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Essential Resources for Literary Studies
Literary Criticism: How to Find it
African American Experience: Collected Research Guides
African American Writers
American Civil War Cultures
American Modernist Writers
American Women Writers
Black Modernist Poets
Death of a Salesman
Emily Dickinson
T.S Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gothic Fiction
Harlem Renaissance
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Ernest Hemingway
Joy Harjo
The Lost Generation
Thomas Merton
Toni Morrison
Mystery and Detective Fiction
Pittsburgh Poets
Pittsburgh Writers
Sylvia Plath
Researching Mina Loy & Friends
Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Science Fiction
Slave Narratives
Sustainability: Literature & the Environment
To Kill A Mockingbird
Natasha Tretheway
Twentieth Century American Playwrights
Walt Whitman
John Edgar Wideman
August Wilson
Women & the Avant Garde
If You Found This Guide Helpful, Try These!
British Literature: Collected Research Guides
Medieval Topics: Collected Research Guides
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This guide was created by Alivia Austin, English Department Intern, and Ted Bergfelt, Humanities Librarian, September 2023
