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Literature: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Print Sources

• Dictionary of American Literary Characters (Ref PS374.C43 D5): Significant characters in American literature.
• A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms (Ref PN44.5 .Q56): Guide to major literary and thematic terms and concept.
• Biographical Companion to Literature in English (Ref  PR106 .K35): Dictionary of major English language authors.
• Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Ref BH39 .C62): Guide to contemporary literary criticism.
• Encyclopedia of African-American Literature (Ref PS153.N5 E48): Guide to African-American authors and their works. 
• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Ref PR19 .O95): Guide to British authors and their works.
  
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Ref PS153.M56 G74): Guide to non-white American authors and their works.
  

• English language dictionaries and thesauri. Including abbreviations, acronyms, and an unabridged dictionary.
• Encyclopedias. Including Encyclopedia Britannica online.