Research Guides: English Literature: Graduate & Advanced Studies: Overview

Background & Reference Information

Literary Research Guide
Call Number: Fondren Library, Centennial Reading Room, Reference, Non-circulating PR83 .H37 2008
James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide, which Choice calls "the standard guide in the field," evaluates important reference materials in English studies.
The link will take you to the online, 6th edition.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new window
Fulltext articles on critical & theoretical schools & movements, with historical context
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Gives background information and provides citations for the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Includes: African American Studies, African Studies, American Literature, Atlantic History, British and Irish Literature, Classics, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature.

Humanities Index
Call Number: Fondren Library , Centennial Reading Room, Non-circulating, AI3 .H8
Year's Work in English Studies
Each volume includes a detailed overview from Old English to contemporary critical works for a given year, and contains critical notices for some 1100 books; extensive coverage of English Language, American Literature, New Literatures in English and English Literature; coverage of specialist periodicals; comprehensive indexing by critic, author, and subject; plus bibliographical endnotes for each chapter.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals 1802-1974
Ten volumes of book reviews.

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.

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Subjects: English, Liberal Studies, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, World Languages & Literatures, Writing & Reasoning