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
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- Title of specific work
- [Title of Work] criticism
- British literature
- English literature
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- Literature Great Britain
- [Author name] criticism
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Or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers PN (literature, general) and PR (English literature).
Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
Internet Resources
Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available on Web Resources page; follow link for Literature and Poetry.