Books you can take with you are in this number range: 800 – 899, often with a “z” preceding the call number.
When searching our catalog, use keywords such as:
Author’s first and/or last name and criticism, i.e. Poe and criticism
American Literature and criticism
British Literature and criticism
French Literature and criticism
Poetry and criticism
Drama and criticism
Helpful Reference Books
All Genres |
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| American Writers | R 810.9 A |
| British Writers | R820.9 B |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | R 809 C |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | R 808 D |
| Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century |
R 803 E |
| European Writers | R 809.894 E |
| Fifty Southern Writers Before/After 1900 |
R 810 F |
| Hispanic Literature of the United States | R 810 K |
| Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism |
R 809.034 N |
| Twentieth Century Literary Criticism | R 809.04 T |
Fiction |
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| Masterplots | R 808.8 M |
| Survey of Contemporary Literature | R 808.8 M |
Drama |
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| Critical Survey of Drama | R 808.82 C |
| Masterplots: Drama Series | R 808.8 M |
Poetry |
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| Critical Survey of Poetry | R 821.009 C |
| Encyclopedia of American Poetry | R 811 E |
Electronic Sources (may require library card)
| Contemporary Authors |  |
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| Discovering Collection (Literature) | |
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| Literary Reference Center—Literary criticism, plot summaries, reviews on novels, poetry and shortstories | |
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Magazine and Journal Indexes (may require library card)
| EBSCO | |
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| General Reference Center Gold | |
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| Expanded Academic | |
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| Electric Library | |
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Free Websites
Complete Review
(complete-review.com)
This site is a selective survey of books old and new.
Critical Reading: A Guide
(www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html)
Guides from this site form a useful framework to help beginning students think critically about the literature they are reading.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
(www.ipl.org/div/litcrit)
This site links the user to over 1,000 critical and biographical websites on literary criticism.
Literary Criticism on the Net
(andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlunch/Lit)
This site provides links arranged by time period.
Study Guides for Various Works
(www.wsu.edu/~brians/guides_index.html)
This site is a collection of study guides for a wide range of literature including: works of science fiction; 19th and 20th century European classics; love poetry; world literature in English of India, Africa, and the Caribbean; and the Bible as Literature.
See Also: WHPL Guide for Books/Literature
(www.westhartford.org/library/guide/booksliterature.htm)