Handbooks, Dictionaries, Bibliographies, Periodical Indexes
HBLL 2005-2006
see also the related research guides on English Literature,
Folklore,
Literary Theory & Criticism, and
Women's Literature
Robert S. Means, English and American Literature Librarian, 5525 HBLL, 422-6117
robert_means@byu.edu
CONTENTS
American literature is classified in the Library Congress (LC)
numbers PS 1-3576 - in the stacks as well as in Humanities/Religion Reference
(Humanities Ref.), where we keep a selection of American literature reference sources.
Below are some examples.
| HANDBOOKS |
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| Humanities Ref. PN 41 .F75 1997 |
The Harper Handbook to Literature / Northrop Frye ... [et al.]. 2nd [rev.] ed. New York : Longman, c1997. | ||
| Humanities Ref. PS 94 .L83 1986 |
Annals of American Literature, 1602-1983 / edited by Richard M. Ludwig and Clifford A. Nault, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. A year-by-year chronology of publications, author births and deaths, relevant contemporary artistic and historical events, etc. | ||
| Humanities Ref. PS 21 .H3 1995 |
The Oxford Companion to American Literature / James D. Hart ; with revisions and additions by Phillip W. Leininger. 6th ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. | ||
| Humanities Ref. PS 88 .X1 B73 2001 |
The undergraduate's companion to American writers
and their websites/ James K. Bracken, Larry G. Hinman. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001 |
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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES |
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| Humanities Ref. |
The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
This is an especially well rounded, well illustrated source, with a list of the author's primary works, biography, analysis and criticism, photographs and facsimiles, and a list of the best secondary sources. Also available electronically through Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale) |
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| Humanities Ref. |
Contemporary Authors Provides complete biographical references for more than 90,000 current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields from the U.S. and around the world. In both print and electronic formats. Also available electronically through Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale). |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 185 .A4 1983 |
American Writers Before 1800 : a Biographical
and Critical Dictionary Edited by James A. Levernier and Douglas R. Wilmes. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1983. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 201 .X1 F85 1989 |
Selective Bibliography of American Literature, 1775-1900
: a Brief Estimate of the More Important American Authors and a Description
of Their Representative Works By B.M. Fullerton ; with an introduction by Carl Van Doren. Woodbridge, Conn. : Ox Bow Press, 1989. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 88 .X1 W55 1995 |
Epitome of Bibliography of American Literature
Compiled by Michael Winship, with Philip B. Eppard and Rachel J. Howarth. Golden, Colo. : North American Press, 1995. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 62 .X1 C7 1998 |
A critical bibliography of American literature studies. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.: Published for the English Association by Blackwell, 1998. 4 volumes covering scholarship from 1954-1994. |
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SPECIALIZED SOURCES (literary periods, genre, gender, regional and ethnic literatures) |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 191.X1 G34 |
Early Puritan Writers : a Reference Guide : William
Bradford, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, Edward Johnson, Richard Mather, Thomas
Shepard Edward J. Gallagher, Thomas Werge. Boston : G. K. Hall, c1976. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 217 .T7 E53 1996 |
Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism Edited by Wesley T. Mott. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1996. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 163 .A6 1996 |
American Nature Writers John Elder, editor. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1996. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 316 .E53 1998 |
Encyclopedia of American Poetry. The Nineteenth Century Edited by Eric L. Haralson ; John Hollander, advisory editor. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 147 .O94 1995 |
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United
States Editors in chief, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin ; editors, Elizabeth Ammons ... [et al.]. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 261 .C569 1999 |
Contemporary Southern Writers Guest foreword by Thomas M. Carlson ; editor, Roger Matuz. Detroit : St. James Press, c1999. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 374 .C54 X7 1986 |
Civil War Novels : an Annotated Bibliography
Albert J. Menendez. New York : Garland, 1986. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 228 .V5 H55 1998 |
The Vietnam Experience : a Concise Encyclopedia of
American Literature, Songs, and Films Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 271 .X1 E88 1995 |
A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American
Literature Edited by Richard W. Etulain and N. Jill Howard. 2nd ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1995. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 153 .J4 X53 1991 |
Jewish American Fiction Writers : an Annotated Bibliography
Gloria L. Cronin, Blaine H. Hall, Connie Lamb. New York : Garland Pub., 1991. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 153 .N5 O96 1997 |
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 153.N5 R65 1989 |
The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond : Literary Biographies
of 100 Black Women Writers,1900-1945 Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1990. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 173 .I6 X8 1985 |
The Native American in American Literature : a Selectively
Annotated Bibliography Compiled by Roger O. Rock. Westport, Conn. ; London, England : Greenwood Press, 1985. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 169 .N35 A44 1995 |
American Diversity, American Identity : the Lives and
Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience John K. Roth, editor. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 1995. |
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| Humanities Ref. PS 153 .M56 N475 1996 |
New Immigrant Literatures in the United States : a
Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage Edited by Alpana Sharma Knippling. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. |
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HBLL CATALOG |
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| SEARCHING FEATURES
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| Keyword Searching | Searches every field in the record (brings up a lot, but not always relevant material). | ||
| Advanced Searching | Allows you to customize your search to look for words in the title, subject field or elsewhere in the record. | ||
| Browse Alphabetically | Searches the subject field in the record (what the book is about). This is the best way to find what the HBLL has about an author: simply enter the author's last name, first name (for example "Frost, Robert") and you'll get a list of works on Frost: bibliographies, biographies, criticism and interpretation, etc. |
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| Truncation | Use the "$" to search for the variations on a root word: "poet$" will retrieve "poets," "poetry," "poetic," "poetics," etc. |
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| Subject Links | When you're looking at a book record in the HBLL catalog, check the highlighted subject links, you may want to click on one to bring up other titles in the HBLL that deal with the same subject. | ||
| Call Number Browsing | When you find a book on your subject, click on the highlighted call number in the upper LH corner of the HBLL catalog record to see what other books are near it on the shelf. | ||
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PERIODICAL INDICES |
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MLA |
MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) The Modern Language Association International Bibliography Indexes articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. From 1921 in the print version. The electronic version covers from 1963, and is updated ten times per year. |
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| ABELL |
ABELL Annual Bibliography of English Lang. & Literature Indexes books, scholarly articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and dissertations dealing with English language and literature published anywhere in the world. From 1920 in both print and electronic versions. |
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| JSTOR Contains 48 of the very best literature journals in full-text going back to their first issue (in some cases to the late 1800's). The articles are retrieved in Adobe Acrobat and so appear as they did when they were originally published. |
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| Project MUSE Indexes the full text of nearly 200 scholarly journals in literature, literary theory, and popular culture studies; however, in most cases, only a few of the most recent years of each journal are available in the Project MUSE archives. |
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| American Periodical Series Online 1741-1900 (ProQuest - Full text) This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines still in print, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's and Ladies' Home Journal. Select APS from Collections in the Proquest Database. Early American Periodicals Series I (1741-1800 Index only) Early American Periodicals Series II (1800-1850 Index only) Three volumes: I (1741-1800), II (1800-1850) and III (1850-1935) indexes 89 different 18th century periodicals, 911 periodicals published between 1800 and 1850, and 118 periodicals from the Civil War and Reconstruction era published during the last half of the 19th century. the APS periodicals are on reels of microfilm (call number 051) in the Microforms/Genealogy area of the library on Level 2. |
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| IBZ |
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) Aus allen Gebieten des Wissens = International bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge = Bibliographie internationale de la litt鲡ture p鲩odique dans tous les domaines de la connaissance. Indexes international periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Electronic version indexes from 1989. Updated twice a year. |
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| PCI Full Text (Periodical Contents Index or Periodicals Archive Online - PAO) Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues through 1991 (1770-1991). Includes journals in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI): Web of Science (ISI) From 1975-1993 in the print version. Indexes over 1,300 international arts and humanities journals. Also indexes all references cited within the articles. The electronic version, the Arts/Humanities Search (Citations), indexes from 1980, and is updated weekly. |
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| Humanities Index |
Humanities Index Includes 350 journals in archaeology, area studies, art, classics, communications, dance, film, history, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. From 1974 in the print version. The electronic version, Humanities Full Text (EBSCO), covers from 1984, and is updated monthly. |
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OTHER LITERARY RESOURCES |
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| Literature Resource Center (LRC) |
Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale) Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, critical analysis, and web resources of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Searchable by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement, or Literary Themes. |
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| Early American Fiction |
Early American Fiction Contains searchable texts by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe (to name a few). Available directly at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubbrowse/. |
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| Wright's American Fiction, 1851-1875. |
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 A collection of 19th Century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography "American Fiction, 1851-1875." There are currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors. Available directly at http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/. |
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| Literature Online |
Literature Online (LION) Indexes the full-text of nine literary databases dealing with English poetry and drama, 18th century fiction, American and African poetry and Shakespeare. Also contains selected reference works, and provides access to related literary websites. |
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| OED |
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online 2nd ed. / prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. The 20 volume, 2nd edition (1989), includes 320,000 entries of English words; 580,000 cross-references; and 2.4 million quotations. |
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Selected Web Sites (in the Lee Library and on the Internet) dealing with English and American Literature. Accessible directly at http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/ResearchGuides/engam_links.html" |
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| Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry Humanities Ref. PN 1022 .H39 |
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry The print version in its 11th edition, is searchable by title, first or last line, subject and author. The electronic version, Granger's World of Poetry indexes the full-text of the 9th-11th editions of Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. Includes 200,000 poem citations, 13,000 poems in full-text, biographies on hundreds of poets, and commentaries on hundreds of the most frequently anthologized poems. |
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| Short Story Index Humanities Ref. PN 3451 .X1 S58 |
Short Story Index (EBSCO) |
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| Play Index Humanities Ref. PN 1655 .X1 P53 |
Play Index Going back to 1949, Play Index includes plays published both in collections and separately, and is searchable by title, author and subject. |
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Contains full-text essays from the Masterplots series. Database is searchable by title, author, character, etc. |
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| Book Review Digest
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Indexes book reviews of popular English-language fiction and non-fiction from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. From 1905 in the print version. The electronic version covers from 1983. |
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OTHER LIBRARY RESOURCES / SERVICES |
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| Catalogs of Other Libraries |
The library's homepage provides access to the online catalogs of other libraries: academic and public libraries in Utah, and across the USA (including the Library of Congress). For example: RLIN (the Research Library Information Network) and OCLC (Worldcat), the two largest networked databases of records from major research libraries in the country, also catalogs of libraries in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. | ||
| Interlibrary Loan 3421 HBLL |
Books or journals not held by the Lee Library may be obtained from other libraries, through the Interlibrary Loan office. Books are sent free of charge. Journal articles are photocopied or scanned and sent as email attachments. | ||
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