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Literature
ARBAonline Authentication Required
Reviews print and electronic reference works published since 1997. The reviews are "written by librarians for librarians." AKA American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline's reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas. Updated monthly.

Book Review Index Online Plus Authentication Required
Includes more than five million review citations from over 5,800 books and periodicals, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews; Please note: Our BRI license allows for five (5) U of MN - TC users at a time -- if you are denied access, please wait a few minutes and try again.
• Location(s): Print version available at Wilson Reference Z1035 .A1 B6
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Contemporary Authors Authentication Required
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 100,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. Please note: our license only allows for one simultaneous user. If you are denied access please try again later.
• Location(s): Also owned in print in Wilson Library's Reference Collection Z1224 .C65x
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English Short Title Catalogue
Lists over 450,000 items, mainly in Britain and North America, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. http://www.oclc.org/services/reference/rlg/default.htm"

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The Authentication Required
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism provides 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography with extensive cross-referencing with hyperlinks.
• Location(s): Wilson Library Reference PN81 .J554 2005 Non-Circulating
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LitFINDER Authentication Required
LitFINDER provides either the full text or a citation to a print source in which to read any of 125,000 poems, 5000 stories, 2800 essays, 1000 plays, and 1800 speeches, with new material added regularly. You can search by many ways, including author, subjects, nationality, and time period.

Oxford English Dictionary Authentication Required
Full-text of the 2nd ed. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. Also available in print.
• Location(s): WILSON Reference Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: WALTER Reference Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: MAGRATH Reference (Legal) Folio PE1625 .O87 1989 vol. 1-20
Location: BIOMED Reference oversize PE1625 .O98 1989 vol. 1-20
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Oxford Reference Online Authentication Required
This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Authentication Required
Cumulating the annual bibliographies in Shakespeare Quarterly, this database lists books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1964 and early 2005. The scope is international, including more than 118 languages from around the world. The 102,200 records also cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. Search by author, title, subject, keyword, phrase, date, language, publisher, and/or periodical title.

AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web

Book Spot

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Internet Public Library Literature Reference

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection, The
Directs you to websites for criticism and biographical information about writers.

Poetry Archives, The
The Archives contain over 3600 full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from 140 poets, searchable by author, title, and first line. For a browsable list of authors included in the database, see Poet List.

Quoteworld.org
A collection of close to 14,000 quotations that can be searched by title, author, quote, or exact words. Also included is a discussion forum.

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