Handbooks, Dictionaries, Bibliographies, HBLL Catalog
LC Subclasses, Periodical Indices, Other Literary Resources and Services
HBLL 2003-2004
see also the related research guides on
Shakespeare,
American Literature,
Folklore and
Literary Theory and Criticism
Robert S. Means, English and American Literature Librarian,
5525 HBLL, 422-6117
robert_means@byu.edu
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English (British) literature, and American literature are classified in the Library Congress (LC) numbers PR 1-9680 and PS 1-3576, respectively - in the stacks as well as in Humanities Reference (Humanities Ref.), where we keep a selection of English and American literature reference sources. Below are some examples.
| HANDBOOKS TO LITERATURE |
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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. PR 19 .D73 1998 |
The Oxford Companion to English Literature / edited by Margaret Drabble. Rev. ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Humanities Ref. PR 111 .F463x 1990 |
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English : Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present / editors, Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy ; consulting editors, Barbara Christian ... [et al.] ; contributing editors, Julia Boffey ... [et al.] New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LITERARY DICTIONARIES |
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| Humanities Ref. |
The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) 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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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. Also available electronically through Literature Resource Center (LRC)(Gale). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Humanities Ref. PN 43 .D48 1988 |
Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs / Jean-Charles Seigneuret, editor ... [et al.]. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Humanities Ref. PR 149 .B5 D53 1992 |
A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature / David Lyle Jeffrey, general editor. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c1992. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BIBLIOGRAPHIES |
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| Humanities Ref. PR 83 .X1 N45 |
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature / edited by George Watson. Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1969- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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| SUBCLASSES IN BRITISH ENGLISH LITERATURE - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (LC) CALL NUMBERS |
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| PERIODICAL INDICES |
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MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) 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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| JSTOR Contains 48of 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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| Humanities Ref. PE 51 .X1 M69 |
Annual Bibliography of English Language and
Literature (ABELL) 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 print and electronic versions. |
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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 littérature périodique 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 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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| Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (Gale) Indexes the full-text of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) from 1902-1990. Indexes over 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles from over 5,000 issues. |
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| Internet Library of Early Journals 18th-century journals (Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), and 19th-century (Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine). |
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| AI 1 .A27x |
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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Linguistics/Language Behavior Abstracts -- LLBA (ProQuest) Indexes and abstracts articles from 2,000 U.S. and foreign periodicals in language use, linguistics, and related disciplines. From 1967-93 in print version; electronic version covers from 1973, and is updated twice a year. |
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Humanities Full Text (EBSCO) 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 Abstracts, covers from 1984, and is updated monthly. |
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| OTHER LITERARY RESOURCES |
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| 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 byAuthor Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. |
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| Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Images Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Texts Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles published between 1475-1700. Combining the listings of the major short-title catalogs, EEBO includes publications in all subjects: literature, religion, government, medicine, science, and music. EEBO provides the facsimile of each work, so researchers can study these publications as they appeared: books printed by William Caxton, the earliest editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Book of Common Prayer (1549), The King James Bible (1611), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), and works by Erasmus, Sir Isaac Newton, Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Galileo, as well as acts of Parliament, government documents on the early slave trade, and musical exercises by Henry Purcell. |
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| Early American Fiction Contains searchable texts by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe (to name a few). |
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| Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 A collection of 19th Centuray 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. |
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| Selected web sites dealing with English and American literature. |
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| 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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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online 2nd ed. The Lee Library has both the print and CD-ROM version of the 20 volume, 2nd edition (1989). Includes 320,000 entries of English words; 580,000 cross-references; and 2.4 million quotations. CD-ROM available at Humanities/Religion Reference. |
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| 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 (EBSCO) Provides access by author, title and subject for stories from collections; author and title access for stories from periodicals. Subject access in SSI includes theme, locale, narrative technique or device (such as surprise endings, dialect stories, parodies, story within a story) and genre. The SSI database indexes approximately 76,500 short stories from approximately 3,610 collections, and 155 periodicals in Humanities Index and Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Over 1,350 short stories are included in full text. Currently, SSI, Electronic Edition, covers the content of the SSI print edition from 1984 through 1998, and the electronic database is scheduled to grow by about 4,500 records each year. |
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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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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, and is updated monthly. |
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| OTHER RESOURCES / SERVICES |
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| Catalogs of Other Libraries | The HBLL home page provides access to the online catalogs of other libraries: academic and public libraries in Utah, and across the USA (including the Library of Congress). The library home page also connects you to RLIN (the Research Library Information Network) and OCLC (Worldcat), the two largest databases of records from major research libraries in the country. It also links to catalogs of libraries in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and South America, Europe, and the UK. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 and can be kept for 2 weeks. Journal articles are photocopied and sent for a charge of 10 cents per page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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