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Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge
history of American literature. 8 vols. Cambridge ; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
810.9 B48c
Figueredo, D. H., ed. Encyclopedia of
Caribbean literature. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 2006.
General Arts Reference 809.89729 F47
Harman, William. A handbook to
literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
General Arts Reference 803 H74
Klarer, Mario. Introduction to literary
studies. London ; New York: Routledge, 2004.
820.9 K634
Littlewood, Ian. The literature
students' survival kit : what every reader needs to know. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2006.
General Arts Reference 809.891821 L78
Matterson, Stephen. American
literature : the essential glossary. London: Arnold, 2003.
General Arts Reference 810.3 M43
Ostrom, Hans A, and J. David Macey, eds. The
Greenwood encyclopedia of African American literature. 5 vols.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.
General Arts Reference 810.9896073 O85
Padley, Steve. Key concepts in
contemporary literature. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Rec'd 17/07/06 - check Voyager for call number
Sturm, T. ed. The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English. 2nd ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.
NZ & P 820.9 O98n
General Arts Reference 820.9 O98n
Robinson, Roger, and Nelson Wattie, eds. The Oxford companion to New Zealand literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.
NZ & P 820.9 O98c
NZ & P Quick Reference 820.9 O98c
Parini, Jay, ed. Encyclopedia of American literature. 4 vols. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
General Arts Reference 810.3 P23
Hendin, Josephine, G., ed. Concise companion to
postwar American literature and culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
810.90054 H49
Table
of Contents
Serafin, Stephen R., ed. The Continuum encyclopedia of American literature. New York: Continuum, 1999.
General Arts Reference 810.3 S84
Literary Terms
Barton, Edwin J. A
contemporary guide to literary terms : with strategies for writing essays
about literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
General Arts Reference 801.95 B29
Childs, Peter, and Roger
Fowler, eds. Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London:
Routledge, 2006.
General Arts Reference 801.903 F78
Cuddon, J. A. A dictionary
of literary terms and literary theory. 4th ed. revised by C.E.
Preston. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
General Arts Reference 803 C96 1998
Ferber, Michael. A
dictionary of literary symbols. Cambridge, England ; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
General Arts Reference 809.915 F34
Kennedy, X. J., Dana Gioia,
and Mark Bauerlein. The Longman dictionary of literary terms :
vocabulary for the informed reader. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.
General Arts Reference 808.03 L28
Lanham, Richard A. A
handlist of rhetorical terms. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1991.
General Arts Reference 808.03 L28
Myers, Jack Elliot, and Don
Charles Wukasch. Dictionary of poetic terms. Denton, Tex.:
University of North Texas, 2003.
General Arts Reference 808.1 M99
Simpson, Paul. Stylistics :
a resource book for students. London ; New York: Routledge, 2004.
808 S61
Table
of Contents
Turco, Lewis. The book of
literary terms : the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary
criticism, and scholarship. Hanover, NH: University Press of New
England, 1999.
General Arts Reference 803 T93
Literary Theory
& Criticism
Bal, Mieke, ed. Narrative theory :
critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. London ;
New York : Routledge, 2004.
808.3014 B17
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle. An
introduction to literature, criticism and theory. New York: Pearson
Longman, 2004.
801.95 B471
Benson, Eugene, and Leonard Connolly, eds. Encyclopedia
of postcolonial literatures in English. 3 vols. London : Routledge,
2005.
General Arts Reference 820.3 B47
Bomarito, Jessica, and Jeffrey W. Hunter,
eds. Feminism in literature : a Gale critical companion. 6 vols.
Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
General Arts Reference 809.89287 G16
Brydon, Diana, ed. Postcolonialism :
critical concepts in literary and cultural criticism. 5 vols. London
; New York: Routledge, 2000.
325. 3 B91
Cuddon, J. A. A dictionary of literary
terms and literary theory. 4th ed. revised by C.E. Preston. Oxford, UK
; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
General Arts Reference 803 C96 1998
Culler, Jonathan D., ed. Deconstruction
: critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. London
; New York: Routledge, 2003.
801.95 C96d
Evans, Mary, ed. Feminism : critical
concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. New York:
Routledge, 2001.
305.4201 E92
Hawley, John C., ed. Encyclopedia of
postcolonial studies. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
General Arts Reference 809.891724 H39
Hawthorn, Jeremy. A glossary of
contemporary literary theory. London: Arnold ; New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
General Arts Reference 803 H39g
Herman, David, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure
Ryan, eds. Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory. London ; New
York: Routledge, 2004.
General Arts Reference 808.003 H55
Lazarus, Neil, ed. The Cambridge
companion to postcolonial literary studies. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
809.93358 L431
Table
of Contents
Middleton, Tim, ed. Modernism :
critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 5 vols. New
York: Routledge, 2003.
820.9112 M62
Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowitz,
eds. A companion to narrative theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
808 P53
Poddar, Prem, and David Johnson, eds. A
historical companion to postcolonial literatures in English. Edinburgh
: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
General Arts Reference 820.9 P74
Prince, Gerald. A dictionary of
narratology. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press ; Chesham:
Combined Academic, 2003.
General Arts Reference 809.3 P95
Whitson, Kathy J. Encyclopedia of
feminist literature. Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
General Arts Reference 809.8928703 W62
Taylor, Victor E., and Charles E. Winquist,
eds. Postmodernism : critical concepts. 4 vols. London ; New York:
Routledge, 1998.
149.97 T24
Literary
Periods
Castillo, Susan P., and Ivy Schweitzer,
eds. A companion to the literatures of colonial America. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2005.
810.9001 C35
Table
of Contents
Coredon, Christopher, ed. A dictionary
of medieval terms and phrases. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester,
NY: D.S. Brewer, 2004.
General Arts Reference 909.07014 C78
Dalrymple, Roger, ed. Middle English
literature : a guide to criticism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
820.9001 D15
Table
of Contents
Davenport, W. A. Medieval narrative : an
introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
809.02 D24
Donker, Marjorie. Dictionary of
literary-rhetorical conventions of the English Renaissance. Wesport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
821.309 D68
Duncan, Thomas, G., ed. A companion to
the Middle English lyric. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2005.
821.109 D91
Hattaway, Michael, ed. A companion to
renaissance literature and culture. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2001.
820.9003 H36
__________________. Renaissance and
reformations : an introduction to early modern English literature. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2005.
820.9003 H36r
Goldie, Matthew Boyd, ed. Middle English
literature : an historical sourcebook. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
820.9001 G61
Keeran, Peggy, and Jennifer Bowers. Literary
research and the British Romantic era : strategies and sources. Lanham,
Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Received 11/05/06 - check Voyager for availability
Krueger, Roberta L., ed. The Cambridge
companion to medieval romance. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2000.
808.02 K94
Lambdin, Laura Cooner, and Robert Thomas
Lambdin, eds. A companion to Old and Middle English literature. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
829.09 L21
Loewenstein, David, and Janel M. Mueller,
eds. The
Cambridge history of early modern English literature. Cambridge,
UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
820.9003 L82
Table
of Contents
McHale, Brian, and Randall Stevenson, eds. The
Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century literatures in English. Edinburgh,
Edinburgh University Press: 2006.
On order 15/08/2006 - check Voyager for availability
Marcus, Laura, and Peter Nicholls, eds. The
Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature. Cambridge ;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
820.90091 M32
O'Neill, Michael, and Mark Sandy, eds. Romanticism
: critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. New
York: Routledge, 2005.
809.9145 O58
Pulsiano, Phillip, and Elaine M. Traherne,
eds. A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2001.
829.09 P98
Purchase, Sean. Key concepts in
Victorian literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006.
820.9009 P98
Richetti, John J., ed. The Cambridge
history of English literature, 1660-1780. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
820.9005 R52
Ruud, Jay. Encyclopedia of medieval
literature. New York : Facts On File, 2006.
General Arts Reference 809.02 R98
Samuels, Shirley, ed. A companion to
American fiction, 1780-1865. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
813.209 S19
Table
of Contents
Scott-Warren, Jason. Early modern
English literature. Cambridge ; Malden, MA: Polity, 2005.
820.9003 S42
Sutherland, John. Victorian fiction :
writers, publishers, readers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Copy received 01/05/06 - check Voyager for availability
Wallace, David, ed. The Cambridge
history of medieval English literature. Cambridge ; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
820.9001 W18
Wu, Duncan, ed. A companion to
Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
820.9007 W95
Literary
Movements
Botting, Fred, and Dale Townshend, eds. Gothic
: critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. 4 vols. London
; New York: Routledge, 2004.
809.3 B74
Table of Contents
Bradshaw, David, ed. A concise companion
to modernism. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003.
820.9112 B81
Hogle, Jerrold, E., ed. Cambridge
companion to gothic fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2002.
823.0872909 H71
Table
of Contents
Bradshaw, David, and Kevin J. Dettmar, eds.
A companion to modernist literature and culture. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Pub., 2005.
820.9112 B81c
Table
of Contents
Poplawski, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of
literary modernism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
General Arts Reference 809.9112 P82
Punter, David, and Glennis Byron. The
Gothic. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
823.0872909 P98go
Table
of Contents
Women
Aston, Elaine, and Janelle Reinelt, eds. The
Cambridge companion to modern women playwrights. Cambridge, UK ; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
822.91099287 A82
Dowson, Jane, and Alice Entwistle. A
history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
821.91099287 D75
Table
of Contents
Hammill, Faye, Esme Miskimmin, and Ashlie
Sponenberg, eds. Encyclopedia of British women's writing, 1900-1950. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
820.99287 H22
Jordan, Kasper LeRoy. A bibliographic
guide to African-American women writers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1993.
810.8 J82S [not to be borrowed]
Makinen, Merja. Feminist popular
fiction. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
823.914099287 M23
Pacheco, Anita, ed. A companion to Early
Modern women's writing. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
820.99287 P11c
Peterson, Jane T. Women playwrights of
diversity : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1997.
General Arts Reference 812.54099287 P48
Robinson, Lillian S., ed. Modern women
writers. 4 vols. New York: Continuum, 1996.
General Arts Reference 809.89287 R66
Fiction
Baker, William, and Kenneth Womack, eds. A
companion to the Victorian novel. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
2002.
823.809 B16
Table
of Contents
Childs, Peter, ed. Contemporary
novelists : British fiction since 1970. Houndmills, Basingstoke,
Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
823.91409 C53
Head, Dominic. Cambridge introduction to
modern British fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
823.91409 H43
James, Louis, ed. The Victorian novel. Oxford,
UK ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006.
823.809145 J27
Table
of Contents
O'Gorman, Francis, ed. A concise
companion to the Victorian novel. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005.
823.809 O35v
Table
of Contents
Schellinger, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia
of the novel. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
General Arts Reference 809.3003 S32
Shaffer, Brian W., ed. A companion to
the British and Irish novel 1945-2000. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
823.91409 S52
Table
of Contents
Drama
Braunmuller, A.R., and Michael Hattaway,
eds. Cambridge companion to English renaissance drama. Cambridge,
UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
822.309 C17 2003
Table
of Contents
Bushnell, Rebecca, ed. A companion to
tragedy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
809.2512 B97
Table
of Contents
Cassell companion to theatre. London
: Cassell, 1999.
General Arts Reference 792.03 C34
Chambers, Colin. The Continuum companion
to twentieth century theatre. London: Continuum, 2002.
General Arts Reference 792.03 C444
Dessem, Allen C. A dictionary of stage
directions in English drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
General Arts Reference 822.3003 D47
Harrison Martin. The language of
theatre. Manchester: Carcenet, 1998.
General Arts Reference 792.03 H29
Hawkins-Dady, Mark, ed. International
dictionary of theatre. 3 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, 1996.
General Arts Reference 792.03 I61
Innes, C. D. Modern British drama : the
twentieth century. Cambridge, UK ; New York ; Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
822.9109 I58m
Kinney, Arthur F., ed. A
companion to Renaissance drama. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers,
2002.
822.309 K59
Krasner, David, ed. A companion to
twentieth-century American drama. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
812.509 K89
McRae, Andrew. Renaissance drama. London:
Arnold, 2003.
822.309 M17
Milling, Jane, et al, eds. The Cambridge
history of British theatre. 3 vols. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
792.0941 C17
Mobley, Jonnie Patricia. NTC's
dictionary of theatre and drama terms. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Pub.
Group, 1998.
General Arts Reference 792.03 M68
Owen, Susan J., ed. A companion to
Restoration drama. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
822.409 O98c
Pavis, Patrice. Dictionary of the
theatre : terms, concepts, and analysis. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1998.
General Arts Reference 792.03 P33Y
Richards, Shaun, ed. The Cambridge
companion to twentieth-century Irish drama. Cambridge, UK ; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
822.91099417 R48
Table
of Contents
Rollyson, Carl, ed. Critical survey of
drama. 8 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003.
General Arts Reference 809.2003 M19 2003
Rubin, Don, et al, eds. The World
encyclopedia of contemporary theatre. 6 vols. London ; New York:
Routledge, 2000.
General Arts Reference 792.03 R89
Sternlicht, Stanford V. A reader's guide
to modern American drama. Syracause, N.Y.: Syracause University Press,
2002.
812.509 S83
White, R. Kerry. An annotated dictionary
of technical, historical, and stylistic terms relating to theatre and
drama : a handbook of dramaturgy. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1995.
General Arts Reference 792.03 W58
Wilmeth, Don B., and C. W. E. Bigsby, eds. The
Cambridge history of American theatre. 3 vols. Cambridge, UK ;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998-2000.
792.0973 W744
Poetry
Cronin, Richard, Alison Chapman, and Antony
H. Harrison, eds. A
companion to Victorian poetry. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2002.
821.809 C94
Fredman, Stephen, ed. A concise
companion to twentieth-century American poetry. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
2005.
811.509 F85c
Table
of Contents
Haralson, Eric L., ed. Encyclopedia of
American poetry. The 20th century. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
General Arts Reference 811.509 H25
_________________. Encyclopedia
of American poetry. The nineteenth century. Cambridge: ProQuest
Information and Learning, 2000.
Lennard, John. The poetry handbook : a
guide to reading poetry for pleasure and practical criticism. Oxford ;
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
808.1 L56
Table
of Contents
McGowan, Christopher. Twentieth-century
American poetry. Maldon, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
811.509 M146
Table
of Contents
Parini, Jay, ed. The Columbia history of
American poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
811.09 C71
Preminger, Alex, and T. V. F. Brogan, eds. The
New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1993.
General Arts Reference 809.103 E56
Roberts, Neil. A companion to
twentieth-century poetry. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
821.9109 R64
Smith, Eric. A dictionary of classical
reference in English poetry. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer ;
Totowa, NJ. : Barnes & Noble, 1984
General Arts Reference 821.003 S64
Writing & Rhetoric
Booker, M. Keith, ed. Encyclopedia of
literature and politics : censorship, revolution, and writing. 3 vols.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
General Arts Reference 809.9335803 B72
Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of
rhetoric and composition : communication from ancient times to the
information age. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.
808.003 E59
Hart, Roderick P., and Susanne M. Daughton.
Modern rhetorical criticism. Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon,
2005.
808 H32
Jost, Walter, and Wendy Olmsted, eds. A
companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
2004.
808.042 J84
Table
of Contents
Moran, Michael G., and Michelle Ballif,
eds. Twentieth-century rhetorics and rhetoricians : critical studies
and sources. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
General Arts Reference 808.00904 M8
Sloane, Thomas O., ed. Encyclopedia of
rhetoric. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
General Arts Reference 808.003 S63
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