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Literatures and Languages Virtual Reference Center

In addition to the Literatures and Languages Library's print collection and our collections of journals, we also offer access to a wide range of electronic reference books in both general and more specific topics. This page indexes our e-book holdings.

Unless otherwise noted, access to resources listed on this page is restricted to UIUC users.

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General Literature |
Dictionaries |
American Literature |
British and Irish Literature |
Cinema Reference |
Drama Reference |
Historical Reference |
Linguistics Reference |
Shakespeare

General Literature

1913: the Cradle of Modernism

Adventures in Realism

After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance

Basic Elements of Narrative

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English

Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters

Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies

A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Critical Terms for Literary Study

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

Feminism in Literature: a Critical Companion

Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers

Generaciones' Narratives: the Pursuit and Practice of Traditional and Electronic Literacies on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Technological Ecologies & Sustainability

Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World

Transnational Literate Lives in Literate Times

Uses of Literature

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Dictionaries in Credo Reference (includes dictionaries in a number of more specific subject categories, such as art, music and science, as well as conventional language dictionaries)

American Literature

African-American Writers: a Dictionary

Chronology of American Literature

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

A Companion to Emily Dickinson

A Companion to Henry James

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America

A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900-1950

A Companion to William Faulkner

A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950

Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: the Twentieth Century

Herman Melville: an Introduction

British and Irish Literature

All Things Chaucer

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature

Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable

A Brontë Encyclopedia

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

A Companion to Arthurian Literature

A Companion to Charles Dickens

A Companion to Jane Austen

A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story

A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature

Dictionary of British History

Dictionary of Shakespeare

Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

A Grammar of Old English (vol. 1: Phonology; vol. 2: Morphology)

A History of Victorian Literature

Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature

A Short History of Early Modern England: British Literature in Context

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

Cinema Reference

Chambers Film Factfinder

History of the American Cinema: 10 volumes are available in Gale Virtual Reference Library (under "Arts" category)

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 4th ed.: available in Gale Virtual Reference Library

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film: available in Gale Virtual Reference Library

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever: available in Gale Virtual Reference Library

Drama Reference

Cambridge Guide to Theatre

Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Historical Reference

American Decades

Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism

Brewer's Britain and Ireland

Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Encyclopaedia Judaica

Encyclopedia of North American Indian

Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography

Great Irish Lives: an Era in Obituaries

Great Victorian Lives: an Era in Obituaries

A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography

Reader's Companion to American History

Linguistics Reference

Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language

Shakespeare

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text

How to Do Things with Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays

Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth

Shakespeare's Sonnets (a guide to the sonnets by Dympna Callaghan)

Shakespeare's Theatre: a Dictionary of His Stage Context

William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke (open access: free to all users)

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