General and Terminology
Andrews, William L. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford, 1997.
Brackett, Virginia. The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17th and 18th Centuries. Facts on File, 2008.
Cox, Michael, ed.The Oxford Chronology of English Literature (2v.). REF PR 87 .O98 2002x
Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner-Martin, ed. The Oxford Companion To Women's Writing in the United States. REF PS 147 .O94 1995
Delahunty, Andrew, Sheila Dignen, and Penny Stock. The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions. REF PE 1580 .D45 2001
Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. REF PR 19 .O94 2006
Groden, Michael, Martin Kreiswirth and Imre Szeman, ed. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. REF PN 81 .J554 2005
Hamilton, Geoff. Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Facts on File, 2009.
Hamilton, Ian. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford, 1994.
Harmon, William. A Handbook to Literature. REF PN 41 .H355 2012
Hart, James D., ed. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. REF PS 21 .H3 1995
Hawthorn, Jeremy. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. REF PN 44.5 .H37 2000
Huang, Guiyou, ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature (3v.). REF PS 153 .A84 G74 2009
Kastan, David Scott, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (5v.). REF PR 19 .O95 2006
McArthur, Tom, ed. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. REF PE 31 .O94 1992y
McClinton-Temple, Jennifer, ed. Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature (3v.). REF PR 19 .E53 2011
Moss, Joyce and George Wilson. Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them (5v.). REF PN 50 .L574 1997
Murfin, Ross C. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. REF PN 44.5 .M86 1997
Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. REF PN 41 .B4 1996
Murray, Chris, ed. Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism (2v.). REF PN 75 .E53 E53 1999
Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (5v.). REF PS 153 .M56 G74 2005
Oh, Seiwoong. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature. Facts on File, 2007.
Ostrom, Hans and J. David Macey, Jr., ed.The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (5v.). REF PS 153 .N5 G73 2005
Parini, Jay, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (4v.). REF PS 21 .E537 2004
Sage, Lorna. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. REF PR 111 .S24 1999
Samuels, Wilfred D. Encyclopedia of African-American Literature. Facts on File, 2007.
Sauer, Michelle M. The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Facts on File, 2008.
Shaw, Harry. Dictionary of Literary Terms. REF PN 44.5 .S46
Sousa Correa, Delia de. The Handbook to Literary Research. Routledge, 2010.
Summers, Claude J., ed. The Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage. REF PN 56 .H57 G365 2002
Wiget, Andrew. Dictionary of Native American Literature. Garland, 1994.
Authors
Contemporary Authors. REF Z 1224 .C63y
Contemporary Literary Criticism. REF PN 771
Dictionary of Literary Biography. REF PS 21 .D5
Use the following source to locate author entries in any of the three sets noted above:
Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index. REF Z 1224 .C65x 2009
Indexes and Bibliographies
Book Review Digest (1905-84). INDEX Z 1219 .C96
MLA International Bibliography (1921-2000). INDEX Z 7006 .M64
Shattock, Joan, ed. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (v.4). REF Z 2011 .N45 1999
Watson, George, ed. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (5v). REF Z 2011 .B31x
Dictionaries
Barnhart, Cynthia A. The Facts on File Student's Dictionary of American English. Facts on File, 2008.
Dalzell, Tom, ed. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2v.). REF PE 3721 .P3 2006y
Hendrickson, Robert. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. Facts on File, 2008.
The Oxford English Dictionary.
Spears, Richard A. McGraw-Hill's Essential American Slang Dictionary. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Grammar and Usage
Fowler, H.W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford, 2009.
Garner, Bryan A. Garner's Modern American Usage. REF PE 2827 .G37 2003
Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. REF PE 1106 .H74 2002
Wilson, Kenneth G. Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Columbia, 1993.
Writing
2020 Writer's Market. REF PN 161 .W83 2020
Espy, Willard R. Words to Rhyme With. REF PE 1519 .E87 2001
Lunsford, Andrea A. The Everyday Writer. REF PE 1408 .L86 2020
MLA Handbook. REF LB 2369 .G53 2016