REFERENCE BOOKS: Professor Amanda Springs (in progress)

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. E169.1 .E624 2001

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. 5 vol. E185 .E54 2006

W.E.B. Du Bois: an Encyclopedia. E185.97 D73 W164 2001

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. F1406 .E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Cuba. F1754 .E53 2003

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. F209 .E53 1989

Encyclopedia of Mexico. F1210 .E63 1997

Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. 2 vols. HT861 .M24 1998

Encyclopedia of Women in American History. HQ1410 .E53 2001

Literature and Its Times. PN50 .L574 1997

World Literature & Its Times. PN50 .M625

Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. PN56 .M54 E53 2003

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. PQ7081. A1 E56 1997 & online through CLIO

Latin American Writers. 3 vols + suppl. PQ7081 .A1 E56 1999

Dictionary of Literary Biography. 200 plus vols.  PS129 .D5

Harlem Renaissance: a Gale Critical Companion.PS153 .N5 H245 2003

Oxford Companion to African American Literature. PS153 .N5 096 1997

Writing African American Women. PS153 .N5 W756 2006

Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. PS1541 .Z49 E47 1998

Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia. PS1880 .G3 1991

Edgar Allan Poe A to Z. PS2630 .S68 2001

Walt Whitman: an Encyclopedia. PS3230 .W35 1998

William Faulkner A to Z. PS3511 .A86 Z459 2002

Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. PS3515 .U274 Z459 2002

 

ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES:
Cambridge Collections Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Latin American Women Writers

Oxford African American Studies Center
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Scholarship Online

 

 

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