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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
• Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

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 antiquity to modern times. There is also a link to the title from the Library Catalogue.

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection

• More in depth treatment than 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
Search the literature subset for in depth treatment of medieval English literature, renaissance, romanticism and Victorian literature, 18th century novels, 20th century poetry, post-war American literature tragedy, the gothic, literature and film, Shakespeare etc.

Literary Reference Center
A database that provides users with information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Print Reference

Check the Reference collection for important titles such as:

• Bibliography of Australian Literature REF 016.82 BIB
• Annals of Australian Literature REF A820.16 HOO
• Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature REF A820.8 MAC
• Oxford Companion to Australian Literature REF A820.9WIL

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