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MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
An international index to scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. ...
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Literature Resource Center
Large database containing extensive biographical and critical information on writers, movements, and works from virtually all time periods. ...
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The OED is the accepted authority on the history of words in the English language. It is the most important guide to the meaning and history of over a half-million words, both past and presen...
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Oxford Dictionary Of Literary Terms
Third edition (2008), written by Chris Baldick, contains about 1,200 entries covering "everything from the ancient "dithyramb" to the contemporary "dub poetry," from the popular "bodice-ripper" to th...
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ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language): Connect or More Details

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All Things Chaucer: An Encyclopedia of Chaucer's World: Connect or More Details

American Heritage Book of English Usage: Connect or More Details

Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999: Connect or More Details

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Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory: Connect or More Details

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Cambridge Collections Online: Connect or More Details

Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory: Connect or More Details

Cambridge Histories Online: Connect or More Details

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Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature: Connect or More Details

Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Connect or More Details

Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: Connect or More Details

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry: Connect or More Details

Companion to Herman Melville: Connect or More Details

Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture: Connect or More Details

Companion to Satire: Connect or More Details

Companion to Walt Whitman: Connect or More Details

Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America: Connect or More Details

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Critical Companion to Dante: Connect or More Details

Devil's Dictionary: Connect or More Details

Dictionary of Chinese Characters: Accessed By Phonetics: Connect or More Details

Dictionary of Literary Symbols: Connect or More Details

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Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature: Connect or More Details

Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature: Connect or More Details

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature: Connect or More Details

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature: Connect or More Details

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion: Connect or More Details

Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature: Connect or More Details

Glossary of English Grammar: Connect or More Details

Gothic Literature: Connect or More Details

Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion: Connect or More Details

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: Connect or More Details

Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires: Connect or More Details

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: Connect or More Details

J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment: Connect or More Details

Literature Resource Center: Connect or More Details

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Middle English Compendium: Connect or More Details

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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook: Connect or More Details

New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Connect or More Details

Notable Latino Writers: Connect or More Details

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG): A Digital Library of Greek Literature: Connect or More Details

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