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