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LITERATURE

• Encyclopedias, Bibliographies & Web Sites:
  General European or World Literature | By Country/Region
• Article Databases & Indexes

Materials are located in the YRL Reference Reading Room unless otherwise indicated.

Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, & Web Sites: Literature

General European | France | Germany | Italy | Russia & Slavic
Scandinavia | Spain & Portugal

General European or World Literature

• The continental novel; a checklist of criticism in English, 1900-1966. [Ref Desk Z 5916 .K214c] and 1967-1980 [Ref Desk Z 5916 .F57 1983]
• Cyclopedia of world authors. [Ref Desk PN 451 .M36 1997]
• Dictionnaire universel des littératures. [PN 41 .D43 1994]
• Dizionario letterario Bompiani delle opere e dei personaggi di tutti i tempi e di tutte le letterature. [PN 41 .D64]
• Electronic text collections in Western European literature. (from WESSWEB)
• An Encyclopedia of continental women writers [PN 481 .E5 1991]
• Encyclopedia of literary translation into English. [PN 241 .E43 2000]
• Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century. [PN 771 .E5 1999]
• European authors, 1000-1900; a biographical dictionary of European literature. [PN 451 .K962e]
• Kindlers neues literatur lexikon. [PN 44 .K55 1988]
• Le nouveau dictionnaire des uvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays / Laffont, Bompiani. [PN 41 .D199 1994]
• The Penguin companion to European literature. [PN 41 .P376 1971 v.2]
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures (Other than English). Alan Liu.
• Western European Literature: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish. Sue Waterman. (from College & Research Libraries News, April 2000)
• World authors 1950-70, with additional vols. through 1995.
  [PN 451 .W674 1996]

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By Country/Region

France | Germany | Italy | Russia & Slavic | Scandinavia | Spain & Portugal

France:

• A critical bibliography of French literature. (Volumes organized by period) [Ref Desk Z 2171 .C11c 1952]
• Dictionnaire des grandes oeuvres de la littérature française.
  [PQ 41 .D53 1992]
• Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. [PQ 41 .D56 1992]
• Guide to French poetry explication / Kathleen Coleman.
  [Ref Desk PQ 401 .C65 1993]
• The New Oxford companion to literature in French.
  [PQ 41 .N49 1995]
• Research and reference guide to French studies / Charles B. Osburn. [Ref Desk Z 2175 .A2O82 1981]

Germany:

• Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon; biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch. [PT 41 .K84d 1968]
• German literature : an annotated reference guide / Uwe K. Faulhaber. [Ref Desk Z 2231 .F38]
• Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945.
  [PT 401 .N48 1997]
• The Oxford companion to German literature.
  [Ref Desk PT 41 .G183o 1997]

Italy:

• The Cambridge history of Italian literature / eds. Peter Brand and Lino Pertile [Ref Desk PQ 4038 .C35 1999]
• Dictionary of Italian literature / Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, eds. [Ref Desk PQ 4006 .D562]
• Dizionario generale degli autori italiani contemporanei.
  [PQ 4006 .D651]
• Storia della letteratura italiana / ed. Enrico Malato.
  [PQ 4037 .S9 1995]

Russia & Slavic:

• The Cambridge history of Russian literature / ed. Charles A. Moser
  [PG 2951 .C36 1992]
• Handbook of Russian literature / ed. Victor Terras
  [PG 2940 .H29 1985]
• Kratkaia literaturnaia entsiklopediia. [PN 41 .K86]
• The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet literatures / Harry B. Weber, ed. [PG 2940 .M719]
  Vol. 10 has the title: The modern encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian literatures.
• Modern Slavic literatures / Vasa D. Mihailovich. [PG 501 .M72]
• Reference guide to Russian literature. [PG 2940 .R43 1998]
• Russkaia literatura XX veka (Entsiklopediia literaturnikh).
  [PG 3020.5 .C5R87 1998]
• Russkie pisateli: biobibliograficheskii slovar' / P.A. Nikolaeva, ed.
  [PG 2991 .R87 1990]
• Guide to Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Information Resources
  

Scandinavia:

• Dictionary of Scandinavian literature / Virpi Zuck, ed.
  [PT 7063 .D5 1990]

Spain and Portugal:

• Dicionário de literatura: literatura portuguesa, literatura brasileira, literatura galega, estilística literária. Jacinto do Prado Coelho, ed.
  [PQ 9006 .D549 1973]
• Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula.
  [Ref Desk PN 849 .S6D54 1993]
• Guide to reference works for the study of the Spanish language and literature and Spanish American literature / Hensley C. Woodbridge.
  [Ref Desk Z 2695 .A2W66 1997]
• The Oxford companion to Spanish literature.
  [Ref Desk PQ 6006 .O983]
• Portuguese language and Luso-Brazilian literature : an annotated guide to selected reference works / Bobby J. Chamberlain.
  [Ref Desk Z 2725 .A2C45 1989]
• Spanish and Portuguese literatures and their times: the Iberian Peninsula / Joyce Moss. [PQ 6041 .M67 2002]
• Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. / Mary Parker, ed. [PQ 6051 .S63 1998]
• Spanish literature, 1500-1700: a bibliography of Golden Age studies in Spanish and English, 1925-1980 / William W. Moseley, et al.
  [Z 2692 .M67 1984]