The following lists include selections of key titles from the library's various print and online collections. For a more complete picture of the entire collection, you can do one of the following:
Bloom's How to Write about William Faulkner
by Anna Priddy and Harold Bloom
The Historical Novel
by Jerome De Groot
Shakespeare: The Basics
by Sean McEvoy
Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature
by Christina Alt
This list compiles some of the library's most trusted sources of literary criticism. To find additional information using the library catalog, try adding the phrase "criticism and interpretation" to your search topic.
To find the most up-to-date critical articles, please consult this guide's Articles/Journals tab for a list of relevant databases.
Search our catalog here or check out these reference and other books on literature.
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction by 
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies by 
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters by 
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature by 
Encyclopedia of Southern Literature by 
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature by 
Holocaust Literature by 
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : Literature by 
Reference Guide to Short Fiction by 
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century by 
The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present by 
The Reader's Companion to World Literature by 
Timetables of World Literature by 
World Literature and Its Times by Search our catalog here or check out these books about literature.
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer by 
A Family of Readers: The book lover's guide to children's and young adult literature by 
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition by 
A Place Like Mississippi by 
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by 
Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: Relative values by 
World Literature and Its Place in General Culture (Classic Reprint) by 
