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Reference Sources
Title
Location
St. James guide to horror, ghost & gothic writers PN3435 .S72 1998
A Brontë companion : literary assessment, background, and reference PR4168 .P5 1975b
A Mary Shelley encyclopedia PR5398.A2 M67 2003
The Oxford companion to the Brontës PR4167.A3 O94 2003
Bram Stoker's Dracula : a documentary volume PN451 .D5 v.304
An analytical index to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with a sketch of his life PS1880.O4 1967
A concordance of the poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe PS2645 .B6
A concordance to the five novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne PS1895 .B9
Edgar Allan Poe, A to Z : the essential reference to his life and work PS2630 .S68 2001
A glossary of Faulkner's South PS3511.A86 Z49 1976
Nathaniel Hawthorne : a documentary volume PN451 .D5 v.269
A Nathaniel Hawthorne encyclopedia PS1880 .G3 1991
The Poe encyclopedia PS2630 .P58 1997
William Faulkner A to Z : the essential reference to his life and work PS3511.A86 Z459 2002
The William Faulkner collection at West Point and the Faulkner concordances PS3511.A86 W57
William Faulkner's characters : an index to the published and unpublished fiction PS3511.A86 Z7816
A Henry James encyclopedia PS2122 .G35 1989
The encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock PN1998.3.H58 L45 2002
The Toni Morrison encyclopedia PS3563.O8749 Z913 2003

Bibliographies
Title
Location
Ann Radcliffe : a bio-bibliography PR5204 .R64 1996
Crime fiction, 1749-1980 : a comprehensive bibliography PR830.D4 H82 1984
The eighteenth-century Gothic novel : an annotated bibliography of criticism and selected texts Z2014.F5 M3
The gothic's gothic : study aids to the tradition of the tale of terror PN3435 .F57 1988
Guide to the Gothic : an annotated bibliography of criticism Z5917.G66 F7 1984
Women's gothic and romantic fiction : a reference guide PS374.W6 M8
A Brontë bibliography Z8122 .Y3
Charlotte and Emily Brontë : a reference guide Z8122 .C78 1982
Bibliographies of twelve Victorian authors Z2013 .E33 1968
Charles Brockden Brown, a reference guide Z8123.585 .P37
The prose writings of Robert Louis Stevenson : a guide PR5493 .S9 1980
A bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe Z8699 .H44 1943
A bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Z8393 .B85
Edgar Allan Poe; a bibliography of criticism, 1827-1967 Z8699 .D34
Edgar Allan Poe: an annotated bibliography of books and articles in English, 1827-1973 Z8699 .H94
Faulkner, an annotated checklist of recent criticism Z8288 .B38 1983
Hawthorne, Melville, Stephen Crane; a critical bibliography Z1225 .G76
Images of Poe's works : a comprehensive descriptive catalogue of illustrations PS2631 .P64 1989
Nathaniel Hawthorne : a descriptive bibliography Z8393 .C56
William Faulkner, a bibliography of secondary works Z8288 .R53
William Faulkner: an annotated checklist of criticism Z8288 .B38
William Faulkner's women characters : an annotated bibliography of criticism, 1930-1983 Z8288 .S9 1985
A bibliography of Henry James Z8447 .E3
Henry James, 1960-1974 : a reference guide Z8447 .S38
Henry James, 1917-1959 : a reference guide Z8447 .M32
Henry James, 1866-1916, a reference guide Z8447 .T39 1982
Henry James : a bibliography of criticism, 1975-1981 Z8447 .B82 1983
Henry James : a bibliography of secondary works Z8447 .R5

Books
To find books of criticism on Gothic authors in the Furman Library, select SUBJECT from the search menu in ALCUIN and type the author's last name then first name. From the resulting list of subject headings, select the ones that say "criticism and interpretation." You can also try a keyword search for your author, book title, and main concepts or theories about the work. For more on searching the catalog, see Searching ALCUIN.
WorldCat (for finding books at other libraries available for ILL)



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
The fall of the House of Usher
The Edgar Allan Poe audio collection [sound recording]
Frankenstein: The Making of the Monster
The Bride of Frankenstein
Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster
The Brontës [Media CD-ROM]
Jane Eyre [Book on Cassette]
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Heiress
Dial M for Murder
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window [videorecording] PN1997 .R42 2001
The birds [videorecording] PN1997 .B476 1999
The Lady vanishes [videorecording] PN1997 .L32 1991
North by Northwest [videorecording] PN1997 .N65 1996
Notorious [videorecording] PN1997 .N676 1992
Psycho [videorecording] PN1997 .P79 1999
Rebecca [videorecording] PR6054.U52 R42 1988
Vertigo [videorecording] PN1997 .V47 1995
The bluest eye [sound recording] PS3563.O8749 B55 1994
Love [sound recording] PS3563.O8749 L68 2003b
Sula [sound recording] PS3563.O8749 S94 1997
Toni Morrison [videorecording] : a conversation with Toni Morrison PS3563.O8749 Z9 1992
Toni Morrison [videorecording] : a writer's work
Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt
Tell about the South: voices in black & white
The Brontës of Haworth


Web Resources
Note: The web sites below were recommended by the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica or Infomine. I have not had time to examine them closely yet. Proceed with caution. --MF

International Gothic Association

Recommended by Dr. Shackelford.

Literary Gothic

(Recommended by EB, Infomine and Choice Reviews)

"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

(Recommended by Infomine, and with hesitations as to organization by Choice Reviews)

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.
A Poe Webliography:
Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet
A critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic texts, HTML-encoded texts, hypertexts, secondary works, commentaries, and indexes. Created by Heyward Ehrlich at Rutgers University.

The Gothic: Materials for Study

(Recommended by Infomine and Choice Reviews)

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


This page is maintained by Mary Fairbairn .

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