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Dictionaries/Encyclopedias - In Print
Dictionary of American Literary Characters by Call Number: URI Ref PS374 .C43 D5 2002ISBN: 0816042624Publication Date: 2001Entries on characters from selected novels published between 1789 and 2000.
2 vols.
Encyclopedia of American Literature by Call Number: URI Ref PS21 .E533 2008ISBN: 97808160647624 vols.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information about American authors from 1946 to the present, as well as information on key works and topics that influenced American literature during the time.
Encyclopedia of the Novel by Call Number: URI Ref PN41 .E487 1998ISBN: 1579580157Publication Date: 1998Encyclopedia with a focus on the history and nature of the novel. Includes entries on novelists.
2 vols.
Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature by Call Number: URI Ref PR19 .E53 2011ISBN: 97808160716163 vols.
Offers a survey of literary themes and a collection of in-depth analyses of how these themes operate in individual literary works. Part I contains essays on 50 prominent literary themes. Part II contains essays on specific themes in more than 300 individual classic works of literature.
Magill's Survey of American Literature by Call Number: URI Ref PS21 M34 2007ISBN: 15876528546 vols.
Offers profiles of major U.S. and Canadian authors of fiction, drama and poetry, each with sections on biography, general analysis and analysis of the author's most important works.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature by Call Number: Ref PS21 .E537 2004ISBN: 01951565364 vols.
Comprehensive encyclopedia of American literature from colonial times to present. Entries include bibliographies.
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias - Online
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0195047710Contains over 2,000 entries, including brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781414431390Publication Date: 2009-07-01Covers American authors from many periods and genres, building a broad understanding of the various contexts - from the biographical to the literary to the historical - in which literature can be viewed.
