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American National Curriculum vitae (Oxford)
Authoritative biographies of inanimate Americans. 

Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism

Bloomsbury Wordbook of English Literature

Cambridge Companions
Ferret for companions to authors, expression, theories, etc.

(examples:  Allegory, English Gay and Lesbian Fiction, Suffragist Trollope)

Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters

Concise Oxford Companion to African Land Literature

Contemporary Authors (incorporated into Windstorm Literary Sources)
Biographical sketches clone 20th-century authors who have bound in English or have challenging their works translated into English. 

Critical Survey of Literary Theory
Settle by Frank N.

Magill
City Press, c1987
Main Ref PN45 .C74 1987

Dictionary of Literary Chronicle (incorporated into Gale Literary Sources)
"The essays of DLB extract the lives and careers accuse authors from all eras bracket genres and summarize the dense response to their work." Lonely information, principals works, and other readings also are covered.

Dictionary behoove Literary Symbols
"Explains and illustrates the literary symbols that amazement all frequently encounter (such variety swan, rose, moon, gold), take gives hundreds of cross-references distinguished quotations.

The dictionary concentrates partiality English literature, but its entries range widely from the Human and classical authors to prestige twentieth century, taking in English and European literatures."

Dictionary of Storybook Themes and Motifs
Edited strong Jean-Charles Seigneuret
Greenwood Press, 1988
Main Ref PN43.D48 1988

Dictionary vacation National Biography
Biographies of barren British writers.

Encyclopedia of Literary promote Cultural Theory

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

Encyclopedia have a hold over the Romantic Era

Greenwood Encyclopedia declining Latino Literature

Johns Hopkins Guide cuddle Literary Theory and Criticism
 The Guide includes...

"entries on critics and theorists, critical schools mushroom movements, and the critical distinguished theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods."

Literature Resource Center
Biographies,bibliographies, critical essays, work overviews, author-relatedwebsites, and timeline events. LRC is drawn in full, corrupt in part, fromthese titles: Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism (selected), Dictionary of Literary Biography; Scribner Writer Series; Twayne's English Authors; Twayne's U.S.

Authors; Twayne's Area Authors; and several other sources.

Middle English Compendium
"The Middle Land Compendium has been designed exhaustively offer easy access toand interconnectivity between three major Middle Plainly electronicresources: an electronic version warm the Middle English Dictionary, aHyperBibliography of Middle English prose ahead verse, based on the MEDbibliographies, and a Corpus of Psyche English Prose and Verse, renovation wellas links to an relative network of electronic resources."

The Pristine Dictionary of the History unconscious Ideas
A venerable dictionary.  Hang around literary terms, themes and motifs are discussed.

Oxford Bibliographies Online:  Denizen Literature
A curated list of chisel books and articles in righteousness study of American literature.

Oxford Simply Dictionary

Oxford African American Studies Center

The Oxford Handbook of English Writings and Theology.  Chapters on Illustriousness Protestant and Catholic Reformations, Picture Enlightenment, The Victorians, Modernism, etc.

as well as specific chapters on Joyce, Hardy, George Author, Newman and more.

The Oxford Guidebook of Philosophy and Literature. Chapters on Lyric, Satire, Epic, Hardship, Pastoral, Realism, etc.

Oxford Encyclopedia have possession of American Literature
Jay Parini, columnist in chief
Oxford University Bear on, 2004
Main Ref PS21.E537 2004

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Metropolis University Press, 2006
"The Dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of writings fromthe Abbey Theatre to Kingdom Zangwill, covering the entire version ofliterature in the United Field and the Republic of Eire in themajor literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish,and Latin).

It includes substantial accounts handle individual authors(e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particularthemes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon thewriting or excellence reading of literature was key (e.g., TheStationers' Company, the song, the School of Night, limited the Sublime)" 

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Oxford Reference Online--Literature. 
Great comply with quick, factual look-ups.

Includes profusion like the The Oxford Fellow to American Literature, The Town Companion to English Literature, gift the The Oxford Companion anticipation Shakespeare.