Reference Tools and Print Resources

The Library is strong in print resources and reference tools for the study of English, American and Australian literature and language, including good collections of primary resources (in the Fisher Library Research Collection, the Microfilm Collection, SETIS and in Rare Books and Special Collections). Each literary period or style is provided with a substantial selection of reference tools to aid research, and a representative selection is listed on these pages:

Guides to the Literature

Afro-American fiction, 1853-1976 : a guide to information sources / edited by Edward Margolies, David Bakish.
Detroit : Gale Research Co., c.1979.
Fisher Research 016.813008 / 3

American fiction to 1900 : a guide to information resources / David K. Kirby.
Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1975.
Fisher Ref 016.813008 / 2

Annals of Australian literature / Joy Hooton & Harry Heseltine. 2nd ed.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992
Fisher Ref A820.16 / 2A

Augustan literature : a guide to restoration and eigtheenth century literature, 1660-1789 / edited by Eva Simmon.
London : Bloomsbury, 1994.
Fisher Research 820.9 / 1771

Australian poets and their works : a reader's guide / W.H. Wilde.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996
Fisher Ref A821.09 / 17

Deadly women / edited by Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr.
New York : Carrol & Graf, 1998.
Fisher Rare Bk DF RB100

Feminist companion to literature in English : women writers from the Middle Ages to the present / editors Virginia Bain, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy.
London : Batsford, 1990.
Fisher Ref 803 / 52

Fifteen centuries of children's literature : an annotated chronology of British and American works in historical context / Jane Bingham.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1980.
Fisher Ref 010 / 99
Curric. Ref 010 / 99

Science fiction reference book : a comprehensive handbook and guide to the history, literature, scholarship, and related activities of the science fiction and fantasy fields / edited by Marshall B. Tymny.
Mercer Island, Wash. : Starmont House, c1981.
Fisher Research 809.3876 / 50

Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism / edited by Michael Groden & Martin Kreiswirth.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Fisher Research 803 / 64

Twentieth century crime and mystery writers /editor Lesley Henderson. 3rd ed.
Chicago : St. James Press, c1991.
Fisher Ref 809.387203 / 1

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Fisher Ref 420 / 99

Dictionary of literary terms / Martin Gray.
Harlow : York Press, 1992
Fisher Research 803 / 69

Ordbog over det norrlone prosaprog = A dictionary of Old Norse Prose.
Copenhagen : Arnamagnoeanske Commission, 1989 -
Proposed 12 volume dictionary. Fisher holds vols. for a-bam; Nogle- and Registre.
Fisher Research 839.603 2

Dictionary of the Irish language : based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials.
Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 1990
Fisher Ref 491.62321 / 6

Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English / edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Connolly
London : Routledge, 1994
Fisher Res 820.3 / 16 / 4

Encyclopedia of science fiction / edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls. 2nd ed.
London : Orbit, 1993
Fisher Rare Bk-SF RB 178 Fisher Ref 808.3876 / 9

Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature.
Sprigfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, 1995.
Fisher 803 / 67

MUP ncyclopedia of Austtralian science fiction and fantasy / edited by Paul Collins.
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1998
Fisher Ref A823.03 / 1

Twentieth century : a guide to literature from 1900 to the present day / edited by Linda R. Williams.
London : Bloomsbury, 1992.
Fisher Ref 809.04 / 101

Bibliographies

American & British literature, 1945-1975 : an annotated bibliography of contemporary scholarship / John Somer and Barbara Eck Cooper.
Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas, c1980..
Fisher Ref 016.8209 / 16

American fiction to 1900 : a guide to information sources / David K. Kirby.
Detroit : Gale Research Co., (1975).
Fisher Ref 016.813008 / 2

Anatomy of wonder 4 : a critical guide to science fiction / edited by Neil Barron. 4th ed.
New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker, c1995.
Fisher Ref 016.8083876 / 2A

Australian literary criticism 1945-1988 : an annotated bibliography / Robert Ross.
New York : Garland, 1989.
Fisher Ref 016.8209 /25

Australian children's books : a bibliography / Marcie Muir. 2 vols.
Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1992.
Fisher Ref 011.623 / 34
Curriculum 011.623 / 34

Australian science fiction index, 1925-1967, compiled by Graham Stone.
Canberra : Australian Science Fiction Association, (1968).
Fisher Rare Bk-SF RB 77
Fisher Ref A823.016 / 1A

Bibliography of Australian poetry 1935-1955 / by Sue Murray ; edited by John Arnold, Sally Batten and Katie Purvis.
Melbourne : D.W. Thorpe in association with National Centre for Australian Studies, c1991.
Fisher Ref 016.821 / 13

Bibliography of literary criticism. Magill's bibliography of literary criticism : selected sources for the study of more than 2,500 outstanding works of Western literature / edited by Frank N. Magill.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press, 1979
Fisher Ref 016.8 / 9

Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies.
Copenhagen : Royal Library
Library has: 1 (1963)-18 (1983).
Fisher Ref 439.6 / 6

Bibliography of publications on Old English literature to the end of 1972 / Stanley B. Greenfield and Fred C. Robinson, using the collections of E.E. Ericson.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1980.
Fisher Ref 016.829 / 1

Old and Middle English language studies : a classified bibliography, 1923-1985 / compiled by Matsuji Tajima.
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.
Fisher Ref 016.429 / 3

Old and Middle English literature / edited by Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell.
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994.
Fisher Ref 820.3 / 19

Shakespeare index : an annotate bibliography / Joseph Rosenblum.
Pasadena, C.A. : Salem Press, 1992.
Fisher Research 016.82233 / 35

Indexes and Abstracts

Essay and general literature index.
New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1900 - .
Fisher Ref 805 / 15

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts (LLBA).
La Jolla, Calif. 1967 -
Fisher Ref 400 / 27

MLA international bibliography of books and articles on modern languages and literatures.
New York ; Modern Language Association, 1922 - .
Fisher Ref 405 / 11

Book Reviews

Book review index.
Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1965 -
Bimonthly with annual cumulations.
Fisher Ref 028.105 / 3

Book review digest.
New York : Wilson, 1905 -
Provides citations to reviews of current English fiction appearing in U.S., Canadian and British periodicals.
Fisher Ref 015.73 / 9

Index to Australian book reviews.
1965-1979
Fisher Ref 028.105 / 4