Skip to Main Content

Literary Studies

Selected resources for research in literary studies

Online Reference

Reference web resources:

American Writers
(Now a part of "Scribner Writers Online"--look in left column for volumes)
American Poets
American Women Writers
British, Irish & Commonweath Poets
British Writers
(Now a part of "Scribner Writers Online"--look in right column for volumes)
The Columbia History of British Poetry
Contemporary Novelists
Contemporary Poets
Credo Reference
Dictionary of Critical Theory
Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
Dictionary of Shakespeare
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Literature of War
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics
Oxford Companion to Chaucer
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000
Oxford Reference Online

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0