English 200: English 200 & Other Literature Classes

Selected Resources for English Classes

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Authors (Last name, first name, dates) and individual works are can be listed as subject headings.: Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.; Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
Many subjects can take the add-on "in literature":: Detectives in literature.; Music in literature
Also, many subject headings use a subdivision for criticism:: --History and criticism [for inanimate subects]; --Criticism and interpretation [for authors]; e.g. Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ywain (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism.

PN    General literature 
PR    English literature
PS    American literature

General (Poetry): Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012.

Companions to literature - published by Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge, and others, e.g.:: The Cambridge companion to the Beats — Main Stacks PS228.B6 C35 2017; The Routledge companion to Native American literature — Main Stacks PS153.I52 R68 2016; A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture — Main Stacks PR851 .C57 2005

Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Short author biographies with particular attention to the interplay of their life events and their work as authors.
New York Times - Historical File (1851-1999): Full text of the New York Times from the very beginning. Useful for contemporary accounts of late-nineteenth and twentieth century authors (especially, but not exclusively, U.S. authors). Look here for reviews, interviews and news stories on authors.
For contemporary authors only: Nexis Uni.: Lexis-Nexis includes the fulltext of many newspapers going back to about 1982. Search in the "News >> General News" and "News >> Arts & Sports" sections for your author.
American National Biography: Biographies of dead Americans, primarily those who have died since 1980. For earlier entries, see the Dictionary of American Biography Ref. E176 .D563

MLA Bibliography (1963- ) (Remote Access)	Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over journals and series published worldwide.

Academic Search Complete	Indexes about 2000 periodicals -- both scholarly journals and popular magazines; covers 1986-Present, with some fulltext coverage starting in the early 1990s.

See our online list of Journals the Library Has: EZRA, the library catalog: EZRA
At other Ohio academic libraries:: OhioLINK Central Catalog (Note: you cannot usually get periodicals through OhioLINK)

Compiled by Ken Irwin, kirwin@wittenberg.edu.