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Call # PR |
British Lit |
Subject |
Subclasses |
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1-56 |
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Literary history and criticism |
|
|
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57-78 |
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Criticism |
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|
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111-116 |
|
Women authors |
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|
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125-(138.5) |
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Relations to other literatures and countries |
|
|
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161-488 |
|
By period |
|
|
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171-236 |
|
|
Anglo-Saxon (Beginnings through 1066) |
|
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251-369 |
|
|
Medieval. Middle English (1066-1500) |
|
|
401-488 |
|
|
Modern |
|
|
421-(429) |
|
|
|
Elizabethan era (1550-1640) |
|
431-(439) |
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|
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17th century |
|
441-(449) |
|
|
|
18th century |
|
451-(469) |
|
|
|
19th century |
|
471-(479) |
|
|
|
20th century |
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481-488 |
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|
|
21st century |
|
500-614 |
|
Poetry |
|
|
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521-614 |
|
|
By period |
|
|
621-744 |
|
Drama |
|
|
|
641-744 |
|
|
By period |
|
|
750-890 |
|
Prose |
|
|
|
767-818 |
|
|
By period |
|
|
821-890 |
|
|
Prose fiction. The novel |
|
|
901-907.2 |
|
Oratory |
|
|
|
908 |
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Diaries |
|
|
|
911-918 |
|
Letters |
|
|
|
921-928 |
|
Essays |
|
|
|
931-938 |
|
Wit and humor |
|
|
|
(951)-981 |
|
Folk literature |
|
|
|
1098-1369 |
|
Collections of English literature |
|
|
|
1110 |
|
|
Special classes of authors |
|
|
1119-1151 |
|
|
By period |
|
|
1170-1228 |
|
|
Poetry |
|
|
1241-1273 |
|
|
Drama |
|
|
1281-1309 |
|
|
Prose (General) |
|
|
1321-1329 |
|
|
Oratory |
|
|
1330 |
|
|
Diaries |
|
|
1341-1349 |
|
|
Letters |
|
|
1361-1369 |
|
|
Essays |
|
|
1490-1799 |
|
Anglo-Saxon literature |
|
|
|
1803-2165 |
|
Anglo-Norman period. Early English. Middle |
|
|
|
2199-3195 |
|
English renaissance (1500-1640) |
|
|
|
3291-3785 |
|
17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770) |
|
|
|
3991-5990 |
|
19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900 |
|
|
|
6000-6049 |
|
1900-1960 |
|
|
|
6050-6076 |
|
1961-2000 |
|
|
|
6100-6126 |
|
2001- |
|
|
|
8309-9680 |
|
English literature: Provincial, local, etc. |
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|
|
Call # PS |
|
Topics |
Subtopics |
|
|
126-138 |
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Biography, memoirs, letters, etc. |
|
|
|
147-152 |
|
Women authors |
|
|
|
163-173 |
|
Treatment of special subjects, classes |
|
|
|
185-231 |
|
By period |
|
|
|
185-195 |
|
|
17th-18th centuries |
|
|
201-217 |
|
|
19th century |
|
|
221-228 |
|
|
20th century |
|
|
229-231 |
|
|
21st century |
|
|
241-286 |
|
Special regions, states, etc. |
|
|
|
241-255 |
|
|
North |
|
|
261-267 |
|
|
South |
|
|
271-285 |
|
|
West and Central |
|
|
301-326 |
|
Poetry |
|
|
|
330-353 |
|
Drama |
|
|
|
360-380 |
|
Prose |
|
|
|
370-380 |
|
|
Prose fiction |
|
|
400-408.2 |
|
Oratory |
|
|
|
409 |
|
Diaries |
|
|
|
410-419 |
|
Letters |
|
|
|
420-429 |
|
Essays |
|
|
|
430-439 |
|
Wit and humor. Satire |
|
|
|
(451)-478 |
|
Folk literature |
|
|
|
490 |
|
Juvenile literature (General) |
|
|
|
501-689 |
|
Collections of American literature |
|
|
|
530-536.3 |
|
|
By period |
|
|
537-574 |
|
|
By region |
|
|
538-549 |
|
|
|
North |
|
551-559 |
|
|
|
South |
|
561-572 |
|
|
|
West and Central |
|
580-619 |
|
|
Poetry |
|
|
593 |
|
|
|
By form |
|
601-617 |
|
|
|
By period |
|
623-(635) |
|
|
Drama |
|
|
642-659.5 |
|
|
Prose (General) |
|
|
651-659.2 |
|
|
|
By period |
|
660-668.2 |
|
|
Oratory |
|
|
666-668.2 |
|
|
|
By period |
|
669 |
|
|
Diaries |
|
|
670-678.2 |
|
|
Letters |
|
|
680-689 |
|
|
Essays |
|
|
700-3576 |
|
Individual authors |
|
|
|
700-893 |
|
|
Colonial period (17th and 18th centuries) |
|
|
991-(3390) |
|
|
19th century |
|
|
3500-3549 |
|
|
1900-1960 |
|
|
3550-3576 |
|
|
1961-2000 |
|
|
3600-3626 |
|
|
2001- |
|
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(8001-8599) |
CA literature |
|
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|
| P | Philology. Linguistics |
| PA | Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature |
| PB | Modern languages. Celtic language |
| PC | Romanic languages |
| PD | Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages |
| PE | English language |
| PF | West Germanic languages |
| PG | Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian language |
| PH | Uralic languages. Basque language |
| PJ | Oriental languages and literatures |
| PK | Indo-Iranian languages and literatures |
| PL | Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PM Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages |
| PN | Literature (General) |
| PQ | French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature |
| PR | English literature |
| PS | American literature |
| PT | German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 Afrikaans literature - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian - Modern Icelandic literature - Faroese literature - Danish literature - Norwegian literature - Swedish literature |
| PZ | Fiction and juvenile belles lettres |
For more detail, see the Library of Congress Classification Outline for Class P.