English Literature

The boxes below are curated lists of reference works in Buley library.

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Backgrounds to English Literature

British and Irish literature and its times : Celtic migrations to the Reform Bill (beginnings-1830s)

British writers 

Chronological outlines of English literature

The concise Cambridge history of English literature

Contemporary English literature

Great writers of the English language

Humor in British literature, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration : a reference guide

Modern British literature 

The Oxford chronology of English literature

Twentieth-century British literature

The age of Dryden

Annals of English drama, 975-1700; an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles, dramatic companies, &c

Annals of English literature, 1475-1950; the principal publications of each year, together with an alphabetical index of authors with their works

A bibliographical guide to Old English : a selective bibliography of the language, literature, and history of the Anglo-Saxons

A bibliography of modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)

British and American utopian literature, 1516-1975 : an annotated bibliography

British literary bibliography, 1980-1989 : a bibliography

The Cambridge bibliography of English literature

A chronological list of prose fiction in English printed in England and other countries, 1475-1640

Early English printed books in the University library, Cambridge

Elizabethan Bibliographies

English literature, 1660-1800; a bibliography of modern studies

 Index of English literary manuscripts. Volume I 1450-1625

The New Cambridge bibliography of English literature

Old English literature; a select bibliography 

Pre-Raphaelitism; a bibliocritical study

A reference guide for English studies

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700

The Shorter new Cambridge bibliography of English literature

The Year's work in English studies

A biographical dictionary of Renaissance poets and dramatists, 1520-1650

British writers. Retrospective supplement I

British writers. Retrospective supplement VII

British writers. Supplement III, James M. Barrie to Mary Wollstonecraft

British writers. Supplement VII

British writers. Supplement VIII

Concise dictionary of British literary biography

A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century

Dictionary of English literature : being a comprehensive guide to English authors and their works

Dictionary of literary biography yearbook 

The Oxford guide to British women writers 

Arthurian writers : a biographical encyclopedia 

British women writers : a critical reference guide 

The Cambridge guide to literature in English

The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English

An encyclopedia of British women writers

Encyclopedia of British writers

Encyclopedia of British writers, 1800 to the present

Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English 

A historical companion to postcolonial thought in English

Twenty-first-century "black" British writers

Who wrote what? : a dictionary of writers & their works 

A companion to British literature

The concise Oxford companion to English literature

Handbook of literary research

Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies 

The New Century handbook of English literature

The Oxford companion to English literature 

Reader's guide to literature in English 

Chaucer and the fifteenth century

English literature at the close of the Middle Ages

Old and Middle English literature

Crowell's handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart literature

Major Tudor authors : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook

Sixteenth-century British nondramatic writers. First series

Sixteenth-century British nondramatic writers. Second series

Sixteenth-century British nondramatic writers. Third series

Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers. Fourth Series

The age of Milton : an encyclopedia of major 17th-century British and American authors 

Crowell's handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart literature

English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660

English literature of the late seventeenth century

Major Tudor authors : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook

British reform writers, 1789-1832

British women poets of the Romantic era : an anthology

Eighteenth-century English literary studies : a bibliography

Eighteenth century English literature and its cultural background; a bibliography

English literature, 1789-1815

English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740

Gothic literature

Literature of the romantic period : a bibliographical guide

Bibliographies of twelve Victorian authors

British authors of the nineteenth century

British children's writers, 1800-1880 

British children's writers 1880-1914

British reform writers, 1832-1914

Edwardian and Georgian fiction, 1880 to 1914

English literature, 1815-1832

British children's writers, 1914-1960

British children's writers since 1960. First series

British writers. Supplement IV

British writers. Supplement V, Ayckbourn to G. Swift

British writers. Supplement VI

Contemporary popular writers

Encyclopedia of British women's writing, 1900-1950

Modern British literature

Modern British women writers : an A-to-Z guide

The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English

A reader's guide to twentieth-century writers 

St. James guide to young adult writers

Twentieth century British literature; a reference guide and bibliography

Women Writers of the first world war

Anglo-Irish literature : a review of research

The Cambridge history of Irish literature 

Dictionary of Irish literature

Dictionary of Irish writers 

An Irish literary dictionary and glossary

Irish literary magazines : an outline history and descriptive bibliography 

Irish women writers : an A-to-Z guide 

Modern Irish writers : a bio-critical sourcebook

The Oxford companion to Irish literature