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Abrams, M. H. A Glossary Of Literary Terms, 6th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Collge Pub., 1993. Ref PN 41.A184 1993
Beckson, Karl and Granz, Arthur. A Reader's Guide to Literary Terms: A Dictionary. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1960. Ref PN 41 .B397
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Deutsch, Babette. Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1957. Ref PN 44.5 .D48p
Harris, Lauri L. Characters in 20th-Century Literature. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Ref PN 56.4 .H37 1990
Heard, J. Norman. Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships. vol. 2 Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987-1990. Ref E 76.2 .H43 1987 v.2
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Malkoff, Karl. Crowell's Handbook Of Contemporary American Poetry. New York, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973. Ref PS 323.5 .M3
Packard, William. Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Ref PN44.5 .P3 1994
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Benet, William Rose. The Reader's Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987. Ref PN 41 .B4 1987
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Magill, Frank Northen. Cyclopedia of Literary Characters. New York: Harper & Row, c1963. Ref PN44 .M3 1963.
The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1993. Ref PS 1330 .M37 1993
Preminger, Alex, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1974. Ref PN 1021 .E5 1974
Reference Library of Black America. New York: Gale Research, 1990. Ref E 185 .R44 1990
Rood, Karen Lane, ed. American Literary Almanac from 1608 to the Present: An Original Compendium of Facts and Anecdotes about Literary Life in the U.S.A. New York: Facts on File, 1988. Ref PS 92 .A38 1988
Walcutt, Charles Child and Whitesell, J. Edwin. The Explicator Cyclopedia, 3 vols. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966. Ref PR 401 .E9
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Bain, Robert, ed. Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1979. Ref PS 261 .S59
Beacham, Walton, ed. Research guide to Biography And Criticism: Literature, 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985. Ref PR 85 .R42 1985
Black Literary Criticism: Excerpts From Criticism of the Most Significant Works of Black Authors Over the Past 200 Years. 3 Vol. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. Ref PS 153 .N5 B556 1992
Bracken, James K. Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. Ref PS88 .B72 2001
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Greiner, Donald J., ed. American Poetry Since World War II, 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980. Ref PS 323.5 .A5
Helterman, Jeffrey and Layman, Richard, ed. American Novelists Since World War II. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980. Ref PS 379 .A554
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MacNicholas, John, ed. Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981. Ref PS 351 .T9
Myerson, Joel, ed. The American Renaissance in New England. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978. Ref PS 243 .A54
Myerson, Joel, ed. Antebellum Writers in New York and The South. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978. Ref PS 128 .A5
Rood, Karen Lane, ed. American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Detroit: Gale Research co., 1980. Ref PS 129 .A57
Saar, Doreen Alvarez. Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists: A Critical Reference Guide. New York: G.K. Hall, c 1996. Ref PR858 .W6 S22 1996
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LITERARY HISTORIES and CHRONOLOGIES
Ludwig, Richard M. and Nault, Clifford A. Annals of American Literature, 1602-1983. New Yrok: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. Ref PS 94 .L83 1986
Spiller, Robert E., et. al. Literary History Of The United States, 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1963. Ref PS 88 .L522
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SURVEYS
Magill, Frank. Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 8 vol. Salem Press, 1991. Ref PR 821 .C7 1991
Magill, Frank. Critical Survey of Poetry. 8 vol. Salem Press, 1992. Ref PR 502 .C85 1992
Magill, Frank. Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 8 vol. Salem Press, 1993. Ref PN 3321 .C7 1993
ANNUAL REVIEWS
American Literary Scholarship. Durham: Duke University Pres. 1963-1969, 1982-- Ref PS 3 .A47 1982
INDEXES
Essay and General Literature Index. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1934--. Index Shelf
Humanities Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1974--. Index Shelf and continued as Humanities Abstracts on the library databases page.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1969--. Ref PB 1 .M64
Literature Online is available on the library databases page.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
COMPREHENSIVE
Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955- Ref Z 1225 .B55
Clark, Harry Hayden. American Literature: Poe Through Garland. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. Ref PS 201 .C58
Davis, Richard Beale. American Literature Through Bryant, 1585-1830. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Ref PS 85 .D3
Leary, Lewis. Articles On American Literature 1900-1950. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1954. Ref PS 88 .A77
Leary, Lewis. Articles On American Literature 1950-1967. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1970. Ref PS 88 .A771
Leary, Lewis and Auchard, John. Articles on American Literature, 1968-1975. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1979. Ref PS 88 .A772
Magill, Frank N. Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism, 4 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1979. Ref PN 523 .M25
DRAMA
Adelman, Irving and Dworkin,Rita. Modern Drama: A Checklist of Critical Literature on 20th Century Plays. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1967. Ref Z 5781 .A35
Breed, Paul F. and Sniderman, Florence M. Dramatic Criticism Index: Bibliographies on Playwrights from Ibsen to the Avant-Grande. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1972. Ref PN 1864 .B84
FICTION
Gerstenberger, Donna and Hendrick, George. The American Novel, 2 vols. Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1961-1970. Ref Z 1231 .F4 .G4
Holman, C. Hugh. The American Novel Through Henry James, 2nd ed. Arlington heights, IL: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Ref PS 371 .H64 1979
Kirby, David K. American Fiction to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources. Gale Research Co., 1975. Ref Z 1241 .F4 .K57
Parker, Patricia L. Early American Fiction: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984. Ref PS 375 .P25 1984
Woodress, James. American Fiction, 1900-1950: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1974. Ref Z 1232 .F4 .W64
POETRY
Altieri, Charles F. Modern Poetry. Arlington Heights, IL: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Ref PS 323.5 .A45
Donow, Herbert S. The Sonnet in England and America: A Bibliography of Criticism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. Ref PR 502 .K8 1980
Kuntz, Joseph M. and Martinex,Nancy C. Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interprepation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980. Ref PR 502 .K8 1980
CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
Brumble, H. David. An Annotated Bibliography Of American Indian and Eskimo Autobiographies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Ref E 89 .B78 1981
Fenwick, M.J. Writers of the Caribbean and Central America: A Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1992. Ref PN 849 .C3 F46 1992
Jacobson, Angeline. Contemporary Native American Literature. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977. Ref PS 153 .I52 .J32
Rock, Roger O. The Native American in American Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Ref PS 173 .I6 R62
Rush, Theressa Gunnels. Black American Writers Past and Present. 2 vols. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Ref PS 153 .N5 .R87
Stensland, Anna Lee. Literature by and about the American Indian. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1979. Ref E 77.4 .S73 1979
Weist, Katherine M. An Annotated Bibliography of Nortern Plains Ethnohistory. Missoula, MT: Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, 1985. Ref E 78 .G73 .W44 1985