Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies

by James L. Harner

With over seven hundred pages, James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide evaluates important bibliographies, abstracts, surveys of research, indexes, databases, catalogs, annals, dictionaries, and the like. In the new edition, Harner has added entries describing new resources and has revised nearly half the entries from the first edition. The second edition contains almost 1,200 entries; the annotations discuss an additional 1,248 books and articles and cite 745 reviews. The guide concludes with name, title, and subject indexes.An extraordinarily thorough bible of sources in English studies.... This work should be manacled to the wrist of every student entering an English Department. Year's Work in English StudiesThis work is a gold mine of information and a model of its kind. American Reference Books Annual

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Research

766 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bibliography of bibliographies. Necessity for literature professionals & graduate students.

[Roof Beam Reader (Adam) · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent resource for scholarly research in literature and the related fields.

[Mills College Library]

016.8209 H289L 2008