English & American Literature (Graduate Guide)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. REFERENCE SOURCES FOR LITERARY RESEARCH

A. Reference Guides
B. Literary Encyclopedia and Other Reference Sources
C. Biographical Sources
D. Bibliographies of Bibliographies
E. Dissertations & Theses

II. LIBRARIES & COLLECTIONS

A. Directions
B. Union Catalogs

A. Directories
B. Manuscript Collection Guides

A. Directories of Currently Published Periodicals
B. Bibliographies & Descriptions of Periodicals
C. Locations of Periodicals

A. Descriptions of Serial Bibliographies
B. Serials Bibliographies on Individual Authors
C. Indexes to Nineteenth Century Periodicals
D. Indexes to Twentieth Century Periodicals
E. Related indexes & Abstracting Services
F. Book Review Sources

A. Poetry
B. Short Fiction
C. Film Studies

VII. ENGLISH LITERATURE (Graduate Guide)

A. Old English Literature ( 500-1100 )
B. Middle English Literature ( 1100-1500 )
C. Renaissance Literature ( 1500- 1660 )
D. Shakespearean Studies
E. Restoration and 18th Century Studies ( 1660- 1800 )
F. Nineteenth Century Literature
G. Twentieth Century English Literature

XI. AMERICAN LITERATURE (Graduate Guide)
A. Literature of Early America
B. Nineteenth Century American Literature
C. Twentieth Century American Literature
D. African American Literature

X. SPECIAL TOPICS

A. Literary Theory
B. Rhetoric & Composition
C. History of the English Language and Linguistics
D. Women & Literature
E. Children's Literature
F. Folklore and Mythology in Literature
G. The Bible as Literature/ The Bible in Literature

XII. RESEARCHING LITERARY CRITICISM ON AN INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR & HIS/HER WORK