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Carolina BLU Campus Delivery Service 
Through the Carolina BLU Delivery Service, you can request to have books and articles available at any of the UNC-CH campus libraries, as well as books and articles requested through interlibrary loan, delivered to the campus library most convenient to you.
L.C. Call Nos.
This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, English language dictionaries will be classed in the PEs; British literature will be classed in the PRs; and British history will be classed in the DAs.
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Use this Location Guide to find books in Davis.
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Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UCSB)
Academic Databases 
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As with encyclopedic resources, there are indexes for almost any topic that might be supplemental to literary research, and these may be arranged by subject discipline(history, philosophy, religion, art, etc), by period, or by region. If you are unsure of an appropriate index to use, try searching E-Research Tools By Subject and first try the "Recommended Databases."
Also, there are a number of Subject Guides for Literature that may prove useful for finding book reviews, play production reveiws, etc. There is also a much more detailed guide for Nineteenth Century British Literature.
MLA International Bibliography
A major index of literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. In addition to indexing several thousand journals, MLA also covers relevant books, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLA is a very ambitious index, providing indexing of criticism for all literatures worldwide, except for classical Greek and Latin literature. For literary criticism of classical authors search L'Annee Philologique.
MLA now links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse, two major full-text journal collections.
Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various Gale criticism sets. It is possbile in LRC to search for authors individually or to perform a "Person Search," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on literary authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides much excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version.
Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 8,200 scholarly, trade & general publications. A very broad, interdisciplinary index linking to much full text, Academic Search Premier is less specialized for literary criticism than MLA but good for book reviews, play & film reviews, etc. since about 1980.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center includes plot summaries, author biographies & some literary criticism.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a database of high quality visual images & includes photographs of Victorian writers, paintings by D. G. Rossetti, etc., etc.
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
Resources for Poetry Explication
These bibliographies of poetry explication (analysis) provide a quick source to identify criticism of individual poems.
Guide to British poetry explication . 4 vols. Nancy C. Martinez and Joseph G.R. Martinez. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991-
v. 1. Old English, medieval -- v. 2. Renaissance -- v. 3. Restoration-romantic -- v. 4. Victorian-contemporary.
Davis Reference Desk Z2014.P7 M34 1991
Guide to American poetry explication. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1989-
v. 1. Colonial and nineteenth century v. 2. Modern and contemporary
Davis Reference Desk Z1231.P7 G85 1989
Finding Books 
Catalog Search Tips
Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.
Keyword Search: Thomas Hardy female characters
Search by LC Subject Heading: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Characters--Women.
POTENTIALLY USEFUL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Christianity and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Symbolism.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Great Britain--History--19th century.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain--Religion--19th century.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Religion.
Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
Author: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Subject: Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Encyclopedic Resources for Literature
Subject encyclopedias can be very useful for providing an overview and context for a variety of specialized topics. Most essays will also include a bibliography. A number of reference books from Oxford U. Press are now available electronically via Oxford Reference Online Premium.
The Oxford encyclopedia of British literature [electronic resource] . 5 vols. David Scott Kastan, editor in chief. Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Provides essays on individual authors, literary movements, etc.
Davis Reference PR19 .O95 2006
The Encyclopedia of romanticism : culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s . Laura Dabundo, editor. New York : Garland Pub., 1992.
Davis Reference DA529 .E53 1992
A Handbook to English romanticism . Edited by Jean Raimond and J.R. Watson. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PR457 .H26 1992
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era . 4 vols. James Eli Adams, editor in chief ; Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, editors. Danbury, Conn. : Grolier Academic Reference, c2004.
Davis Reference DA550 .E527 2004
Victorian Britain : an encyclopedia . Sally Mitchell, editor ... [et al.]. New York : Garland Pub., 1988.
Davis Reference DA550 .V53 1988
A companion to Victorian literature & culture . Edited by Herbert F. Tucker. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Davis Reference PR461 .C597 1999
Gothic literature . 3 vols. Foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle ; Jessica Bomarito, project editor. Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2006.
In addition to topical essays, this includes essays on Brontë & Shelley.
Davis Reference PR408.G68 G675 2006
Encyclopedia of literary modernism . Edited by Paul Poplawski. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Davis Reference PN56.M54 E53 2003
Electronic Literary Texts
Literature Online (LION)
A searchable database of several hundred thousand English language poems, plays, & novels. Within LION, search "Authors" or "Texts" for the literary texts.
Victorian Women Writers Project
The William Blake Archive
The authoritative source for studying Blake's poetry in the graphic context he intended it to be read.
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti—A Hypermedia Archive
19th C. Primary Sources
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
A major collection of 48 national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers held in the British Library.
Times (London) Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 is a full-image online archive of the complete run of the world's oldest continuously published newspaper.
Literary Terminology, the OED, & MLA Style
The Oxford dictionary of literary terms [electronic resource]Chris Baldick. 3rd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
A handbook to literature. William Harmon. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
A very clearly written handbook.
Davis Reference Desk PN41 .H355 2009
MLA handbook for writers of research papers. Joseph Gibaldi. 7th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Davis Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2009
Oxford English Dictionary
A comprehensive dictionary of the English Language that stresses the historical origins of words. The Oxford English Dictionary is the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150.