Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection: Provides authoritative information from over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, such as The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.
Literature Research Center: Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors.
General Print Reference Sources for Literature
Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia
Includes information for the general reader on writers, literary movements, works, historical perspectives, etc.
WCU REFERENCE DESK PN41 .B4 1996
Contemporary Authors
Helps researchers discover biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. Current writers are featured as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States.
WCU REFERENCE PN771 .C58
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay, and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.
WCU REFERENCE PN771 .C59
Contemporary World Writers
Contains biographical and bibliographical information on 345 authors
WCU REFERENCE PN771 .C6235 1993
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century
Includes information on individual writers, literary movements, and national literatures.
WCU REFERENCE PN771 .E5 1999
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Covers the literatures of the world. Includes information on literary characters, plot summaries, terminology, etc.
WCU REFERENCE PN41 .M42 1995