# Literary Research Guide/The Research Process/Printed Step 1

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Step 1: Consult bibliographies of bibliographies and guides to research methods to identify existing bibliographies of primary or secondary works associated with an author or topic.

### General Bibliographies of Bibliographies and Guides to Research Methods

* Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
* Weiner, Literary Criticism Index (D170)
* Bibliographic Index (D145)
* Wortman, Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures (G325)
* Balay, Early Periodical Indexes (G327)
* Besterman, World Bibliography of Bibliographies (D155)

### Specialized Bibliographies of Bibliographies and Guides to Research Methods
#### American Literature

* Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
* Black Access (Q3715)
* Courtney, Literary Research and the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism (Q3995)
* Stein, Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period (Q4100)
* Matuozzi and Lindsay, Literary Research and the American Modernist Era (Q4210)
* McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Fiction (Q4265)
* McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Poetry (Q4315)

#### Australian Literature

* Christenberry and Courtney, Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources (R4435)

#### Canadian Literature

* Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies / Bibliographie des bibliographies canadiennes (R4585)

#### Caribbean-Area Literatures

* Jordan, English-Speaking Caribbean (R4785)

#### Children’s Literature

* Grenby and Reynolds, Children’s Literature Studies: A Research Handbook (U5435)

#### English Literature

* Howard-Hill, Index to British Literary Bibliography (M1355)
* Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
* Bowers and Keeran, Literary Research and the British Renaissance (M1960)
* Lund, Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature (M2220)
* Van Vuuren, Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages (M2447)
* Lewis, Literary Research and British Modernism (M2745)
* Mellown, Bibliographies of Twentieth Century British Poets, Novelists, and Dramatists (M2760)

#### Festschriften

* “Festschriften Bibliographies and Indexes” (D165)

#### Fiction

* Themes and Settings in Fiction (L833)
* McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Fiction (Q4265)

#### Film

* Bibliography of Film Bibliographies (U5755)

#### Irish Literature

* Greg. Literary Research and Irish Literature (N2905)
* Eager, Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material (N2930)

#### Medieval Studies

* Rouse, Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies (M1805)

#### New Zealand Literature

* Christenberry and Courtney, Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources (R4435)

#### Periodicals

* Marshall and Hume, “The Joys, Possibilities, and Perils of the British Library’s Digital Burney Newspapers Collection” (K610)

#### Poetry

* McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Poetry (Q4315)

#### Postcolonial Literature

* Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English (R4350)

#### Religion and Literature

* Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (U6325)

#### Women’s Studies

* Nelson, Guide to Published Library Catalogs (E220)
* Women: A Bibliography of Bibliographies (U6585)
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