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Biographical Resources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Collections and Guides

• Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature
  • Ref PN 41 B4 1996
• Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs                         
  • Ref PN 43 D48
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
  • Ref PN 41 C67
• Dent Dictionary of Fictional Characters
  • Ref PN 56.4 S495
• Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Ref PN41 H36
• Dictionary of Critical Theory
  • Ref PN 98 S6 O77
• Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature
  • Ref PN 849 C3 E53 2006
• Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism
  • Ref PN 86 E63
• Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
  • Ref PN 669 R88 2006
• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
  • Ref PN 771 E5 
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
  • Ref PN 81 E43
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature
  • Ref PS 153 M56 G74 2005
• Magill’s Literary Annual                                                                                                         
  • Ref PN 44 M32
• Masterplots 1:  801 Plot Stories and Critical Evaluations
  • Ref PN 44 M33
• 20th Century Literary Movements Dictionary
  • Ref PN 597 T94 2000