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Reference
Sources
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Information on Accessing Databases.
Allusions
& Characters
Allusions - Cultural, Literary, Biblical
and Historical.
Reference PN43 .A4 1986
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Reference Desk PN43 .B65 1995
Characters in 19th Century Literature
Reference PN56.4 .H69 1993
Characters in 20th Century Literature
Reference PN56.4 .C4 1995
Common Knowledge: a Reader's Guide to Literary
Allusions
Reference PN43 .G68 1987
Dictionary of American Literary Characters
Reference PS374 .C43D5 1990
Dictionary of British Literary Characters, 18th
and 19th Century Novels
Reference PR830 .C47D5 1993
Dictionary of British Literary Characters, 20th
Century Novels
Reference PR888 .C47D53 1994
Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction
Reference PN56.4 .P75 1996
Imaginary People: a Who's Who of Fictional Characters
from the Eighteenth to the Present Day.
Reference PN56.4 .P75 1996
Major Characters in American Fiction
Reference PS374 .C43M35 1994
New Cyclopedia of Names
Reference Desk PE1625 .C43 1954
The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fiction
Reference PN56.4 .A66 1985
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
Guides & Handbooks • Indexes
& Abstracts • Plot
Summaries • Quotations
• Reference
Sources
Bibliographies
Literary
Criticism • Themes
& Sources • Plays,
Poems, Stories in Collections
Bibliographies: Literary Criticism
American and British Poetry; a
Guide to the Criticism (1984)
Reference Desk Z2014 .P7A44
One of several bibliographies of poetry criticism
kept in the same area of the shelves by the Reference
Desk.
Black Literature, 1827-1940
Reference CD-ROM
Identifies fiction, poetry, book reviews, and
literary criticism published by African Americans
in newspapers and periodicals between 1827 and 1940.
Text available on Microfiche 1160.
Dramatic Criticism Index (1972)
Reference Desk Z5781 .B8
Other sets in this same area by the Reference
Desk cover British and American literature.
Essential Shakespeare; an Annotated
Bibliography of Major Modern Studies (1986)
Reference Desk PR2892 .C35
Good starting place for locating Shakespeare criticism.
Magill Index to Critical Surveys
(1994)
Reference Desk PN524 .M34 1994
Magill's Bibliography of Literary
Criticism (1979)
Reference Desk Z6511 .M25
One of several bibliographies by Reference Desk
for fiction criticism.
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication
(1977-1992)
Reference Desk Z5917 .S5W32
This set identifies critical articles on short
stories.
Bibliographies: Themes & Sources
Bibliography of Women and Literature
(1989)
Reference Z2014 .W65B66 1989
Blanck's Bibliography of American
Literature (1955- )
Reference Z1225 .B55
Eighteenth Century: Guide to the
Microfilm Collection
Reference Z2002 .E45
Eighteenth century imprints cited in this bibliography
are available on Microfilm 1272; the bibliography
is also available in electronic format through the
English
Short Title Catalogue.
Fiction Catalog
Reference Z5916 .W6 1997
Identifies fiction by theme.
New Cambridge Bibliography of English
Literature (1969-1977)
Reference Z2011 .N4
Pollard and Redgrave's Short-title
Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &
Ireland, and English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640
Reference Z2002 .P77 1976
Early English imprints cited in this bibliography
may be found in Microfilm 431; reel guides for the
set are Reference Z2002 .U57. Bibliography may also
be searched electronically through the English
Short Title Catalogue.
Wing's Short-title Catalogue of
Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales,
and British America, and of English Books Printed
in Other Countries, 1641-1700.
Reference Z2002 .W52
Microfilm set based on this bibliography is Microfilm
572. Reel guides are Reference Z2002 .E22 and Reference
Z2002 .U57. May also be searched electronically through
the English
Short Title Catalogue.
Bibliographies: Plays, Poems, Stories in Collections
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
in Anthologies (1997)
Reference Desk P1022 .H39
Locates poetry in anthologies. Earlier editions
in Reference collection may identify additional locations.
Index of American Periodical Verse
(1971 to present)
Reference Z1231 .P7147
Locates poems in American periodicals.
Index to Plays in Periodicals
(1979-1990)
Reference Desk Z5781 .K43
Basic volume and supplement useful for locating
plays published in periodicals.
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in
Collections (1988)
Reference Desk Z5781 .O82 1988
Locates plays in collections published between
1900 and 1985.
Play Index (1949 to present)
Reference Z5781 .P53
Ongoing bibliography which locates plays in collections.
Short Story Index (1953 to
present)
Reference Z5917 .S5S551
Ongoing bibliography which locates short stories
in collections published from 1900 to the present.
Biographies
Biography
and Geneaology Master Index
(1980 to present)
Reference Desk Z5305 .U5B57
Both printed and online versions are available.
Includes over 8,000,000 entries for living and dead
individuals. Locates biographical sketches in thousands
of biographical dictionaries.
Biography
Resource Center
Whereas the database above tells where to locate
biographical information, Biography Resource Center
provides the information. For literaty figures it
will also give selected criticism.
Contemporary Authors (1962
to present)
Reference PN771 .C6
Provides biographical sketches of modern authors.
The online version, which also links user to the Dictionary
of Literary Biography and much more, is available
through Literature
Resource Center. A cumulative index for the printed
set will be found at Reference Desk PN771 .C64 1998.
The cumulative index also indexes the Dictionary
of Literary Biography.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
(1978 to present)
Reference Classified with subject of each volume
Long articles prepared by scholars. Each volume
is catalogued separately. You may also locate all
volumes in the set by looking up the series title
in EUCLID (the online catalog). An online version,
including about 4000 essays from the DLB, along with
many other sources is available through Literature
Resource Center.
Index to the Wilson Author Series
(1991)
Reference Desk PN451 .I5 1991
Indexes Wilson author biographical sources including
Twentieth Century Authors (Reference PN771
.K85), World Authors, 1950-1990 (Reference
Desk PN451 .W6), American Authors, 1600-1900
(Reference PS21 .K8), British Authors Before 1800
(Reference PR105 .K9), British Authors of the Nineteenth
Century (Reference PR451 .K8), European Authors,
1100-1900 (Reference PN451 .K8).
World Authors, 1900-1950 (1996)
Reference PN451 .W674 1996
Revised edition of Twentieth Century Authors
and its supplement (see above).
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
Guides & Handbooks • Indexes
& Abstracts • Plot
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• Reference
Sources
Collections
of Criticism
Black Literature Criticism
(1992 to present)
Reference PS153 .N5B556
Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism (1988 to present)
Reference PN610 .C53
Contemporary Literary Criticism
1973 to present
Paper copies shelved in Reference PN771 .C65 provide
excerpts from contemporary literary criticism articles.
Literature
Resource Center, available online, includes selections
from the printed set and many other critical and biographical
sources.
Drama Criticism (1991 to present)
Reference PN1601 .D54
Hispanic Literature Criticism
(1994 to present)
Reference PQ7081 .A1H573
Literature Criticism from 1400
to 1800 (1984 to present)
Reference PN86 .L53
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
(1981 to present)
Reference PN761 .N5
Poetry Criticism (1991 to present)
Reference PN1111 .P63
Shakespearean Criticism (1988
to present)
Reference PR2965 .S43
Short Story Criticism (1988
to present)
Reference PN3373 .S386
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
(1978 to present)
Reference PN771 .T84
World Literature Criticism
(1992 to present)
Reference PN52 .W67 1992
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
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& Abstracts • Plot
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Sources
Dictionaries
Handbook to Literature
(1992)
Reference Desk PN41 .H 1992
Gives long definitions of many literary terms.
Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
Reference PE1625 .O87 1989
The Oxford
English Dictionary is also available electronically.
Pronoucing Dictionary of Proper
Names (1993)
Reference PE1137 .P82 1993
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
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& Abstracts • Plot
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• Reference
Sources
Guides
& Handbooks
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
(1996)
Reference Desk PN41 .B4 1996
Cambridge Guide to Theatre
(1995)
Reference Desk PN2035 .C27 1995
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
(1994)
Reference PN81 .J54 1994
Literary Research Guide: a Guide
to Reference Sources for the Study of Literatures
in English and Related Topics (1998)
Reference Z2011 .H34 1998
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry
and Poetics (1993)
Reference Desk PN1021 .N39 1993
Oxford Companion to American Literature
(1995)
Reference Desk PS21 .H37 1995
Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
(1997)
Reference PR9180.2 .O93 1997
Oxford Companion to English Literature
(1995)
Reference Desk PR19 .D73 1995
A Reference Guide for English Studies
(1990)
Reference PR56 .M37 1990
Reference Works in British and
American Literature (1990-91)
Reference Z2011 .B74 1990
A Research Guide for Undergraduate
Students: English and American Literature (1995)
Reference PR56 .B34 1995
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
Guides & Handbooks •
Indexes
& Abstracts • Plot
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Sources
Indexes
& Abstracts
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
(1920 to present)
Reference Z2011 .M69
Arts and Humanities Citation Index(1976
to present)
Reference Z5937 .A795
AHCI indexes over 1,000 periodicals completely
and another 5,000 selectively. They are in all major
western languages and cover all areas of the arts
and humanities. There are three parts to a citation
index: (1) the "Source Index" which gives full bibliographic
information for articles appearing in the journals
indexed during a particular year; (2) the "Permuterm
Subject Index," a keyword-in-title index to articles
listed in the Source Index; and (3) the "Citation
Index" which lists all the footnotes (citations) in
articles covered by the Source Index and which enables
a researcher to find recent articles through tracing
earlier (cited) articles. Search the GALILEO web version,
Arts
& Humanities Search
which vastly simplifies things. It goes back to 1980.
Another web version, Web
of Science, contains the AHCI back to 1987.
Book Review Digest (1905 to
present)
Reference Z1219 .C95
Book Review Index (1965 to
present)
Reference Z1219 .B63
Combined Retrospective Index to
Book Reviews in Humanities Journals (1802-1974)
Reference Z6265 .C65 1982
Humanities Index (1974 to present)
Reference AI3 .I52
Predecessors are the Social Sciences & Humanities
Index and the International Index...(Ref.
AI3 .I51).
Humanities
and Social Sciences Abstracts (and Retrospective)
is also available electronically from 1907 to date.
MLA International Bibliography
(1921 to present)
Z7003 .M6
An annual, from 1921 to 1955 the MLA was
limited to writings by Americans on English and western
European languages and literatures. In 1956 it began
to include writings by scholars from abroad and in
1959 it expanded coverage to include most of the world's
languages and literatures. From its beginning through
1980, the basic arrangement was by langauge/literature
subdivided chronologically and, within each time period,
by author. It was very hard to search by any subject
other than an author's name. In 1981 the bibliography
began providing full subject indexing. In the
online version of the MLA International Bibliography
,
which begins coverage in 1963, the peculiarities of
the print version regarding subject searching are
perpetuated so that subject searching prior to 1981
is essentially by title keyword or author name.
TLS, the Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Fully searchable archive of the TLS in image format
and full-page context, with the identities of contributors,
who were published anonymously until 1974.
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
Guides & Handbooks • Indexes
& Abstracts • Plot
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Sources
Plot
Summaries
Magill Index to Masterplots: Cumulative Indexes,
1963-1993 (1994)
Reference Desk Z6511 .M252
Masterplots:1801 Plot Stories and
Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature
(1996)
Reference PN44 .M26 1996
Masterplots II: African American
Literature Series (1994)
Reference PS153 .N5M2645 1994
Masterplots II: American Fiction
Series (1986)
Reference PN846 .M37 1986
Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth
Fiction Series (1987)
Reference PR881 .M39 1987
Masterplots II: Drama Series
(1990)
Reference PN6112.5 .M37 1990
Masterplots II: Poetry Series
(1992)
Reference PN1110.5 .M37 1992
Masterplots II: Short Story Series
(1986-1996)
Reference PN3326 .M27 1986
Masterplots II: Women's Literature
Series (1995)
Reference PN471 .M37 1995
Allusions
& Characters • Bibliographies
• Biographies
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of Criticism • Dictionaries
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& Abstracts • Plot
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Sources
Quotations
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations (1992)
Reference Desk PN6081 .B27 1992
Columbia Granger's Dictionary of
Poetry Quotations (1992)
Reference PN6082 .C57 1992
Dictionary of Literary Quotations
(1990)
Reference PN6081 .S728 1990
Wisdom of the Novel: a Dictionary
of Quotations (1985)
Reference PN6083 .P58 1985
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& Characters • Bibliographies
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• Collections
of Criticism • Dictionaries
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Databases
& Electronic Journals
Access to most of the electronic
resources listed below is limited to Emory University
faculty, students, and staff. Information
on Accessing Databases
To identify other databases and electronic
journal collections that provide references or full
text for journal articles, try our Databases
page.
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
1920 to 1996
"Aims to list monographs, periodical articles,
critical editions of literary works, book reviews,
collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published
anywhere in the world" dealing with English language
and literature.
JSTOR
Coverage varies
Some titles go back to the late 19th Century. JSTOR
(Journal Storage Project) contains the complete text
of every issue of 117 prominent scholarly journals.
Those of interest to students of literature include
ELH, MLN, Shakespeare Quarterly
and African American Review, among others.
Not only is the text of all articles available but
every word of every article is searchable. Coverage
is usually from the first issue of a journal up to
five years prior to the current year.
MLA
International Bibliography 
1963 to present
Indexes critical writing on literature, language,
linguistics and folklore. It includes articles from
over 3000 journals, books, and serials published worldwide.
Project
Muse
Provides worldwide, networked, subscription access
to the full text of more than forty of the Johns Hopkins
University Press's scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and mathematics. Includes several
periodicals of literary criticism.
RLIN
Bibliographic File
A union catalog of 75 million items held in comprehensive
research libraries and special libraries in RLG member
institutions, plus over 100 additional law, technical,
and corporate libraries using the Research Libraries
Information Network. Especially useful to scholars
who are trying to locate manuscript collections.
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