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English Literature:
British Literature

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on British literature. Please also see the guide for World Authors.

Background Information Sources

Available in the Library's reference area:

Contemporary Authors	REF PN 451 .C66
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe	REF PN 471 .W565 1997
Contemporary Literary Criticism	REF PN 771 .C59
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism	REF PN 771 .G27
Oxford Companion to English Literature	REF PR 19 .D73 2000
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (5 v.)	REF PR 19 .O95 2006
British Writers	REF PR 85 .B688
Cambridge Guide to English Literature	REF PR 85 .C28 1983
An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers	REF PR 111 .S34 1988
A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern British Literature	REF PR 473 .T4
Shakespeare's World and Works	REF PR 2892 .S56 2001
The Jane Austen Companion	REF PR 4036 .J35 1986
Charles Dickens Encyclopedia	REF PR 4595 .H28 1973
Virginia Woolf A to Z	REF PR 6045 .O72 Z729 1995

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below.

authors by name
authors British
authors English

Title of specific work
[Title of Work] criticism
British literature
English literature

Literature Great Britain
[Author name] criticism

Or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers PN (literature, general) and PR (English literature).

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

General Reference Center Gold/InfoTrac: reviews, newspaper articles, and reference info
Biography Resource Center/InfoTrac: extensive full-text, in-depth biographies
Contemporary Literary Criticism/InfoTrac: critical essays about contemporary authors
LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles

Internet Resources

Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available on Web Resources page; follow link for Literature and Poetry.