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Dictionary of Literary Biography
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These works provide biographical information on thousands of American authors - online and searchable!

Selected Titles:

The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Covers all English language writers. Extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters. Online.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
5 volume encyclopedia covering all genres and time periods.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
A comprehensive guide to the the literature and literary culture of Ireland, with entries on writers and their works, movements, genres, and more.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Provides essay length entries on critics, schools of criticism, movements, etc. (In print: check catalogue record for locations.)
The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. All our articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors in our Editorial Board. The LE is thus uniquely selective, reliable and authoritative. Its online format allows for rapid publication and frequent updating of articles; its integrated digital resources (author life-chronologies, customisable timelines, thematic or course-oriented bookshelves, related article clusters, critical bibliographies) respond dynamically to teaching and learning demands.
http://www.litencyc.com/litencycdescribed.php

Literary Index This link opens in a new window
This site has a master index to works like Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors and more. To get the actual entries you need to search the Library Catalogue for holdings.

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