Recent American Fiction

This is a list of some of the resources in Paul Robeson Library, and on the Internet, that may be useful in your research. For more information please ask a reference librarian.


Reference Works

Encyclopedia of American Culture / REF E 169.12 E49 2001
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture / REF E 169.1 S764 2000
American Decades / REF E 169.12 A419 (e.g. 1980-1989, 1990-1999)

Contemporary Literary Criticism / REF PN 771 C59 (partially included in the Literature Resource Center
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism / REF PN 771 G27 (partically included in the LRC)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction / REF PN 3321 C7 2001
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication / REF PN 3373 W3 1977
Contemporary Novelists / REF PR 883 C67 1991
Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English / REF PR 471 O94 1996
Dictionary of Literary Biography / PS 88 D57
American Novel Explication / REF PS 371 G55 1998
Contemporary Christian Authors / REF PS 374 C48 D45 2000
Contemporary African American Novelists / REF PS 374 N4 C658 1999
Modern American Novel of the Left / REF PS 374 P6 B36 1999
Contemporary Novel / PS 379 A34 1996
Voices of Multicultural America / REF PS 663 M55 V64 1996
Black American Women Novelists / REF PS 153 N5 W47 1989
Encyclopedia of American War Literature / REF PS 169 W27 E53
Contemporary Women Poets / REF PS 151 C67 1997
Coumbia Compation to Twentieth Century American Short Story / REF PS 374 S5 C57 2000

Locating Books

If you are looking for books on your topic you might first try using the primary topic word as a subject search. If this does not retrieve any books, try searching for the word using the "search everything" option.

Be aware that items at the Alexander Library in New Brunswick purchased before c. 1970 and not checked out since then are not included in IRIS. We have a copy of their old card catalog from c. 1970 on microfilm. Ask at the Reference Desk for more information.

Two other catalogs may be useful in locating resources for your paper. Both will include some primary sources. You can request items from these catalogs on interlibrary loan.

Appropriate Journal Indexes

The library has several journal indexes available. The best index for you will depend on your topic. Some of the indexes that are likely to be relevant are:

MLA Bibliography
Humanities Index
Literature Resource Center

For very current literature another option is Academic Search Premiere

Internet Resources


There are some other electronic lists at Robeson Library that might be useful, includeding:

Poetry Criticism
Short Story Criticism
The Novel
Other Internet Resources
Literary Resources on the Net
Voice of the Shuttle


updated 10/15/02
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