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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 |
| 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 the Library Catalog. 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 |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection | A digital collection of 2,200 full-text humanities titles. Browse by author, title, or subject. Searchable by keyword. |
| 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). |
| netLibrary | A comprehensive collection of online books (eBooks). |
| Oxford Reference Online | A cross-searchable collection of over 120 online reference books from Oxford University Press. It includes such books as, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, A Dictionary of Buddhism, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary |
| Project Perseus | An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece. (Tufts University) |
| The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature | Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works |
| 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 the Library Catalog.
To find more journals search Library Catalog.
Research Databases
| Title | Description |
| 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, and Arts and Humanities through the Eras. |
| 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 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. |
| 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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