Research Guides: ENL 240 British Literary Studies I: Subject Bibliographies

Subject Bibliographies

The following bibliographies are compiled by English literary scholars.
They identify unusual and valuable sources.
As bibliographies, they emphasize on providing citations to books, articles, and documents.
- The online sources like The Year's Work in English Studies Online and Oxford Bibliographies will have full-text.
- Print bibliographies will not.
English Department Library Liaison Nancy Dennis will be happy to help you interpret what citations mean.
She will also help you complete Interlibrary Loan requests for items not available through our library or on the Internet.
This is the link for submitting an Interlibrary Loan requests for items found in print bibliographies.

Oxford Bibliographies (Library Database)

Oxford Bibliographies
Two subject categories are relevant to ENL 240 students: Medieval Studies and Renaissance and Reformation. Browse entries in these sections or enter search terms in the Search Box at the top of the page.

Annual Reviews of Research

The Year's Work in English Studies by The English Journal
Call Number: PE 58 .E6
Publication Date: 1919-1978
These bound volumes are shelved in the stacks and are available to check out.

The Year's Work in English Studies (Online)
Holdings:
Oxford Journals Humanities Archive 01/01/1921 - 12/31/1995
Oxford Journals (WALDO) 01/01/1996 - present
Oxford University Press 01/01/2009 - 12/31/2010

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Garland Reference Library of the Humanities

An Annotated Bibliography of John Dryden by John A. Zamonski
Call Number: PR 3424 .Z3
ISBN: 0824010590
Publication Date: 1975-11-01
The Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. DA 152.5 .A7 A78 1986; DA 152.5 .A7 A78 1986 c.1; DA 152.5 .A7 A78 1986 c.2
ISBN: 0824087453
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
The Library owns three copies of the Arthurian Encyclopedia. One is in the Reference Collection. The other two are in the stacks and are available for borrowing.
The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy; Geoffrey Ashe
Call Number: Ref. PN 685 .L3 1988
ISBN: 0824079418
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
This is a Reference book. It must be read in the Library.
British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985 by Lyman Sargent (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PR 149 .U8 S28 1988
ISBN: 0824006941
Publication Date: 1988-06-01
This is a Reference book. It must be read in the Library.
Chaucer Name Dictionary by Jacqueline De Weever; Donald K. Fry (Foreword by)
Call Number: PR 1903 .D4 1988; Ref. PR 1903 .D4 1988
ISBN: 0824083067
Publication Date: 1988-03-01
The Library owns two copies. One is in the Reference collection; the other is in the stacks and is available to check out.
Clothes Make the Man by Valerie R. Hotchkiss
Call Number: E-Book; Print Book HQ 77 .H67 1996
ISBN: 9781135231729
Publication Date: 2012-11-12
The Library has both a print copy and an e-book for this title.
The Gawain-Poet by Malcolm Andrew
Call Number: PR 1972 .G35 A55
ISBN: 0824098153
Publication Date: 1979-02-01
Henry V: An Annotated Bibliography by Joseph Candido and Charles Forker
Call Number: PR 2812 .C35 1983
ISBN: 0824093232
Publication Date: 1983-10-01
Medieval Family Roles by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781136537646
Publication Date: 2012-12-06
Medieval Studies by Everett U. Crosby
Call Number: CB 351 .C76 1983
ISBN: 0824091078
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Medieval Warfare by Everett U. Crosby
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1135576254
Publication Date: 2000-08-14
The Merchant of Venice by Thomas Wheeler
Call Number: PR 2825 .W47 1985
ISBN: 0824091140
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Middle English Romance by Joanne A. Rice
Call Number: Ref. PR 321 .R5 1987
ISBN: 0824088301
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
This is a Reference book. It must be read in the Library.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by D. Allen Carroll; Gary J. Williams; William L. Godshalk (Editor)
Call Number: PR 2827 .C37 1986
ISBN: 082409073X
Publication Date: 1986-04-01
Reading the Renaissance by Jonathan Hart (Editor)
Call Number: PN 603 .R38 1996
ISBN: 0815323557
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Renaissance Humanism Thirteen Hundred to Fifteen-Fifty by Benjamin G. Kohl
Call Number: B 778 .K64 1985
ISBN: 0824087739
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Richard II by Josephine A. Roberts
Call Number: PR 2820 .R63 1988 v.1; PR 2820 .R63 1988 v.2
ISBN: 0824085884
Publication Date: 1988-03-01
Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism by Philip C. Kolin
Call Number: Ref. PR 2965 .K64 1991
ISBN: 082407386X
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
This is a Reference book. It must be read in the Library.
Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages by John Block Friedman (Editor); Kristen Mossler Figg (Editor); Gregory G. Guzman (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. HF 1001 .T7 2000
ISBN: 0815320035
Publication Date: 2000-08-08
This is a Reference book. It must be read in the Library.

New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1800-1900 by George Watson (Editor)
Call Number: PR 83 .N45
ISBN: 0521072557
Publication Date: 1969-10-01
Five volumes. Refer to Volume I for coverage of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Middle English, and the Renaissance to the Restoration.

Additional Titles

A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972 by Stanley B. Greenfield; Fred C. Robinson
Call Number: PR 173 .G83
ISBN: 0802022928
Publication Date: 1980-12-01
Literary Research and The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources describes this book as "a seminal work in Old English Studies."
Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0191533017
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Old and Middle English Language Studies by Matsuji Tajima
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9027237328
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Literary Research and The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources explains that Tajima continued the scholarship of Arthur Kennedy's Bibliography of Writings on the English Language which was published in 1929.
The Essential Chaucer by John H. Fisher; Mark Allen
Call Number: PR 1905 .A43 1987
ISBN: 0816187398
Publication Date: 1987-10-01
Favorable evaluation in Literary Research and The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources.
From Pearl to Gawain by Robert J. Blanch; Julian N. Wasserman
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0813021294
Publication Date: 1995
Literary Research and The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources recommends this source.