A Reference Guide for English Studies - Softcover

Marcuse, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520079922 ISBN 13: 9780520079922

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The "Reference Guide" covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.

About this title

From Library Journal

This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature." Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.
- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Thorough in its annotations, usually judicious in selection and evaluation. . . . A trustworthy companion for the novice as well as for the advanced scholar."--"Literary Research Guide

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520079922
• ISBN 13: 9780520079922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 862