Essential Resources
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Call Number: PS221 .D5ISBN: 0787619329Publication Date: 1998-08-10Check cumulative index for author of interest. For example, your author might be included in American naturalists.
Link is to the record for this series in the Gale Literary Databases. The online version DOES NOT contain everything from every volume of the print version. -
Nineteenth-Century literature criticism
Call Number: PN761 .N5Volumes 1 -262.
Look for periodically published "Title Index" to find criticism of a particular work.
Each volume has cumulative indices for authors, nationalities, topics, and titles covered since the preceding title index.
Each volume arranged alphabetically by author whose work is critiqued.
Some relevant print sources
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Bibliography of the Writings of Edgar A. Poe
Call Number: Z8699 .R64 1969
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The Columbia History of American Poetry
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Call Number: PS303 .C64 1993ISBN: 0231078366Publication Date: 1993-12-23Includes chapters on Longfellow, Whitman, Poe and Dickinson -
A Concordance of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose Writings
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Call Number: PS3245 .E2 1969ISBN: 0837121221Publication Date: 1970-06-01A second copy is available in the Loan area.
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Eight American authors: a review of research and criticism
Call Number: PS201 .E4 1971ISBN: 0393043509Chapters on Poe, Emerson, and Hawthorne, among others.
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Emily Dickinson, an annotated bibliography: writings, scholarship, criticism
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Call Number: Z8230.5 .B8 1970ISBN: 253319471Publication Date: 1970Also check "Dickingson scholarship: an annotated bibliography"
Call number PS1541 .Z5 D36 1988 -
Hawthorne, Melville, Stephen Crane; a critical bibliography
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Call Number: Z1225 .G76Publication Date: 1971
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : a documentary volume 349
Call Number: PS221 .D5 v.349ISBN: 9780787681678Publication Date: 2009-07-03Volume 349 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography -
A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia
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Call Number: PS1880 .G3 1991ISBN: 0313268169Publication Date: 1991-03-30Plus others in both reference and loan -
The New England writers and the press : evaluations in contemporary journalism of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Alcott, Longfellow, and others : new dimensions for transcendentalism and the American Renaissance
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Call Number: PS217.T7 N4 (Ref)Publication Date: 1980
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Walt Whitman: A documentary volume
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Call Number: PS221 .D5 v.224ISBN: 0787631337Publication Date: 2000-04-28Vol. 224 of the DLB
Includes chronology, bibliography, Whitman and his contemporaries, and an evaluation of his reputation. -
A Word Index to Walden, with Textual Notes
Call Number: PS3048 .S53 1969Other sources on Thoreau are available in the Reference sections.
