Penn State University Libraries - English Literature: Texts and Criticism

General

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• Index to Theses...Great Britain and Ireland
• International Medieval Bibliography
• MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
• Chaucer Bibliography Online
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
• James Joyce Checklist
• Periodicals Index Online
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Web of Science (Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
• Comprehensive index to English-Language little magazines, 1890-1970.
  Z6944.L5S23, Arts and Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection

Surveys of Criticism

• American Literary Scholarship
• The Year's Work in English Studies
• The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

Book Review Sources

• Book Review Index
• ChoiceReviews.online
• TLS Historical Archive
• Book Review Digest, 1905-. Z1219.C96. Arts & Humanities, Pattee,
  Stacks 2 - Reference Collection

Biographical Compilations and Indexes

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  
• Contemporary Authors
  
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  
• American National Biography
  
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  
• Academy of American Poets
  
• American Women Writers
  
• Contemporary Novelists
  
• Contemporary Poets
  

English Language Dictionaries

• The Oxford English Dictionary
  
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary of The English Language Unabridged
  
• Middle English Dictionary
  
• Dictionary of Old English
  
• Dictionary of the Scots Language
  

Dictionaries of Terminology

• Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 9th ed., 2009. PN41.A184 2009. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
  
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. 2nd ed., 2005. PN81.J554 2005. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
  
• Harmon, William. A Handbook to Literature. 10th ed., 2006. PN41.H355 2006. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
  
• Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 4th ed., 1998. PN41.C83 1998. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
  
• The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993. PN1021.N39 1993. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
  

Directories

• MLA Directory of Periodicals
  
• WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders
  
• Directory of Writers
  

Encyclopedias and Companions

• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 6th ed., 1995.
  
• The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 7th ed., 2009.
  
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 2006.
  
• Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literature in English. 2005.

Guides to Archives and Manuscripts

• ArchiveGrid
  
• Archive Finder
  
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
  
• A2A: Access to Archives
  
• Archives Hub
  
• British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
  
• Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors in the British Isles
  
• Index of English Literary Manuscripts. 1980-. Z6611.L7I5. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
  
• Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 1995. Z6611.L7L625 1995. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
  

Histories and Chronologies

• The Chronology of American Literature. 2004. PS94.C48 2004. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
  
• The Cambridge History of American Literature. 1994-. PS92.C34 1994 / Pattee - Stacks 3
  
• The Oxford English Literary History. 2002-. PR85.O96 2002 / Pattee - Stacks 2A
  
• The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. 2002. PR87.O95 2002. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
  

Style Manuals

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online.
  
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed., 2009. LB2369.G53 2009. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
  
• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed., 2008. PN147.G444 2008. Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference