Sources for study of THE NOVEL in Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University, Camden.

Contents:

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS:
Encyclopedia of the Novel (REF PN41 .E54 1998).
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia (REF PN41.B4 1987).
Brief articles on writers of all nations and all periods, literary allusions and expressions, literary schools and movements, and plots and characters.
Oxford Companion to American Literature (REF PS21.H3 1995).
Oxford Companion to English Literature (REF PR19.D73 1995).
Brief articles on authors, literary works, characters and plots, literary allusions, etc.
Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (REF PR871.S87 1989).
BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL SOURCES:
Contemporary Novelists (REF PR883.C67 1991).
Entries on living novelists writing in English.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (REF PS88.D57).
On-going series of reference works with entries consisting of extended critical essays on individual authors. To find the entry on a particular author, check the cumulative author index in the back of the last volume. (Sections of these volumes included in the Literature Resource Center, available online .)
European Writers (REF PN501.E9 1983).
Extended essays on important writers from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Vol. 14 includes extensive author and subject indexes for the set.
Wilson Author Series. Biographical sketches, with critical commentary.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (REF CT214.B561)
Indexes over 500 biographical dictionaries which contain over 5,000,000 biographical sketches. Use to locate information on obscure authors. Available online.
COMPILATIONS OF REPRINTS OF CRITICISM:
Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800 (REF PN86.L53).
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (REF PN761.N5).
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (REF PN771.G27).
Contemporary Literary Criticism (REF PN771.C59).
Novels for Students
All of the titles listed above are, at least in part, included in the Literature Resource Center, available online
LOCATING CRITICISM OF INDIVIDUAL NOVELS:

Look for your author as a subject in IRIS, and the other resources listed on this guide.

American Novel, A Checklist of Twentieth-Century Criticism (REF Z1231.F4G4). Vol. 1, 1789-1959, Vol. 2, 1960-1968.
American Novel Explication (REF PS371 G55 1998)
Articles on Women Writers (REF Z2013.5.W6S37).
Vol. 1, criticism written 1960-75; Vol. 2, criticism written 1976-84.
Contemporary Novel; a Checklist of Critical Literature on the British and American Novel Since 1945 (REF PS379 A34 1996).
Continental Novel: A Checklist of Criticism in English, 1967-1980 (REF PN3451.F57 1983).
Earlier edition covering criticism written 1900-1966 is at (REF Z5916.K4).
Crime Fiction Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography (REF PN3448.D4).
Annotated bibliography of studies written to 1980 on crime fiction.
Eighteenth-Century English Literary Studies (REF PR441.G56 1984).
Comprehensive survey of the critical literature on the most important eighteenth century writers.
English Language Criticism on the Foreign Novel (REF PN3335.A39 1989 V.1).
The English Novel, 1578-1956: A Checklist of Twentieth-Century Criticisms (REF Z2014.F4B4).
English Novel Explication: Criticisms to 1972 (REF Z2014.F5P26). Supplements 1 & 2 extend coverage to 1979.
Criticism of novels written 1578 to present.
The English Novel: Twentieth Century Criticism: Defoe Through Hardy (REF PR821.E53 Vol. 1).
The English Novel: Twentieth Century Novelists (REF PR821.E53).
Twentieth-Century German Novel; A Bibliography of English Language Criticism, 1945-1986. (REF PT772.O63 1989).
Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research (REF PR873.S8).
Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research (REF PR871.V5 1978).
Literary Criticism Index (REF DESK PN523.W44 1994).
Index to 86 major indexes and bibliographies of literary criticism.

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