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Oxford Reference Online
Offers simultaneous searching of a number of reference books, including:

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary terms
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
• The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
• The Oxford Companion to American Theatre

American short-story writers since World War II
Central Library Reference PS 374 .S5 .A512

Contemporary women poets
Central Library Reference PS 21 .C7618

Encyclopedia of American literature
Central Library Reference PS 21 .E56

Encyclopedia of American poetry. The nineteenth century
Central Library Reference PS 316 .E56

Encyclopedia of frontier literature
Central Library Reference PS 169 .F7 .S673 1999

The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American literature
Central Library Reference PS 153 .N5 .G816 2005

The Oxford companion to African American literature
Central Library Reference PS 153 .N5 .O98

The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States
Central Library Reference PS 147 .O98

A Bibliography lists all the known books, book chapters and journal articles about a writer and his/her works.

Use a Subject Keyword in the Library Catalogue search to find bibliographies of major authors:

[name of author] bibliography  
eg F.Scott Fitzgerald bibliography

Browse the shelves at PS on Level 3, or browse online with the Library Catalogue (subject keywords).

• American fiction--20th century --history and criticism
• American fiction -- African American authors -- history and criticism
• romanticism + american literature
• modernism literature + united states

To find books about an author and his/her work, use the author's name as a Subject Keyword search in the Library Catalogue, eg

•  Toni Morrison
•  Kate Chopin
•  Don DeLillo

Use these databases to locate journal articles on your topic

Over 50 American Literature journals are available to read online...

Read the latest articles in these journals

A Search the New York Times 1851-2003 online for book and poetry reviews

• American Authors on the web
• Literature and culture of the American 1950s
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Walt Whitman online resources at the Library of Congress
• Writing Black

Please ask the English Literature Information Librarian if you would like help finding or using resources. Send Email

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