literature

Website	Description	Access
Literature Resource Center - LRC	Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.	Campus & Remote
Nantahala	A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia - website funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Appalachian College Association	Unrestricted
Bedford/St. Martin’s LitLInks	Links to literary websites	Unrestricted
Modern American Poetry	Provides a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time	Unrestricted
The American Academy of Poets	The largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry	Unrestricted
Literature: The Human Experience	Bedford/St. Martin's companion site to the textbook	Unrestricted
American Authors	Information on American literary movements, authors, historical events. and links to other American literature sites	Unrestricted
American Literature Overviews	Government website with links to information about American literature	Unrestricted
Online Literary Criticism Collection	Collection of critical and biographical websites about authors and their works	Unrestricted
Literary Resources on the Net	Links to major Internet resources in literature with information on authors, movements, and collections of electronic literary texts	Unrestricted
Kingwood College Library American Cultural History	Cultural, historic, and literary information about each decade of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.	Unrestricted
Project Gutenberg	Gives electronic access to nearly 10,000 books which are in the public domain	Unrestricted
The Literary Gothic	Links to sites devoted to authors, criticism of Gothic fiction, some primary texts	Unrestricted
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples	Short but useful glossary for help in understanding some literary terms	Unrestricted
Humanities: Documenting Sources	A guide for citing sources of information using the MLA (Modern Language Association) system.	Unrestricted

Title	Description	Call number
Books
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature	Designed to give the undergraduate a road map of the reference library in literary research	PR 56 .B34 1985
Literary History of the United States	Coverage of literary movement and individual writers from colonial times to the early 1960s	PS 88 .L522
Columbia Literary History of the United States	An authoritative, survey of the literature of the United States	PS 92 .C64 1988
Fifteen American Authors before 1900: Bibliographic Essays on research and Criticism	Among the writers covered are Stephen Crane and Emily Dickinson	PS 210 .R38
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature	An important source on the literature from AD 600 to 1950	Z 2011 .N45
Reference Books
Current Biography Yearbook	Biographical information on people currently in the news; includes popular authors	Ref CT 120 .C8
A Handbook to Literature	Provides brief explanations of literary terms, genres, and periods	Ref PN 41.H6 1986
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics	Includes entries on technical terms and poetic movements	Ref PN 1021 .N39 1993
Oxford Companion to English Literature	Short critical and biographical entries includes authors born through 1939	Ref PR 19 .D73 1985
Literary Research Guide: A Guide to Reference Sources for the Study of Literature in English and Related Topics	Annotated guide that describes and evaluates important indexes, databases, catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.	Ref PR 83 .H34 1993
Cambridge Guide to English Literature	Literature of the English speaking world to 1970, covers more than 1000 years.	Ref PR 85 .C28 1983
Reader's Guide to Literature in English	Comprehensive and authoritative guide to English language literature	Ref PR 85 .R33 1996
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English	Includes only women writers for all historical periods	Ref PR 111 .B57
Twentieth Century British Literature	General criticism of works of British authors	Ref PR 473 .T84 1985
Critical Survey of Poetry	Consists of eight volumes of articles on poets who have come to be regarded as important figures	Ref PR 502 .85 1992
Oxford Companion to American Literature	Short critical and biographical entries, information on schools and movements, and more	Ref PS 21. H3 1995
Cambridge History of English Literature	4 volume set covers more than 100 years of literature of the English-speaking world to 1970	Ref PS 88 .C3
American Women Writers	Covers colonial times to 1979	Ref PS 147 .A4
African American Writers	Biographical and critical information	Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1991
Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance	Biographical and critical information	Ref PS 153 .N5 A393 1986
Twentieth Century American Literature	General criticism of authors' work, sometimes criticism of specific works	Ref PS 221 .T834 1985
American Poets Since World War II	Biographical and critical information	Ref PS 323.5 .A5 1992
Contemporary Authors	Biographical information on 20^th and 21^st century authors	Ref Z 1224 .C6
Research Guide to Biography & Criticism	Covers British, American, and Canadian authors from earliest times to about 1985	Ref 2011 .R47 1985
Indexes
Essays and General Literature Index	Indexes essays and chapters in books for literature and locates short critical essays	Ref AI 3 .E752
Humanities Index	Indexes articles about literature, individual authors and their works	Ref AI 3 .H85
New York Times Index	Locates book reviews and articles about authors in the New York Times	Ref AI 21 .N45
Book Review Index	Locates book reviews in periodicals	Ref Z 1035 .AI B6
Book Review Digest	Locates book reviews in periodicals, includes summaries of the reviews	Ref Z 1219 .C95
Short Story Index	Locates short stories in books and periodicals	Ref Z 5917 .S5 C62
MLA International Bibliography	Indexes scholarly criticism in literature (1970-1986)	Ref Z 7006 .M64
Poetry and Short Story Explication
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication	Bibliography of criticism on short stories written since 1800	Ref PN 3373 .W33
An Index to Criticism of British and American Poetry	Bibliography of criticism of American and British poetry	Ref PR 89 .C5 1973
The Explicator Encyclopedia	Includes excerpts of explication of British and American poetry and prose	Ref PR 401 .E9 1966
Poetry Explication: A Checklist of interpretation Since 1952 of British and American Poems Past and Present	Title is self-explanatory	Ref PR 502 .P7 K8 1980
Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary	Most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the English language, includes extensive cross- references and word etymologies	q Ref PE 1625 .O87 1989