Literary Research Guide

The Literary Research Guide was an annotated guide to selected reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics. It was discontinued in December 2017.

It was written by the late James L. Harner from 1989 through the sixth edition in 2014 and then updated by Angela Courtney. This repository contains the sixth edition’s HTML, XML (DocBook v4.5), and CSS. The Modern Language Association invites you to use this code under the guidelines of this repository’s CC-BY 4.0 license.

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 This version of the Literary Research Guide is based on the sixth edition, published by the Modern Language Association in 2014. The Modern Language Association has since made the HTML, XML, and CSS of this edition available on GitHub under the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 license. The Modern Language Association did not create this version and is not responsible for the contents, display, accessibility, or any other aspect of it.

Contents

 * The Research Process

1. Research Methods

2. Guide to Reference Works

3. Literary Handbooks, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias

4. Bibliographies of Bibliographies

5. Libraries and Library Catalogs

6. Guides to Manuscripts and Archives

7. Serial Bibliographies, Indexes, and Abstracts

8. Guides to Dissertations and Theses

9. Internet Resources

10. Biographical Sources

11. Periodicals

12. Genres

13. English Literature

14. Irish Literature

15. Scottish Literature

16. Welsh Literature

17. American Literature

18. Other Literatures in English

19. Foreign Language Literatures

20. Comparative Literature

21. Literature-Related Topics and Sources