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Web Resources: Literature

Internet Public Library collection on literature and literary criticism
A Literary Index, from Vanderbilt University
American and English Literature Internet Resources, from the librarians at Southern CT State Univ.
Voice of the Shuttle, a wide-ranging humanities collection from a professor at UC Santa Barbara
Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
Contemporary Writers in the UK from the British Council, biographies & some critical notes

Web Resources: Specifics

Jane Austen, not as scholarly as other sites, but comprehensive
Maryse Condé, from Howard Univ.
Marcel Proust
Russian Literature, a page of reasonably reliable links
Nadine Gordimer
Leon Trotsky
William Shakespeare
Women writers
Latin American authors
Caribbean literature resources
French Literature/Litérature Française
PostColonial and PostImperialism Literature:, from the University of Singapore

Library Materials

To locate books on Literature, you will need to use the Franklin College catalog.
To find general books on literary criticism, look under Literature--History and criticism.

To find books on a certain author, search on that person's last name, or that general area, as a subject, for example:
Proust, Marcel--1871-1922--Critique et Interpretation or French Fiction--20th century--History and Criticism, etc.

Selected reference books in the Franklin Library; there are many more not noted here, and more in the circulating collection

American writers in Paris, 1920-1939, call # REF 810.90052 Am3
British authors of the 19th century, call # REF 928.2 K96n
Cassell's encyclopedia of world literature, call # REF 803 >
The concise Cambridge history of English literature, 3e, call # REF 820.9 Sa4
Contemporary literary criticism. This is the long series of brown books on the white shelves to the right of the main desk. The yearbook series of author's biographies and criticism starts in 1973 and goes to the present. Call # REF 809.04 C76
Crowell's handbook of classical literature, call # REF 880.3 C88h
A dictionary of literary terms, call # REF 803 C89d
A dictionary of world literary terms, forms, technique, criticism, call # REF 803 Sh6
European authors, 1000-1900: a biographical dictionary of European literature, call # REF 920.03 K96
Greek and Latin authors, 800 B.C. -A.D. 1000, call # REF 880.9 G76
A guide to modern world literature, call # REF 809 Se9
Harper handbook to literature, call # REF 802.02 H23h
Masterpieces of world literature in digest form, call # REF 808.8 M27
Reference guide to American literature, call # REF 810.321 R25
Twentieth century authors: a biographical dictionary of modern literature, call # REF 809.04 K96
World authors, 1970-1975, call # REF 809.04 W89

New Work

Professor Floyd Parsons publishes Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain

New Work

Professor Joshua Long publishes Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas