II.B Click here for a hyperlinked Outline of Contents for the entire Bibliography. In addition to the information they give about authors, the articles in these works also include, in most cases, bibliographies of works by and about the author, bibliographies whose citations can carry you into the next stage of your research by listing specific books and articles you might want to locate and read. If your topic takes you out of literary texts and into such fields as history, the history of ideas, philosophy, religious studies, the social sciences, etc., encyclopedic works like those listed below are available. Leonard Unger, ed. This set, like its cousins listed below, consists of relatively lengthy scholarly studies of major authors.
Selective bibliographies list both the works of the author and critical analyses.
M. Thomas Inge et al ., eds.2 vols. Lina Mainiero et al ., eds. Ian Scott-Kilvert, ed. This British counterpart to American Writers , described above, is good for background reading because of the generous scope and scholarly authority of the articles. A Reference Guide .Julio A. Martinez and Francisco A. Lomeli, eds.