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The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides comprehensive access to a series of publications which include "reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes, biographical information on thousands of American authors - online and searchable!"
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Reference Works
- The Oxford Companion to English LiteratureCovers all English language writers. Extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters. Online.
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature5 volume encyclopedia covering all genres and time periods.
- The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish LiteratureA 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 & CriticismProvides essay length entries on critics, schools of criticism, movements, etc. (In print:: PN81.J54 2005 (QEII and Grenfell).
- The Literary EncyclopediaThe 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.
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- Literary Index This link opens in a new windowThis 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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