Subject
Research Guides
English Literature:
American Literature
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on American literature.
Background Information Sources
Available in the Library's reference area:
| Contemporary Authors | REF PN 451 .C66 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | REF PN 771 .C59 |
| Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | REF PN 771 .G27 |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (4 v.) | REF PS 21 .E537 2004 |
| Oxford Companion to American Literature | REF PS 21 .H3 1995 |
| Chronology of American Literature | REF PS 94 .C48 2004 |
| American Writers (10 v.) | REF PS 129 .A55 |
| American Women Writers (4 v.) | REF PS 147 .N5 J67 1993 |
| Asian-American Literature | REF PS 153 .A84 A82 1999 |
| Latino and Latina Writers (2 v.) | REF PS 153 .H56 L39 2004 |
| Native American Literatures | REF PS 153 .I52 W47 1999 |
| African-American Writers (2 v.) | REF PS 153 .N5 A344 2001 |
| Oxford Book of American Poetry | REF PS 583 .O82 2006 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below.
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Or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers PN (literature, general) and PS (American literature).
Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text magazine, journal, and newspaper articles.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism/InfoTrac: critical essays about contemporary authors
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles
- Literary Reference Center: Provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
- MLA Bibliography: A literature database offering detailed bibliographies of journal articles, books and dissertations from the Modern Language Association (MLA). Coverage is international and dates back to the 1920s.
Internet Resources
Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available on Web Resources page; follow link for Literature and Poetry.
- DMOZ Open Directory Project: American literature
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/
-provides links to various web resources. - U.S. Department of State: Outline of American Literature
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm
-History of American Literature written by a professor of English.