Literary Terms and Literary Theory
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new windowA database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
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Key Concepts in Literary Theory
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016This book provides students with lucid and authoritative definitions of some of the most significant terms and concepts employed in the study of literary theory. It offers 250 terms from many areas of literary theory, including cultural studies, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, Marxist and feminist studies, postcolonialism, and other areas of identity politics. -
A Companion to Literary Theory
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. -
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2012With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon's indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. New material is particularly focused in areas such as gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cultural studies. -
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
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Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
A complete version of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989) with onlines updates added four times a year since 2000.
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowPublished by Oxford University Press, it is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database containing dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works.
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Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)Annotated list of links to humanities-related internet sources
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Cambridge Companions present collections of essays written by leading experts in the field on themes, subjects, and key figures in three broad areas: Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion, and Culture; and Music.
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2025The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Individual chapters examine how US literature from this period engaged with broad political concepts and urgent political issues, such as liberalism, conservatism, radicalism, nationalism, communitarianism, sovereignty, religious liberty, partisanship and factionalism, slavery, segregation, immigration, territorial disputes, voting rights, gendered spheres, and urban/rural tensions. -
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2009The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. -
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2006The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Biographical Sources
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Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
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Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biography In Context offers biographical information about historically significant figures as well as present-day newsmakers. It includes reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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American National Biography Online This link opens in a new windowBiographical dictionary of notable deceased Americans from all eras of American history. Includes illustrations and links to other web resources.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of notable figures from British history who have shaped the culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. Does not include living people or those recently deceased. Limited to one (1) concurrent user.
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Dizionario biografico degli Italiani This link opens in a new windowBiographical dictionary of Italians who have contributed to the artistic, historic, political, scientific, religious, literary, and economic life of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present.
