Research Guides and Bibliographies

Go to the Reference Collection (4^th floor, Main Library) to find encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographic guides and biographical sources specific to your area of research. This is a selection of recommended titles in English Language and Literatures.

Baker, Nancy L. A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature. 5^th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. Reference PR 56 .B34 2000

Reference Guide to American Literature. Thomas Riggs, editor. 4^th ed. Detroit: St. James Pr., 2000. Reference PS 129 .R44 2000

Marcuse, Michael J. A Reference Guide for English Studies. Berkeley: University of California Pr., 1990. Reference PR 56 .M37 1990

Reference Guide to World Literature. Lesley Henderson, editor. 2^nd ed. New York: St. James Pr., 1995. Reference PR 524 .R44 1995

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. William J. Frawley, editor. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003. Reference P 29 .S8 2003

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1993. Reference PN 1021 .N39 1993

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, editors. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1994. Reference PN 81 .J554 1994

Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs. Jean-Charles Seigneuret, editor. New York: Greenwood Pr., 1988. Reference PN 43 .D48 1988

Evans, Ivor H. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 14^th ed. New York: Harper, 1989. Reference PN 43 .B65 1989

American Ethnic Writers. David Peck, editor. Pasadena: Salem Pr., 2000. Reference PS 153 .M56 A414 2000.

American Women Writers: a Critical Reference Guide: from Colonial Times to the Present. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgfaf, editor. 2^nd ed. Detroit: St. James, 2000. Reference PS 147 .A42 2000

New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage. Alpana Sharma Knippling, editor. Westport: Greenwood Pr., 1996. Reference PS 153 .M56 N475 1996

Companion to African Literatures. Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe, editors. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Pr., 2000. Reference PR 9340 .C65 1999

Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander, editors. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Reference PS 128 .D5 V. 157

Twenty-First-Century British and Irish Novelists. Michael R. Molino, editor. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003. Reference PR 889 .T86 2003