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Guides to the Field
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A bibliographic guide recommends research and reference materials and may also suggest ways of doing research in a discipline. This web page itself is a brief bibliographic guide, but here are two much more extensive guides in book form.
Reference Works in British and American Literature
Ed. James K. Bracken, 1990, 1998.
Z 2011.B74 1990 and 1998 (Ref)
The 1990 volume lists, describes, and evaluates hundreds of reference works about British and American literature and individual writers. Separate categories in the 1990 edition include standard reference types, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, general and specialized bibliographies, biographical sources, and core journals. The 1998 volume is a revision of the second volume first published in 1990 and consists of an alphabetical guide by author to reference sources on hundreds of major individual British and American authors. A concise paragraph is devoted to each recommended resource in each of these volumes.
Literary Research Guide
Ed. James L. Harner, 3rd. ed.
Z 2011.H34 1998 (Ref)
This guide serves the same purpose as Bracken's book but is more thorough and detailed. Bracken himself recommends Harner's book as being the most thorough guide, both for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty, in English literary studies. This book is published by the Modern Language Association of America, the most prestigious scholarly organization of literature and language professors in the United States. This book provides advice on research methods, recommends guides to manuscripts and archives, Internet resources, and genres, and has separate sections on research in English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, American, and other literatures in English.
WMU English DepartmentThis site describes the courses offered in Western Michigan University's English Department as well as offering some information about the professors who teach these courses.
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