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Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
Fifth edition • James L. Harner
Available to libraries in a searchable online format and to individuals as an affordable paperback.
For Libraries
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for eProduct/Best in Humanities, the online Guide is based on the fifth print edition and is updated regularly. The electronic edition allows you to look up materials in WorldCat, Google Books, and your library’s online catalog. Use the personalization feature to save searches and individual entries and to write notes about them for later reference.
The Guide includes over 1,000 entries, which refer to nearly 1,600 additional books, articles, and electronic resources and cite 700 reviews.
The annotations for each work typically
- describe its type, its scope, its major limitations, and its organization
- present parts of a typical entry
- list the type and number of indexes
- evaluate coverage, organization, and accuracy
- explain its uses in research
- cite significant reviews
- note supplementary and complementary works
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For Individuals
View the table of contents.
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year for 2008. Click here to read the TLS review.
“Full of research tips and perceptive observations on the strengths and weaknesses of various resources. Essential. All academic collections; upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.”
— Choice
“Marvellously comprehensive and reliable tool...Every scholar and every library should own this book.”
— Times Literary Supplement Online