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• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
    Raynor Reference PN41 .B4 1996
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: online compilation of the earlier editions of this landmark set. The 1939 edition is in Memorial Library general collection.
• Contemporary literary criticism
    Raynor Reference PN771 .C59
• Twentieth-century literary criticism
    Raynor Reference PN771 .T92
• Nineteenth-century literature criticism
    Raynor Reference PN761 .N56
• Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
    Raynor Reference PN86 .L56
• Britannica Online: good background on authors and historical periods; good bibliographies and selected Internet links

Tip: Always use the Subject search, last name first, when looking for books about an author, such as books of biography or criticism on the subject of William Faulkner.  Use the Author search function when looking for the library's titles and editions by a particular author, such as Charles Dickens.

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• English Language and Literature e-books in Marqcat

• Oxford English Dictionary: exhaustive historical dictionary of the English language; 20 volume set also available in Raynor Reference PE 1625 .O87
• American National Biography: also available in Raynor Reference CT213 .A68 1999
• Biography Resource Center : including the full text of Contemporary Authors
•  American writers
    Raynor Reference PS129 .A55
•  British writers
    Raynor Reference PR 85 .B688
•  Dictionary of literary biography
    Raynor Reference PN451.D535
• Literary Index Master index to almost 50 literary series published by Gale.  Check results in MARQCAT for Reference location.
•  The Oxford companion to American literature
    Raynor Reference PS21 .H3 1995
•  The Oxford companion to English literature
    Raynor Reference PR19 .H37 1998
• Wilson Biographies Plus

     Scholarly Journals:

• MLA International Bibliography (via LION): index to 2000+ scholarly journals of literature criticism, 1963 to present.
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL): (via LION) index for scholarly journals of literary criticism, 1920 to present.
• Humanities in ProQuest: less comprehensive than MLA, includes both scholarly and popular sources, some articles in full text
• Academic Search Elite: less comprehensive than MLA, includes both scholarly and popular sources, some articles in full text

• ProQuest Research Library: coverage of literary topics in general interest magazines and selected scholarly journals; includes some full text

• First-Year English
• Advanced Literary Research
• Children's Literature (ENGL 173)
• Research Starting Points Guide to Drama
• Research Starting Points Guide to Fiction
• Research Starting Points Guide to Poetry

• English Language and Literature
• English Language and Literature e-books in Marqcat
• English Language and Literature e-journals in Marqcat
• Selected Sources in other subjects

• J.R.R. Tolkien Collection

• How to evaluate information resources
• MLA handbook for writers of research papers (available in the library; link to location and call number here)
• MLA Style information on the MLA web site (including a link to guidelines and examples of documenting web sources)