Print Reference Works
The Gumberg Library provides a wide array of reference works dealing with literary topics, including biographical information on authors, materials on genres and themes in literature, world literature surveys, as well as critical materials. We offer works in both print and electronic formats, in some cases the same work in both formats. Below are listed a small portion of the major print reference sets in literary studies.
Many of the print reference works must be used in the library, but some can be borrowed. Those listed below must all be used in the library.
A search in the QuickSearch online catalog will locate the many other individual reference works and sets available.
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, 3rd Edition. Call number: PR85 .C29 2006, 2nd floor
Critical Survey of Drama, 2nd Revised Edition. Call number: PN1625 .C68 2003, 2nd floor
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, English Language Series. Call number: PN3451 .C7, 2nd floor
Critical Survey of Poetry, English Language Series. Call number: PN1021 .C85 1985, 2nd floor
Critical Survey of Poetry, Foreign Language Series. Call number: PN1021 .C7 1984, 2nd floor
Masterplots, Revised 2nd Edition. Call number: PN44 .M33 1996, 2nd floor
Masterplots II, American Fiction Series. Call number: PS373 .M37 2000, 2nd floor
More Print Reference Works
Masterplots II, Drama Series. Call number: PN6112.5 .M37 1990, 2nd floor
Masterplots II, World Fiction Series. Call number: PN3326 .M28 1987, 2nd floor
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Call number: PN1021 .E5 1993x, 2nd floor
Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Call number: PS153 .N5 O96 1997, 4th floor
Oxford Companion to American Literature, 6th Edition. Call number: PS21 .H3 1995, 2nd floor
Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th Edition. Call number: PR19 .O94 2006, 2nd floor
Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Call number: PS147 .O94 1995
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (OED). PE1625 .N53 1989x, 1st floor, Oversize Books
Reference Works on Literary Theory
Encyclopedia of Literary & Cultural Theory, Call number: PN81 E435 2011, 1st floor (Phenomonology Center)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, Call number: PN212 R68 2005, 2nd floor
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, Call number: PN98 W64 E53 1997, 2nd floor
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms, Call number: PN81 E43 1993, 2nd floor
Alfred Lord Tennyson
