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Research Help : Subject Guides : Literature
Reference Books
| Title | Call Number |
| A guide to ancient Greek drama | PA 3131 .S83 2005 |
| American women writers: A critical reference guide | PS 147 .A42 2000 Vols 1-4 REF |
| Benét's reader's encyclopedia | PN 41 .B4 1987 REF |
| Encyclopedia of literature and science | PN 55 .E53 2002 REF |
| Myths of the Greeks and Romans | BL 722 .G73 1986 |
| New dictionary of the history of ideas, Vols. 1-6 | CB 5 .D5 2005 |
| Reference guide to American literature | PS 129 .R44 2000 |
| Reference guide to English literature | PR 106 .R733 1991 REF |
| Reference guide to short fiction | PN 3373 .R36 1999 REF |
| Reference guide to world literature | PN 524 .R44 1995 REF |
| The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy | PA 3131 .C29 1997 |
| The ideologies of African American literature : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black nationalist revolt | PS 153 N5 .W35 2001 |
| Thinking critically : world issues for reading, writing, and research | PE 1127 H4 .S58 2004 |
To find more books search WebCat the online catalog of print resources in the collections of ACP and AMC. To find works of literature search by the author's name or the title of the work. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol ? e.g. liter? will find literature, literary.
E-Books
| Title | Description |
| Arts and Humanities Through the Eras | This searchable, full-text 5 volume set profiles milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from specific periods. An overview of each period and a chronology of major world events begin each volume. |
| Dictionary of Sensibility | A hypertext dictionary to help understand the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. Provides a list of terms, explanations of terms and links to occurrences of those words in texts. (University of Virginia). |
| Legends | Provides primary source material and up-to-date scholarship. It covers King Arthur, Robin Hood, Fairy Tales, Sagas and Sea Kings, Ballads and Broadsides, Shakespeare's Sonnets and many more. |
| netLibrary | A comprehensive collection of online books (eBooks)including such books as, A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English, Woman in American Literature, A Critical Companion to Beowulf, Talking Shakespeare: Shakespeare Into the Millennium and The Negro in American Fiction. |
| New Dictionary of the History of Ideas | Full text six volume set providing over 700 articles focused on the ideas that make up Western culture, including entries on feminism and antifeminism, and nongender topics like diversity and social capital. Each entry explores origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes. |
| Oxford Reference Online | A cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes such books as, The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, A Dictionary of World Mythology, The Oxford Companion to American Literature, The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. |
| Project Perseus | An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece. (Tufts University) |
| The Internet Classics Archive | a searchable archive of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. |
| Women Romantic Era Writers | Links to the works in full-text of about 40 women authors of the Romantic period. |
To find more books search WebCat the online catalog of print resources in the collections of ACP and AMC.
To find more books search WebCat the online catalog of print resources in the collections of ACP and AMC.
Research Databases
| Title | Description |
| Academic Search Elite | Full text of nearly 1,850 scholarly journals in a wide variety of academic subject areas. |
| Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press) | The database contains the full text of 186 plays by 35 playwrights from the 19th-21st centuries. Playwright biographies, details on productions, theatres and theatrical companies are also included. |
| Black Drama - 1850 to Present (Alexander Street Press) | A collection of Black drama from Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries, including selected playbills, production photographs, and ephemera. |
| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries--1500 to 1900 (Alexander Street Press) | This database currently includes the full text of 60,000 pages of letters and diaries of 430 women from Colonial times to 1900. When complete, the collection will include over 150,000 pages of full text spanning more than 300 years. Biographical information on the writers is also included. |
| CaDiLaC on-line * | Catalog of the Capital District Library Council's member library holdings. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | This database includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources in history and fine arts, including the full text of the multi-volume, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Arts and Humanities through the Eras, and the American Civil War Reference Library. |
| Literary Reference Center (EBSCOHost) | Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database that provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and more. |
| Oxford Reference Online | A cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes a wide range of dictionaries and the Oxford Companion series. |
| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press) | The database currently contains the full text of 60 volumes of romantic poetry from 47 poets, selected contemporary critical reviews and material written specifically for this database by leading scholars. Biographical essays are included for many of the poets. |
| The Twayne Authors Series | Full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, U.S., or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles |
WWW Resources
| General | Description |
| American Authors | Provides biographical and critical material on about 100 American authors. Also includes a timeline of U.S. political and literary history and a good deal of background information. Maintained by Donna M. Campbell at Gonzaga University. |
| American Writers | Explores the influence of 45 writers on U.S. culture. These include Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Black Elk, Will Rogers and William Buckley as well as other literary and historical figures. |
| Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism | Includes a broad selection of critical works on a huge scope of literature (not just English) and easily browsed by nationality/period and by author/work discussed |
| Literature | From BUBL LINK Catalogue of selected Internet resources |
| Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database | An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art created and maintained by New York University School of Medicine. |
| Modern American Poetry: A Multi-Media Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry | (Oxford University Press, 2000) It includes poetry, biographical material, illustrations, reviews, interviews and syllabi. |
| Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Main Page | Lists full-text sources, online journals, listserves |
| 16th - 19th Century | Description |
| 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) | Covers Renaissance English literature, with essays, articles, and biographies of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, Sidney and others. |
| British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 | An online scholarly archive of texts. |
| Eighteenth-Century Resources | Collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics |
| Folger Shakespeare Library | The Folger Library is the largest and most important collection in the world devoted to Shakespeare and his work (and home to more than seventy copies of the First Folio). |
| Index of 19th Century British Literature | An index to articles and other information available freely on the web concerning 19th century English, Scottish, and Irish authors. |
| Romantic Circles | A website devoted to the study of Romantic period literature and culture. Includes texts, scholarly resources, conference information and a variety of other material of interest to Romanticists. |
| The Literary Gothic | Provides links to works by and about Gothic writers, including primary texts, literary criticism and reviews. (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) |
| Women Writers Project, 1330-1830 | A collection of pre-Victorian women's writing in English |
| Wright American Fiction | Over 2800 novels and other works of fiction published between 1851 and 1875, with more to be added. |
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