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eReference - Key Titles for Literature

Oxford Reference Online - Literature
Search the entire literature subset or choose one of the 17 different titles such as:

• Oxford Companions to Australian, British, American, Canadian, Classical, Afro-American, Irish and New Zealand literatures
• Oxford Companion to English Literature
• Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare

Credo - Literature
Search the entire literature subset or choose from among 23 titles such as:

• Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
• Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English
• Cambridge Guide to Children's Books In English

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Feminism in Literature: a Gale Critical Companion
  This six-volume set explores the history of women and feminism through literature, from classical antinquity to modern times. There is also a link to the title from the Library Catalogue.

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection

• More in depth treatment that the Oxford Companions
• Subjects include Byron, British romanticism, the Brontes, Camus, Dickens, Chaucer, Chekhov, English literature for various periods, feminist literary theory, English poetry, Gothic fiction, Goethe, Hemingway, Thoreau, Melville, Joyce, Auden, Conrad, Kafta, Keats, Twain, Shelley, Wollstonecraft, medieval women's writing and postcolonial literary studies.

Blackwell Reference Online
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