PS151C67 1998

Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series (print) - (8 vols.) REF PN1111.C7 1987

Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present (print) - REF PR502.K86 1980

Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature (print) - (Multi-volume set) REF PN1010.P499

Poetry Handbook: a Dictionary of Terms (print) - REF PN44.5.D4 1969