Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
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American National Biography Online This link opens in a new window
Access biographies of individuals from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The portraits reflect the rich diversity of American life from pre-colonial times onwards.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
This series offers biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of authors while placing them in the larger perspective of literary history.
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Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to over 60,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles.
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Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1100-1500
Provides access to three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, bibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on the MED bibliographies, and a corpus of Middle English prose and verse. The three components are interconnected through hypertext links.
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Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to the Oxford English Dictionary online. Includes definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
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Comprehensive Old-English DictionaryPrint. Reference stacks: PE 279 .B48 1982.
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Dictionary of the Older Scottish TongueCovers the 12th century to the end of the 17th century. Print, 4 vols. Reference stacks: PE 2116 .C7.
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Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English DictionaryAn historical thesaurus covering virtually the entire vocabulary of the English language from its beginnings to the present. Print, 2 vols. Reference stacks: PE 1591 .H55 2009.
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Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed.Cover the history, theory, criticism, form, and genres of world poetry. Print. PN 1021 .N39 2012. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
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Scottish National DictionarySubtitled: "designed partly on regional lines and partly on historical principles, and containing all the Scottish words known to be in use or to have been in use since c. 1700." Print, 10 vols. Reference collection: PE 2106 .S4.
Criticism and Theory
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd ed.Print. Reference stacks: PN 81 .J554 2005.
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Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.
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Indexes and Bibliographies
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Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies, 2nd ed.Print. PN 1022 .K38 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
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Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, 10th ed.Indexes poetry in anthologies published through June 3, 1993. Print. PN 1022 .C66 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
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Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, 13th ed.Indexes anthologies published through 2006. Print. PN 1022 .H39 2002. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
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Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, 2nd ed.Print. PN 1022 .C63 2004. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies Online is designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study with citations that link to those sources. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to the following subjects: Atlantic history, biblical studies, Buddhism, classical studies, Hinduism, international relations, Islamic studies, Latin American studies, medieval studies, philosophy, renaissance, and Victorian literature.
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Poetry & Short Story Reference CenterProvides hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, dramatic works, audio recordings, video content, biographies and essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.
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A Reference Guide for English StudiesContains descriptive entries of useful pre-World Wide Web reference material. Print. Bizzell Stacks: PR 56 .M37 1990.
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Research Methods for English StudiesChapters on different methods of literary research, when each might be appropriate, and important practitioners and theorists of each. Print. Bizzell Stacks, PR 56 .R43 2005.
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The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory OnlineProvides a narrative bibliography of work in the field of critical and cultural theory, recording significant debates and issues of interest in a broad field of research in the humanities and social sciences. Covers 1991 to the present.
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The Year's Work in English Studies OnlineSelective narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures. The online version has full text back to 1921.