Reviews and bibliographies

Richard D Altick and John J Fenstermaker, The art of literary research, 4^th edition (New York: Norton, 1993)

PR 56 ALT

Jacques Barzun and Henry F Graff, The modern researcher 6^th edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth 2004)

D 13 BAR

Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb and Joseph M Williams, The  craft of research 2^nd edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Q 180.55.M4 BOO

Pat Cryer, The research student’s guide to success 3^rd edition (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2006)                           

LB 2395 CRY

A handbook to literary research 2^nd edition, ed. by Delia da Sousa Correa and W R Owens (London: Routledge, 2010)                                       

PN 73 HAN

Estelle M Phillips and D.S. Pugh, How to get a PhD: a handbook for students and their supervisors 4^th ed (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2005)

LB 2391.G7 PHI

The Chicago manual of style 15^th ed (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Z 253 CHI

Joseph Gibaldi, MLA handbook for writers of research papers 6^th ed (New York: Modern Language Association, 2003)

Ref. PN 147 GIB

Joseph Gibaldi, MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing 2^nd ed (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998)

PN 147 GIB

MHRA style guide: a handbook for authors, editors, and writers of theses 2^nd ed (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2008)

PN 147 MHR

www.mhra.org.uk

The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors 2nd ed, ed. & compiled by R M Ritter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Ref PE 1628 OXF

The Oxford style manual, ed. & compiled by R M Ritter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

PN 147 OXF

Elsie Myers Stainton, The fine art of copyediting (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)

PN 162 STA

American doctoral dissertations 1964/65-

Serial Z 5053.A5

EThOS [allows researchers to download available UK theses to their desktops]

Available via MetaLib

Index to theses [abstracts of doctoral theses in UK and Ireland from 1716 onwards]

Available via MetaLib

British Library integrated catalogue

http://catalogue.bl.uk/

COPAC (Consortium of University Research Libraries online public-access catalogue)

www.copac.ac.uk

Library of Congress online catalog

http://catalog.loc.gov/

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon: das 20. Jahrhundert: biographisches-bibliographisches Handbuch (K.G. Saur, 2000 -)

Z 2230 DEU

Many other bibliographies relating to specific periods of German literature can be found at classmarks Z 2221 -

Z 2258

The library also has many bibliographies of individual authors, starting at Z 8000. For example, a bibliography of Brentano would be found at Z 8117.45, and for Schiller at Z 8793

Year’s work in modern language studies (Modern Humanities Research Association, 1920 -)

Serial Z 2015.Y4 and online via MetaLib

M.H. Abrams, A glossary of literary terms, 8^th ed. (Boston, Ma: Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005)

PN 44.5 ABR

J A Cuddon, A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 4^th ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)    

PN 44.5 CUD

Jeremy Hawthorne, A glossary of contemporary literary theory, 4^th ed. (London: Arnold, 2000)

PN 44.5 HAW

Oxford dictionary of quotations, 5^th ed. ed. by Elizabeth Knowles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Ref. PN 6081 OXF

Oxford English dictionary, 2^nd ed. prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)

See also the updated online version via MetaLib, at http://metalib.bris.ac.uk/

Oversize PE 1625 OXF

Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory, ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan (London: Routledge, 2005)

PN 212 ROU