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Reference Sources
Title
Location
Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia Reference Collection
DA 550 .V53 1988
Victorian Life and Victorian Fiction Reference Collection
PR 872 .M2
St. James guide to horror, ghost & gothic writers Reference Collection
PN3435 .S72 1998
A Brontë companion : literary assessment, background, and reference Reference Collection
PR4168 .P5 1975b
A Mary Shelley encyclopedia

Reference Collection
PR5398.A2 M67 2003

The Oxford companion to the Brontës Reference Collection
PR4167.A3 O94 2003
The Toni Morrison encyclopedia Reference Collection
PS3563.O8749 Z913 2003

Bibliographies and Guides
Title
Location
Ann Radcliffe : a bio-bibliography Reference Collection
PR5204 .R64 1996
The gothic's gothic : study aids to the tradition of the tale of terror Reference Collection
PN3435 .F57 1988
Guide to the Gothic : an annotated bibliography of criticism Reference Collection
Z5917.G66 F7 1984
Women's gothic and romantic fiction : a reference guide

Reference Collection
PS374.W6 M8

A Brontë bibliography Reference Collection
Z8122 .Y3
Charlotte and Emily Brontë : a reference guide Reference Collection
Z8122 .C78 1982
Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature: Illustration, Film, TV, Radio and the Internet Reference Collection
PN56.F34 F35 1999
Gothic Novels of the Twentieth Century: An Annotated Bibliography General Collection
PS379 .R32 1979
Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide General Collection
PR830.T3 H67 1981


Critical Works
Title
Location
*Baldick, Chris. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987. General Collection
PR5397.F73 B3 1990

*Botting, Fred. Gothic. London, Routledge, 1996.

General Collection
PR830.T3 B68 1996

*---, ed. The Gothic. Rochester, Boydell, 2001.

General Collection
PR830.T3 G67 2001

*Carpenter, Lynette and Wendy K Kolmar, eds. Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women. Knoxville, U of Tennessee P, 1991.

General Collection
PS374.G45 H38 1991

*Cotton, Daniel. The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

General Collection
PR778.A38 C68 1985

*DeLamotte, Eugenia C. Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic. Durham, Duke UP, 1990.

General Collection
PR868.T3 D45 1990

Docherty, Brian, ed. American Horror Fiction. New York, St. Martin’s P, 1989.

General Collection
PS648.H6 A48 1990

Grixti, Joseh. Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1989.

General Collection
PN3435 .G75 1989

Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.

General Collection
PR830.T3 H38 1987

Lloyd-Smith, Allan Gardner. Uncanny American Fiction: Medusa’s Face. New York: St. Martin’s P, 1989.

General Collection
PS379.R48 L56 1989

Roberts, Bette. The Gothic Romance: Its Appeal to Women Writers and Readers in Late-Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Arno, 1980.

General Collection
PR858.T3 R6 1980

*Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Coherence of Gothic Conventions. New York: Methuen, 1986.

General Collection
PR868.T3 S35 1986

*Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. New York, Penguin, 1985.

General Collection
RC451.4.W6 S56 1985

Varma, Dvendra. The Gothic Flame. New York: Russell and Russell, 1966.

General Collection
PR830.T3 V3 1966

*Varnado, S. L. Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1987.

General Collection
PR830.S85 V37 1987

*Voller, Jack G. The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1994.

General Collection
PR457 .V65 1994

*Williams, Anne. Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

General Collection
PR448.G6 W55 1995
*Wilt, Judith. Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, and Lawrence. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. General Collection
PR830.T3 W5

Title
Description
Modern Language Association Bibliography The index to literary criticism in scholarly journals and books. Coverage is from 1963-Present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index A specialized tool for researchers to find who has been cited in scholarly works and by whom.
LION (Literature Online) Literature Online includes literary criticism and reviews in over 100 full text journals.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text A general index for research in the humanities.
Literary Index Combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Literary Index provides quick and easy access to 40 of our literary series including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Click here for Titles Indexed.
Oxford English Dictionary The definitive dictionary of the English Language, including comprehensive etymologies, first date of usage noted by excerpt from attributed author.


Videos/Multimedia Items
Frankenstein: The Making of the Monster
The Brontës [Media CD-ROM]
Jane Eyre [Book on Cassette]
The Yellow Wallpaper
Rebecca
Toni Morrison: A Conversation with Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: A Writer's Work
The Brontës of Haworth


Web Resources
International Gothic Association Provides links to websites on gothic authors and literature recommended by the International Gothic Association

Literary Gothic

"A Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, classic Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20."
My Hideous Progeny:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Information about Mary Shelley's  life, her family, her friends and her novels.  A large section of this web site is devoted to Frankenstein, offering a summary, a title explanation, character descriptions and information about the genre of Gothic literature. The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format.

Gothic Literature Page

Devoted to study of the Gothic fiction in England from 1764 to 1840, The Gothic Literature Page is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of Gothic resources available on the web.
Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Links to texts and criticism from Martin Irvine at Georgetown Univeristy.

The Gothic: Materials for Study

Contains sections on Individual and Social Psychologies of the Gothic,  The Female Gothic, The Gothic and the  Supernatural,  The Sublime and the Domestic, and Gothic Drama


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