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English 800-999: GUIDES TO RESEARCH

Resources for graduate students in English

GUIDES TO RESEARCH -- Finding Aids to Help You Identify and Evaluate Resources

Broad in Scope

 

LOVE Ref PR83 H34 2008

Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008.  Categorizes and evaluates a wide range of sources of value to English literary studies. 

 

LOVE Ref Z2011 .N4

New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

v. 1. 600-1660.--v. 2. 1660-1800.--v. 3. 1800-1900.--v. 4. 1900-1950.--v. 5 Index. 

Note that volume 3 has been superseded by Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature LOVE Ref  PR83 .C352 1999  v. 4. 1800-1900

 

LOVE Ref PS3 A47 

American Literary Scholarship  

1963-1985 in Love North Basement; 1986 to 2005 present in Reference; online 2000 to the present.

Annual publication of bibliographic essays by scholars in various specialities.  Authors identify the main arguments of works and place them within the context of current scholarship in the field. 

 

A recent volume includes chapters on Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism; Hawthorne; Melville; Whitman and Dickinson; Mark Twain; Henry James; Wharton and Cather; Pound and Eliot; Faulkner; Fitzgerald and Hemingway; Literature to 1800; Early 19th Century Literature; Late 19th Century Literature; Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s; Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s; Fiction: The 1960s to the Present; Poetry:  1900 to the 1940s; Drama; Themes, Topics, Criticism; Scholarship in Languages other than English:  French; German; Italian; Scandinavian; Central European.

 

LOVE Ref PE58 E6

Year’s Work in English Studies

1920-1994 volumes in the North Basement; 1995 to the present in Love Reference.

Evaluative bibliographic essays.  A recent volume includes chapters on English Language, Old English Literature, Middle English Literature: Excluding Chaucer, Middle English:  Chaucer, The Sixteenth Century:  Excluding Drama after 1550, Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama Excluding Shakespeare, The Earlier Seventeenth Century:  General Prose, Women’s Writing, Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660, The Later Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century, The Nineteenth Century:  The Romantic Period, The Nineteenth Century:  The Victorian Period, Modern Literature, American Literature to 1900, American Literature: The Twentieth Century, New Literatures, Bibliography and Textual Criticism.

 

Focused in Scope

Literary research and British modernism : strategies and sources / Alison M. Lewis  (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no. 7)
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.  LOVE Ref  PR478.M6 L45 2010    Library use only

Literary research and Canadian literature: strategies and sources  / Gabriella Natasha Reznowski. (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no. 10)  Lanham : Scarecrow Press, c2011. [electronic resource]

Literary research and Irish literature : strategies and sources / J. Greg Matthews.  (Literary research ; no. 5)
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2009.  LOVE Ref  PR8711 .M38 2009    Library use only

Literary research and postcolonial literatures in English : strategies and sources / H. Faye Christenberry ... [et al.]. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2012. p. cm. : ill. ; 23 x 16 cm. (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no.  11) LOVE Ref      PN73 .C47 2012    Library use only

Literary research and the American modernist era : strategies and sources / Robert N. Matuozzi and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay  (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no. 3)  Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 2008. LOVE Ref  PS228.M63 M38 2008    Library use only

Literary research and the American realism and naturalism period : strategies and sources / Linda L. Stein, Peter J. Lehu (Literary research ; no. 4)  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009. LOVE Ref  PS217.R4 S74 2009    Library use only

Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century : Strategies and Sources / Peggy Keeran, Jennifer Bowers (Literary Research ; no. 12) Lanham, Maryland : The Scarecrow Press Inc., 2013 LOVE Ref PN73 .K44 2013    Library use only

Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period : Strategies and Sources / Jennifer Bowers & Peggy Keeran
(Literary Research: Strategies and Sources #8) Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.  [electronic resource]
By Jennifer Bowers & Peggy Keeran

Literary research and the British romantic era : strategies and sources / Peggy Keeran, Jennifer Bowers  (Literary research ; no. 1) Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005 LOVE Ref  PR457 .K44 2005    Library use only          

Literary research and the era of American nationalism and romanticism : strategies and sources / Angela Courtney  (Literary research ; no. 2)  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008. LOVE Ref  PS217.R6 C68 2008    Library use only

Literary research and the literatures of Australia and New Zealand : strategies and sources / H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney  (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no. 6)  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.  [electronic resource]

Literary research and the Victorian and Edwardian ages, 1830-1910  : strategies and sources / Melissa S. Van Vuuren.  (Literary research: strategies and sources ; no. 9)   Lanham : Scarecrow Press, c2011.  [electronic resource]

 

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