HELPS FOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

The novel

The short story

Poetry

Drama

Linguistics
LITERARY PERIODS: ENGLISH LITERATURE
Old English
Middle English
Chaucer
Arthurian
Renaissance
17th Century
18th Century
Romantic
19th Century
20th Century

GENERAL SERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

TOPICAL SERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN JOURNALS

English literature

American literature

Other specialized literature

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN JOURNALS

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES

General

Literary

STANDARD GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Abrams. GLOSSARY. (short but seminal)
* Bateson, F.W. THE CAMBRIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 4 vols. 1940. Vol. V. ed. George Watson, 1957. (CBEL)
Bateson, F. W. A GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. 1968.
Gohdes and Marovitz. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF THE LITERATURE OF THE U.S.A. 1984-.
* GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 1966-. (selected topics)
Kennedy, Arthur G. and Donald B. Sands. A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH. 1972.
Leary, Lewis. AMERICAN LITERATURE: A STUDY AND RESEARCH GUIDE. 1976-.
* Leary, Lewis. ARTICLES ON AMERICAN LITEARTURE, 1900-1950. 1954.
Leary, Lewis. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP: A CRITICAL REVIEW.
* Spiller, Robert. A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 1974-.

AUTHOR BIBLIOGRAPHIES

* AMERICAN WRITERS.
* BRITISH WRITERS.
Woodress, James. EIGHT AMERICAN AUTHORS: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND CRITICISM.

GENRE BIBLIOGRAPHIES
The Novel | The Short Story | Poetry | Drama | Linguistics

The novel

Beasley, Jerry C. ENGLISH FICTION, 1660-1800. 1978.
Bell, Inglish, and Donald Baird. THE ENGLISH NOVEL, 1578-1956: A CHECKLIST OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRITICISMS. 1974.
Block, Andrew. THE ENGLISH NOVEL 1740-1850... New and Rev. Ed., 1967.
Cassis, A.F. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL CRITICISM. 1977.
Dyson, A.E. THE ENGLISH NOVEL: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES. (bibliographic essays on major novelists of the 18th and 19th centuries)
Gerstenberger and Hendrick. THE AMERICAN NOVEL, 1789-1959.
Palmer, Helen, and Anne Dyson. ENGLISH NOVEL EXPLICATION: CRITICISMS TO 1972. Supplement I, by Abernathy, 1976. (criticism 1958- 1974).
Rice, Thomas J. ENGLISH FICTION , 1900-1950. 2 vols. 1979-80.
Stanton, Robert J. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN BRITISH NOVELISTS. 2 vols. 1978.
Watt, Ian. THE BRITISH NOVEL: SCOTT THROUGH HARDY. 1973.
Wiley. THE BRITISH NOVEL: CONRAD TO THE PRESENT. 1973. (continuation to Watt's THE BRITISH NOVEL)

The Short Story

MAGILL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY CRITICISM. 4 vols.
SHORT FICTION CRITICISM. 1960. (on works written 1800-1958; criticism written 1925-1959)
Walker. Warren. TWENTIETH CENTURY SHORT STORY EXPLICATION: INTERPRETATIONS 1900-1975 OF SHORT FICTION SINCE 1800. 3rd ed., 1977.

Poetry

Altieri, Charles. MODERN POETRY. 1979. (lists poet's works, other primary materials, essay collections, and books and essays)
Cline, Gloria S. and Baker, Jeffrey A. AN INDEX TO CRITICISM OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY. 1973.
Dyson, A.E. ENGLISH POETRY: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES. 1971
Kuntz, Joseph. POETRY EXPLICATION: A CHECKLIST OF CRITICISM SINCE 1925 OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POEMS PAST AND PRESENT. 1980.

Drama

Adelman, Irving. MODERN DRAMA. 1964. (pre-1965 drama; also some theatrical reviews listed)
Breed, Paul. DRAMATIC CRITICISM INDEX. 1972. (includes still- performed 19th century playwrights and twentieth century playwrights)
Carpenter, Charles. MODERN DRAMA SCHOLARSHIP AND CRITICISM, 1966-80. 1986-.
Coleman, Arthur. DRAMA CRITICISM. 2 vols. (I-American and English Plays, ariticles 1940-64; II-Classical and European plays)
Wells, Stanley. ENGLISH DRAMA (EXCLUDING SHAKEPEARE): SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES. 1975.

Linguistics

Allen, Harold B. LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LINGUISTICS. Goldentree Bibliographies, 1966.

LITERARY PERIODS: ENGLISH LITERATURE
Old English | Middle English | Chaucer | Arthurian | Renaissance

17th Century | 18th Century | Romantic | 19th Century | 20th Century

Old English

Bonser, Wilfrid. AN ANGLO-SAXON AND CELTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY, 450-1087. 2 vols. 1957. (history, geography, religion, etc., of the period)
OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER, 1968-. "The Year's Work in Old English Studies" (1967-) and "Old English Bibliography" (1969-)
Whitelock, Dorothy. CHANGING CURRENTS IN ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES: AN INAUGURAL LECTURE. 1958.
Robinson, F.C. OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1970.
* Zesmer, David M. GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM BEOWULF THROUGH CHAUCER AND MEDIEVAL DRAMA. 1961.

Middle English

Bethurum, Dorothy. CRITICAL APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE. 1960. Fisher, John. THE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE OF WESTERN EUROPE; A REVIEW OF RESEARCH, MAILY 1930-1960. 1966. (state of studies discussions; essays on French, German, Old Norse, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Celtic)
Loomis, Roger S. ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: A COLLABORATIVE HISTORY. 1959.
Matthews, Williams. OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 1968.
PROGRESS OF MEDIEVAL AND REVAISSANCE STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 1923-. (BIENNIAL)
Renwick, William, and Harold Orton. THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE TO SKELTON, 1509. 1940. (lists primary works, criticism, translations, and author information)
Severs, J. Burke. MANUAL OF THE WRITINGS IN MIDDLE ENGLISH 1050-1500. (evaluative commentary on scholarship and criticism; bibliography; detailed and analytical table of contents). Supercedes John Wells, A MANUAL OF THE WRITINGS IN MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1919-52.
Stratman, Carl. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL DRAMA. 2 vols. 2nd ed., 1972.

Chaucer

Baugh, Albert C. CHAUCER. THE GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 1968. (includes bibliographical surveys of scholarship and reference works)
Crawford, William R. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHAUCER 1954-1963. 1967. (introductory essay "New Directions in Chaucer Criticism")
Griffith, Dudley. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHAUCER 1908-53. 1955.
Hammond, Eleanor. CHAUCER: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MANUAL. 198.

Arthurian

"A bibliography of Critical Arthurian Literature" (1936-62). Annually in MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, 1940-63. Followed by Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 1949-.
Loomis, Roger S. ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: A COLLABORATIVE HISTORY. 1959.

Renaissance

Bergeron, David. SHAKESPEARE: A STUDY AND RESEARCH GUIDE. (glh)
Livesay, John L. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: SKELTON THROUGH HOOKER. 1968.
"Literature of the Renaissance, 1923-." STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY. 1923-.
PROGRESS OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Bulletin. 1923-.
* Ribner, Irving. TUDOR AND STUART DRAMA. 1966.
"Recent Studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. 1961-. Spring issue.
"Shakespeare: an Annotated Bibliography, 1949-." SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY. 1950-.
Seymour-Smith, Martin. CUMULATIVE INDEX TO SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY. vols. 1-15, 1950-64. 1969.
Smith, Gordon R. A CLASSIFIED SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1936- 1958. 1963.
SPENSER NEWSLETTER. (glh)
* "The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies, 1946/47-" SHAKESPEARE SURVEY. 1948-.

17th Century

Barker, Arthur. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: BACON THROUGH MARVELL. GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 1979. (glh)
Beasley. ENGLISH FICTION, 1660-1800.
Bond. THE AGE OF DRYDEN. 1970.
Fordyce, Rachel. CAROLINE DRAMA: A BIBIOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF CRITICISM. 1978. (annotated bibliography)
Hanford, James H., and Charles W. Crupi. MILTON. GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 1966.
Link. ENGLISH DRAMA. 1660-1800.

18th Century

Bond. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. GOLDENTREE BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 1975.
Clifford, James L. JOHNSONIAN STUDIES, 187-1950: A SURVEY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1951. SUPPLEMENT: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JOHNSONIAN STUDIES, 1950-1960. With Addition and Corrections, 196-.
"English Literature, 1660-1800" A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN STUDIES COMPILED FOR PHILOGOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1926-1960. 1950-62. Continued in PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1961-.
JOHNSONIAN NEWS LETTER. Vol. 1-. Dec. 1940-.
"Recent Studies in Restoration and 18th Century." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE; 1500-1900. Summer issue. 1961-.
Tobin, James E. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ITS CULTURAL BACKGROUND; A BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1939.

Romantic

"Current Bibliography." KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL. Vol. 1-. 1952-.
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY, 1800-1825.
Fogle, Richard H. ROMANTIC POETS AND PROSE WRITERS. Goldentree Bibliographies, 1956.
Hayden, John O. THE ROMANTIC REVIEWERS, 1802-1824. 1968.
Houtchens, Carolyn W., and Lawrence Houtchens. THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS AND ESSAYISTS: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND CRITICISM. Rev. ed., 1966.
Jordan, Frank. THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS, A REVIEW OF RESEARCH. Rev. Ed., 1956.
"The Romantic Movement; a Selective and Critical Bibliography." ELH, A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY, 1937-1949. Continued in PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1950-64, and ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES, 1965-.
Summers, Montague. A GOTHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1941.

19th Century

Buckley, Jerome H. VICTORIAN POETS AND PROSE WRITERS. Goldentree Bibliographies, 1966.
Delaura, David. VICTORIAN PROSE: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH. 1973. (bibliographical essays; detailed topical table of contents)
Faverty, Frederic E. THE VICTORIAN POETS: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH. 2nd ed., 1968.
Ford, George. VICTORIAN FICTION : A SECOND GUIDE TO RESEARCH. 1978.
"Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. Autumn issue. 1961-.
Slack, Robert C. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE FOR...1955-1964. 1967. (reprinted from MODERN PHILOLOGY (1956-57 and VICTORIAN STUDIES (1958-1965))
Stevenson, Lionel. VICTORIAN FICTION; A GUIDE TO RESEARCH. 1964.
Templeman, William. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE FOR...1932-1944. 1945. (reprinted from May issues of MODERN PHILOLOGY)
"Victorian Bibliography." VICTORIAN STUDIES. Vol. 1-. June 1958-. Supplements Templeman, Wright and Slcak; also MODERN PHILOLOGY, 1933-57.
Wright, Austin. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE FOR...1945-1954. 1956. (Reprinted from MODERN PHILOLOGY)

20th Century

Adelman, Irving, and Rita Dworkin. THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL: A CHECKLIST OF CRITICAL LITERATURE ON THE BIRITSH AND AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945. 1972.
Coleman, Authur, and Gary Tyler. DRAMA CRITICISM; A CHECKLIST OF INTERPRETATION SINCE 1940 OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PLAYS. 1966.
"Current Bibliography of Twentieth Century Literature, 1954-." TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE: A SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL JOURNAL. 1955-56.
"Modern Drama: A Selective Bibliography of Works Published in English (1959-)." Annually in MODERN DRAMA, 1960-.
Temple, Ruth Z., and M. Tucker. TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: A REFERENCE GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1968.

GENERAL SERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

* MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON THE MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES. 1921-. (MLA). (OU has on CD-Rom)
MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. Annual Bibliography of English Language and LIterature. 1920. (MHRA)
Woodress, James. AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP. 1955-.
YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES. 1919-. (YWES)

TOPICAL SERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN JOURNALS
English literature | American literature | Other specialized literature

English Literature

"A Bibliography of Critical Arthurian Literature" (1936-62). Annually in MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, 1940-63. Followed by Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian society, 1949-.
OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER, 1968-. "The Year's Work in Old English Studies" (1967-) and "Old English Bibliography" (1969-)
"Literature of the Renaissance, 1923-." STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY. 1923-.
"English Renaissance." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500- 1900. . 1961-. Winter issue.
"Recent Studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. 1961-. Spring issue.
"Shakespeare: an Annotated Bibliography, 1949-." SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY. 1950-.
"The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies." SHAKESPEARE SURVEY. 1948-.
"Recent Studies in Restoration and 18th Century." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE; 1500-1900. Summer issue. 1961-.
"The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography." PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1926-.
"Current Bibliography." KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL. 1952-.
"The Romantic Movement; a Selective and Critical Bibliography." ELH, A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY, 1937- 1949. Continued in PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1950-64, and ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES, 1965-.
"Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. Autumn issue. 1961-.
"Victorian Bibliography." VICTORIAN STUDIES. June 1958-. Supplements Templeman, Wright and Slcak; also MODERN PHILOLOGY, 1933-57.
"Current Bibliography of Twentieth Century Literature, 1954-." TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE: A SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL JOURNAL. 1955-56.

American Literature

"Articles in American Studies." Annually in AMERICAN QUARTERLY. 1954-.
"Articles on American Literature Appearing in Current Periodicals." Quarterly in AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1929-.

Other Specialized Literature

"Selective Current Bibliography for Aesthetics and Related Fields." Annually in JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM. 1945-.
"Annual Bibligraphy of Folklore." in JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE. 1887-1964.
"Modern Drama: A Selective Bibliography of Works Published in English (1959-)." Annually in MODERN DRAMA, 1960-.
"Annual Bibliography of Short Fiction Interpretation." Annually in STUDIES IN SHORT FICTION, 1964-.

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER, 1968-. "The Year's Work in Old English Studies" (1967-) and "Old English Bibliography" (1969-)
"A Bibliography of Critical Arthurian Literature" (1936-62). Annually in MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, 1940-63. Followed by Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian society, 1949-.
"Literature of the Renaissance, 1923-." STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY, vol. 20-. 1923-.
"Recent Studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. vol. 1-. 1961. Spring issue.
"Shakespeare: an Annotated Bibliography, 1949-." SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY. vol. 1-. 1950.
"The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies, 1946/47-" SHAKESPEARE SURVEY. Vol. 1-. 1948-.
"Recent Studies in Restoration and 18th Century." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE; 1500-1900. Summer issue, vol. 1-. 1961-.
"Current Bibliography." KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL. Vol. 1-. 1952-.
"The Romantic Movement; a Selective and Critical Bibliography." ELH, A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY, 1937-1949. Continued in PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1950-64, and ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES, 1965-.
"Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century English Literature." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1500-1900. Autumn issue, vol. 1-. 1961-.
"Victorian Bibliography." VICTORIAN STUDIES. Vol. 1-. June 1958-. Supplments Templeman, Wright and Slcak; also MODERN PHILOLOGY, 1933-57.
"Current Bibliography of Twentieth Century Literature, 1954-." TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE: A SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL JOURNAL. 1955-56.
"Modern Drama: A Selective Bibliography of Works Published in English (1959-)." Annually in MODERN DRAMA, 1960-.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES
General | Literary

General

Besterman, Theodore. A WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 5 vols. 4th ed., rev., 1965-66.
Walford, Arthur J. CONCISE GUIDE TO REFERENCE MATERIAL. 1 vol. 1981.
Winchell, Constance. GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS. 8th ed., 1967. Supplement.

Literary

Altick, Richard. "Finding Material." CHAPTER 5 OF THE ART OF LITERARY RESEARCH (1963), pp. 129-51.
Altick, R. D., and Andrew Wright. SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRPAHY FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. 2nd ed., 1964.
Besterman, Theodore. LITERATURE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN: A BIBLIGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 1971.
Bond, Donald F. A REFERENCE GUIDE TO ENGLISH STUDIES. 1962.
Fisher, John. "Serial Bibliographies in the Modern Languages and Literatures." PMLA, 66 (1951), 138-53. (lists 59 bibliographies)
Howard-Hill, T. H. INDEX TO BRITISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. 2 vols. 1969, 1971.
Kennedy, Arthur, and Donald Sands. A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH. 4th ed., 1960.
Nilon, Charles. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1970-.
Preminger, Alex. "English Literature." LIBRARY TRENDS, 15 (1966-67), 522-49.
Spargo, John. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MANUAL FOR STUDENTS. 3rd ed., 1956.
Vitale, Philip. BASIC TOOLS OF RESEARCH; AN ANNOTATED GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH. 1963.