AUTHOR Patterson, Margaret C.
TITLE Literary research guide / Margaret C. Patterson.
EDITION 2nd ed., 2nd rev. print.
PUBLISHER New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1984.
NOTE Subtitle: An evaluative, annotated bibliography of important
reference books and periodicals on English, Irish, Scottish,
Welsh, Commonwealth, American, Afro-American, American Indian,
continental, classical, and world literatures, and sixty
literature-related subject areas including bibliography,
biography, book collecting, film, folklore, linguistics, little
magazines, prosody, reviews, teaching resources, textual
criticism, women's studies.
Leyburn-Reference PN43 .P3 1984
(explains the research process and the library tools [extensive
annotation more than 1600 sources]. There are two "worked examples" of
materials for specific research problmes: on Flannery O'Connor and Lord
Byron [pp xvi-xxviii], well worth looking at)
AUTHOR Harner, James L.
TITLE Literary research guide : a guide to reference sources for the
study of literatures in English and related topics / James L.
Harner.
EDITION 2nd ed.
PUBLISHER New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1993.
Leyburn-Reference PR83 .H34 1993
(an expansion and updating of Patterson 1984, including many more
sources; THE place to begin. "...intended as a vademecum for
researchers --from advanced undergraduates to experienced scholars--
pursuing a topic at a more than superficial level..." [Introduction])
Another general guide:
AUTHOR Marcuse, Michael J.
TITLE A reference guide for English studies / Michael J. Marcuse.
PUBLISHER Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.
SUBJECT English literature --Library resources.
Bibliography --Bibliography --English literature.
Reference books --English literature --Bibliography.
American literature --Library resources.
Bibliography --Bibliography --American literature.
Reference books --American literature --Bibliography.
Performing arts --Library resources.
Bibliography --Bibliography --Performing arts.
Leyburn-Reference PR56 .M37 1990
For Middle English:
TITLE A Manual of the writings in Middle English, 1050-1500 / by
members of the Middle English Group of the Modern Language
Association of America.
PUBLISHER New Haven : Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-
SUBJECT English literature --Middle English, 1100-1500 --History and
criticism.
English literature --Middle English, 1100-1500 --Bibliography.
Leyburn Library PR255 .M3 v. 1
And for American literature:
TITLE Literary history of the United States. Editors: Robert E. Spiller
[and others]
EDITION 4th ed., rev.
PUBLISHER New York, Macmillan [c1974]
SUBJECT American literature --History and criticism.
American literature --Bibliography.
Leyburn-Reference PS88 .L522 1974 v. 1
There are 3 dictionary-style guides/companions to English literature,
useful for short descriptions of characters, authors, works and
specialized literary terminology. The overlap among the three is quite
extensive, but each has entries not found in the others.
AUTHOR Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
TITLE The Oxford companion to English literature.
EDITION 5th ed. / edited by Margaret Drabble.
PUBLISHER Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Leyburn-Reference PR19 .D73 1985
(An alphabetical catalog of persons real and fictional, titles, and topics
likely to be encountered by a reader of literature.In the Preface, editor
Margaret Drabble states the objective of the Companion to "quickly, easily,
and clearly satisfy the immediate curiosity of the common reader, and direct
that reader, where appropriate, to further sources of information".)
TITLE The Cambridge guide to English literature / [compiled by] Michael
Stapleton.
PUBLISHER Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University
Press ; Feltham, Middlesex : Newnes Books ; Rushden, Northants
: distributed for them by Hamlyn Pub. Group, 1983.
Leyburn-Reference PR85 .C28 1983
(Considerable overlap with The Oxford Companion)
TITLE The Cambridge guide to literature in English / edited by Ian
Ousby ; foreword by Margaret Atwood.
PUBLISHER Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge
University Press ; Twickenham, Middlesex : Hamlyn Pub. Group,
1988.
Leyburn-Reference PR85 .C29 1988
TITLE The Feminist companion to literature in English : women writers
from the Middle Ages to the present / [editors], Virginia Blain
, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy.
PUBLISHER New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1990.
Leyburn-Reference PR113 .F45 1990
TITLE Reference guide to American literature / introductions by Lewis
Leary and Warren French ; editor, D.L. Kirkpatrick.
EDITION 2nd ed.
PUBLISHER Chicago : St. James Press, 1987.
Leyburn-Reference PS129 .R44 1987
(Nearly 600 pages of short biographical sketches [with bibliography of
publications and critical studies], a further 100 pages of short essays
on important works, and a chronology matching publication dates with
historical events)
The most important guides to scholarly research in literature:
TITLE The Year's work in English studies.
PUBLISHER London : Published for the English Association by John Murray
PE58 .E6 Leyburn Library
LIB. HAS: 1(1919/20)- (Latest edition in Reference)
TITLE MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the
modern languages and literatures.
EDITION Library ed.
PUBLISHER New York : Modern Language Association of America, c1970-
REF. INDEXES Leyburn Library
LIB. HAS: 1969-1992