Reference Sources
- American writers - Ref PS 129 .A55 (4 volumes)
- Benet's reader's encyclopedia - Ref PN 41 .B4 1996
- British writers - Ref PR 85 .B688 (8 volumes)
- Columbia Grangers index to poetry in anthologies - Ref PN 1022 .H39 2002
- Contemporary literary criticism - Ref PN 771 .C59 (multi-volume set)
- Dictionary of literary biography - Ref PS 221 .D5 (multi-volume set)
- Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory - Ref PN 41 .C83 1998
- Dictionary of literary themes and motifs - Ref PN 43 .D48 1988 (2 volumes)
- Encyclopedia of the novel - Ref PN 41 .E487 1998 (2 volumes)
- Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century - Ref PN 771 .E5 1999 (4 volumes)
- Familiar quotations (Bartlett) - Ref PN 6081 .B27 2002b
- Harvard concordance to Shakespeare - Ref PR 2892 .S62
- Masterplots - Ref PN 44 .M33 1996 (12 volumes)
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama - Ref PN 1625 .M3 1984 (5 volumes)
- MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing - Ref PN 147 .G444 1998
- New York Public Library literature companion - Ref PN 41 .N49 2001
- Oxford dictionary of quotations - Ref PN 6080 .O95 2004
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
This is the online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The OED is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. - Oxford guide to style - Ref PN 147 .R58 2002
- A student's dictionary of language and linguistics - Ref P 29 .T69 1997
- Twentieth-century literary criticism - Ref PN 94 .T93 (multi-volume set)
- Writer's market - Ref PN 161 .W83 2007
Databases/Journal Articles
BookReview
Reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books.
EssayGenLit
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles on Current Events, Economics, History, Psychology, Humanities, Religion, Education, Literature & Art, Sociology, Political Science and more.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MLA (Modern Languages Association Bibliography)
Citation index of journal articles covering literature, language, linguistics and folklore.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
This is the online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The OED is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Project Muse
Searchable full text of journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press in the disciplines of Humanities, Social Sciences and Mathematics.
ProQuest Humanities Module
Search selected Proquest journals in the humanities. Contains many full-text articles.
Women's Writers Project
Project from Brown University which includes text of writings by women authors from 1400 to 1850.
Internet Resources
ALEX Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
APA Style
Purdue University page regarding APA (American Psychological Association) format for scholarly writing.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
"A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature"
bibliomania (Search for texts by author or title.)
Free online literature with more than 2000 classic texts, searchable for by author or title. Literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books.
Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources
"The purpose of this site is not to duplicate the vast amount of Chaucer material that has appeared on the Internet in the last five years, but to sift and sort."
Documentation and Style Guide - Chicago Manual of Style
This guide provides students with the basics involved in documentation using footnotes. It is based on The Chicago Manual of Style with some modifications.
Strunk's Elements of Style
Searchable, e-version of Strunk's book, provided by Bartleby.com. "Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student or writer."
MLA Format
Purdue University page regarding MLA (Modern Language Association) format for scholarly writing.
Write Source - MLA Documentation Style
This page will help you correctly list your electronic sources in MLA style.
