Literary Criticism Subject Guide
Indexes and Bibliographies | Critical Excerpts and Evaluations | Literary Encyclopedias and Guides | Dictionaries
INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Academic Search Premier & MasterFILE Premier Online.
Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password. These are multidisciplinary databases that can be searched simultaneously. Many full text articles are available.
Articles on American Literature, 1990 - 1950, in print, call number REF PS 88 .A75x
Articles on American Literature, 1950 - 1967, in print, call number REF PS 88 .A76x
Articles on American Literature, 1968 - 1975, in print, call number REF PS 88 .A77
Bibliography of American Literature in print, call numbers REF PS 88 .B54x, v.1-9
Contemporary Authors Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
Contemporary Authors in print call numbers for volumes 1 - 155: REF PN 451 .C6x.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series volumes 1 - 56: REF PN 461 .C6x n. s.
Current Contents, 1993 - present Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
Essay and General Literature Index, 1900 - present, in print, REF AI 3 .E752
Gale's Literary Index. Online. This resource is available through any Internet access point.
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism.
Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction, 1870 - 1910, in print, call number REF PS 371 .E5x, v. 1 - 2
Index to Criticisms of British and American Poetry in print, call number REF PR 89 .C5
Inter-Play. Online. This resource is available through any Internet access point.
Inter-Play is an index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals, containing more than 17,500 citations to plays in many languages. Inter-Play includes materials from the late 19th century to the present.
JSTOR, online, full text collections that include the humanities. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
Literary Criticism Index by Alan R. Weiner and Spencer Means. REF PH 523 .W42 1994
MagillOnLiterature Plus. Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
MagillOnLiterature Plus is a literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
MLA International Bibliography, 1963 - Present. Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
Project Muse. Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password. Full text collections of the humanities and social sciences.
CRITICAL EXCERPTS AND EVALUATIONS
Contemporary Authors. Online. Available on campus and remotely with a UM-St. Louis SSO ID and password.
Contemporary Authors, in print, call number for volumes 1-155: REF PN 451 .C6x.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volumes 1-56: REF PN 461 .C6x n. s.
Nineteenth-Century Literature. Online journal that covers American and English literature. Access via the Library catalog.
Black Literature Criticism: excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years. REF PS 153 .N5 B556 1992, v.1-2
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC). Excerpts from criticism of creative writers who are now living or who died after January 1,1960. Citations allow access to the complete critical work excerpted. Cumulative index in the last volume. REF PN 771 .C59, c1973 - present. 1-240 - .
Critical Survey of Drama. REF PN 1625 .C68 2003, v. 1 - 8
Critical Survey of Long Fiction. REF PN 3451 .C75 2000, v. 1 - 8
Critical Survey of Poetry. REF PN 1021 .C7 2002, v. 1 - 8, 2nd rev. ed.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction. REF PN 3321 .C7 2001, v. 1 - 7
English Novel Explication: Criticisms to 1972. PR 821.P26x Suppl., v. 1 - 4
Library of Literary Criticism. Ungar and Continuum Publishers. Various call numbers. See the Library Catalog.
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 REF PN 86 .L56, v. 1 - 16
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication. REF PN 3373 .W35x 1977 suppl., v. 1 - 5
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication New Series REF PN 3373 .W353 1993, v. 1-5
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Excerpts from criticism of creative writers who died between 1900 and 1960. A companion to the CLC above.
REF PN 771. G27, v. 1 - 144 - .
LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND GUIDES
Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory. REF PN 94 .C695 2002
Encyclopedia of American Literature REF PS 21 .E53 1999
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms REF PN 81. E43 1993
Encyclopedia of Literary Critics & Criticism REF PN 75.E53 E53 1999, v. 1-2
Guide to American Poetry Explication REF PS 201 .G85 1989, v. 1 - 2
Guide to British Poetry Explication / Nancy C. Martinez and Joseph G.R. Martinez, REF PR 311 .M37 1991, v. 1 - 4
Guide to British Prose Fiction Explication: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / LynnDianne Beene, REF PR 861 .B38 1997
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism REF PN 81 .J554 2005
Literary Research Guide: an Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literature Studies. REF PR 83 .H34 2002
Modern American Literature. REF PS 221 .C8 1969, v. 1 - 4
Modern British Literature REF PR 473 .T4, v. 1 - 5
New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism. REF PR 85 .N39 1985, v. 1 - 11
Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature / Nancy L. Baker and Nancy Huling. REF PR 56 .B34 2006
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism REF PR 85 .R47 1985, v. 1-6
Twentieth-century American Literature REF PS 221 .T834 1985, v. 1 - 8
DICTIONARIES
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. ONLINE via Oxford Reference Online Premium; in print, PR 19 .D732 2003
Handbook to Literature / William Harmon, REF PN 41 .H355 2006
Oxford Companion to American Literature. Online via Oxford Reference Online Premium; in print, PS 21 .H3 1995
Oxford Companion to English Literature. REF PR 19 .O94 2006
Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Online via Oxford Reference Online Premium; in print, PR 8706 .O88 1996
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. ONLINE via Oxford Reference Online Premium; in print, PN 41 .C67 2001.
The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. In print, REF PN41.D4795 2006
Please go to Oxford Reference Online Premium for more dictionaries covering the literature of various languages.