Subject Guide: British Literature
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Literature
Resource Center - All inclusive database contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain biographies of
authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information. Also includes selected full-text, excepted, and commissioned
critical material from Gale’s Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children’s Literature Review,
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature
of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism,
Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth- Century Literary Criticism.
Twentieth
Century English Poetry - Contains a collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present, including
W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, and many others.
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General databases
Academic
Search Premier - Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer science, and ethnic studies.
WorldCat
- Contains over 30 million catalog records and holdings information
for material owned by libraries around the world, including books, journals,
maps, sound recordings and other media.
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Internet Sites
American Literature
and Online Research - a website dedicated to helping anyone who
wants to use the Internet to research American Literature. Provides
links to online resources.
Biography - searchable database
containing 20,000 personalities.
Additional web sites are available through various search engines. Try
Yahoo! or MetaCrawler
to search by subject, title, or for individual poets.
Books and Journals
Books may be found using the library's online
catalog. In the library, you can find books according to their
classification number. Books that have "Ref." before the classification
number in the Library
of Congress and "R" before the classification number in Dewey Decimal
number are reference books (First floor).
Dewey classification for short stories is: 800
Library of Congress Classification is in the area: PS or PZ
If you need help ask any of the librarians, technical staff or student
assistant to assist you.
Online
full-text journals are available. These journals are arranged by
title.
Also, the library subscribes to periodicals in
paper copy or microfiche. They are shelved or filed in alphabetical
order according to title.
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Reference Sources
- Contemporary Authors: Contains short biographical articles. The library has Contemporary Authors available on its database. (Ref. Z
1224 .C6)
- Contemporary Literary Criticism: Contains excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, and playwrights. (Ref. PN 771.C59)
- Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography: Contains biographical information on British literary figures. (Ref. PR 19.C64 1991)
- Critical Survey of Poetry : Contains biographical and analytical information on poets and poems. (Ref. PR 502. C85 1992
- Dictionary of Literary Biography: Has biographical Information on poets. The library has Dictionary of Literary Biography available on its database. (Ref. PS 221. D5)
- English Romantic Poets: Gathers together a representative selection of the best criticism to the six major English Romantics poets.(Ref. PR 590.E48 1986)
- Granger's Index to Poetry: Useful in locating a poem by poets, first line or title. (R 808.8 G758i9)
- Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism: Contains essays on nineteenth century novelist, poets, playwrights, and short story writers. (Ref. PN 761. N56)
- Poetry Criticism: Has critical information concerning Poetry. (R 808.1 P745)
- Poetry Explication: Contains information of poets and poems. (R 016.821 K95p3)
- Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: Has critical information on twentieth-century writers. (Ref. PN 771. G27
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