Reference Books
Journals in Print
Online Databases
Websites
The following us a sample of reference materials available at the Quincy College libraries. Use these books to begin your research and as an overview and introduction to your topic. Please check the online catalog for locations and further bibliographic information. Reference materials cannot be removed from the premises.
A Handbook to Literature
REF PN41.H355 2003
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
REF PN41.M42 1995
Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, American Fiction Series
REF PN44.M32
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
REF PN44.5.Q56 2006b
A History of Literary Criticism
REF PN86.H23 2005
Great Women Writers
REF PN471.G74 1994
Poetry Criticism
REF PN1010.P499
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
REF PS21.H3 1983
Magill's Survey of American Literature
REF PS21.M34 1991
Cyclopedia of American Literature
REF PS85.D7 1965
Columbia Literary History of the United States
REF PS92 .C64 1988
Masterpieces of American Literature
REF PS94.M34 1993
American Women Writers
REF PS147.A4
Masterpieces of African-American Literature
REF PS153.N5 M264 1992
The Columbia History of the American Novel
REF PS371.C7 1991
Dictionary of American Literary Characters
REF PS374 .C43 D5 1990
Major Characters in American Fiction
REF PS374.C43 M35 1996
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
REF PS583.O82 2006
The following is a list of american literature journals available at the Quincy College Libraries. Please check the Online Catalog for locations and holdings. Journals cannot be removed from the premises.
American Literature
Children's Literature in Education
Search for information on your topic using the following online databases:
Books and Authors
Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Literature Resource Center
Information on literary topics, authors and their works. Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
LitFinder
Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Bartleby
A searchable reference site handy for locating literature, poetry, essays, word definitions, and other prose pieces, particularly when trying to locate a whole piece from a line or phrase. It includes sources such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Gray's Anatomy, Oxford Shakespeare, and World Factbook.
Great Literature Online Library
Full-text books and great works of literature by famous authors are available at this site.
ipl2 Library Literary Criticism Collection
The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
The Literature Network
A searchable online literature website for students and educators. It includes over 3,000 full-text books, 4,000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8,500 quotes..
Voice of the Shuttle
A humanities research database run by the University of California, Santa Barbara. Click on Literature.
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