Reference Books
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 1996
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
REF PN41.M42 1995
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
REF PN44.5.Q56 2006b
The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
REF PN471.B57 1992
The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature
REF PN849.G74 A9 1981
Poetry Criticism
REF PN1010.P499
Oxford Companion to English Literature
REF PR19.D73 1985
The Cambridge History of English Literature
REF PR83.C224
British Writers
REF PR85.B688
British Authors Before 1800
REF PR105.K9
British Authors of the Nineteenth Century
REF PR105.K9
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers
REF PR111.B75 1989
Modern British Literature
REF PR473.T4 1966
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: 18th and19th Century
REF PR830.C47 D5 1993
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: 20th Century
REF PR888.C47 D53 1994
The Annotated Shakespeare
REF PR2754.R67 1978
Concordance to Shakespeare
REF PR2892.B34 1966
Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: a Comprehensive Guide for Students
REF PR2976.G739 2005
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Books and Authors
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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
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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
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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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