Reed College Library Research Guide

English 301
Junior Seminar


Reference Sources

Print Resources

Biographical/Historical

American Writers (Ref PS129 .A55 1974) Plus supplements.

British Writers (Ref PR85 .B688 1979) Plus supplements.

American National Biography (Ref E176 .A54 1999), also online.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Multiple volumes with different call numbers)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ref DA28 .O95 2004), also online.


Guides/Handbooks (Short Entries)

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Ref PR85 .C29 2006)

Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (Ref PR9080.A52 E53 1994)

Abrams, A Glossary of Literature (Ref PN41 .A184 2005)

Harmon, A Handbook to Literature (Ref PN41 .H355 2003)

Harner, Literary Research Guide (PR83 .H34 2002)

Oxford Chronology of English Literature 2 vols. (Ref PR87 .O94 2002)

Oxford Companion to American Literature (Ref PS21 .H3 1995) Also previous editions of 1965 and 1983, also online.

Oxford Companion to English Literature (Ref PR19 .D73 2000) Also previous editions of 1967, 1985, 1995. Sixth edition, 2006, available online.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English (Ref PR471 .O94 1996), 2005 edition online.


Encyclopedias/Guides (In-depth essays)

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Ref PN81 .J554 2005), also online.

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Ref PN1021 .N39 1993), also online.

Encyclopedia of the Novel, 2 vols. (Ref PN41 .E487 1998), also online.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (Ref PS21 .E537 2004), also online.


Bibliography

New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL) (Ref PR19 .B32 1969), 5 vols.

A Critical Bibliography of American Literature Studies (Ref PS225.Z99 C752 1998)

A Critical Bibliography of Twentieth-century Literature Studies (Ref PR471.Z99 C75 1998)

The Year's Work in English Studies (Ref PE58 .E6; 1919- ), annual, latest 10 years in Ref., also online.


History of English Words

The Oxford English Dictionary (Ref PE1625 .O87 1989), also online.


Online Resources

American Literary Scholarship: An Annual. (Ref PS3 .A47 1963 -) also online.

Cambridge Collections Online

Early English Books Online (EEBO): Digital images of the pages of books printed in English from 1475 to 1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)

Literature Online (LION) includes ABELL online (1920 -)

MLA online (1926 - )

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Romantic Circles Praxis Series

Voice of the Shuttle-English Literature


Style Manual

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Ref LB2369 .G53 2003)


Created by: Jack Levine, English Liaison & Laura Leibman, English Professor