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Literature Call Numbers

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AUP Library books are organized by Dewey Decimal Numbers - here are the basic Literature call numbers

800   Literature, rhetoric & criticism
810   American literature in English
820   English & Old English literatures
830   German & related literatures
840   French & related literatures
850   Italian, Romanian & related literatures
860   Spanish & Portuguese literatures
870   Latin & Italic literatures
880   Classical & modern Greek literatures
890   Other literatures

(In more detail)

800   Literature & rhetoric
801   Philosophy & theory
802   Miscellany
803   Dictionaries & encyclopedias
805   Serial publications
806   Organizations
807   Education, research, related topics
808   Rhetoric & collections of literature
809   Literary history & criticism
810   American literature in English
811   Poetry
812   Drama
813   Fiction
814   Essays
815   Speeches
816   Letters
817   Satire & humor
818   Miscellaneous writings
820   English & Old English literatures
821   English poetry
822   English drama
823   English fiction
824   English essays
825   English speeches
826   English letters
827   English satire & humor
828   English miscellaneous writings
828   Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
830   Literatures of Germanic languages
831   German poetry
832   German drama
833   German fiction
834   German essays
835   German speeches
836   German letters
837   German satire & humor
838   German miscellaneous writings
839   Other Germanic literatures
840   Literatures of Romance languages
841   French poetry
842   French drama
843   French fiction
844   French essays
845   French speeches
846   French letters
847   French satire & humor
848   French miscellaneous writings
849   Provencal & Catalan
850   Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic
851   Italian poetry
852   Italian drama
853   Italian fiction
854   Italian essays
855   Italian speeches
856   Italian letters
857   Italian satire & humor
858   Italian miscellaneous writings
859   Romanian & Rhaeto-Romanic
860   Spanish & Portuguese literatures
861   Spanish poetry
862   Spanish drama
863   Spanish fiction
864   Spanish essays
865   Spanish speeches
866   Spanish letters
867   Spanish satire & humor
868   Spanish miscellaneous writings
869   Portuguese
870   Italic literatures Latin
871   Latin poetry
872   Latin dramatic poetry & drama
873   Latin epic poetry & fiction
874   Latin lyric poetry
875   Latin speeches
876   Latin letters
877   Latin satire & humor
878   Latin miscellaneous writings
879   Literatures of other Italic languages
880   Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
881   Classical Greek poetry
882   Classical Greek drama
883   Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction
884   Classical Greek lyric poetry
885   Classical Greek speeches
886   Classical Greek letters
887   Classical Greek satire & humor
888   Classical Greek miscellaneous writings
889   Modern Greek
890   Literatures of other languages
891   East Indo-European & Celtic
892   Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic
893   Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures
894   Ural-Altaic, Paleosiberian, Dravidian
895   Literatures of East & Southeast Asia
896   African literatures

Literature Journals

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American Literary History
"Through essays, position papers, and commentaries, along with reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished diaries, letters, and stories, American Literary History surveys the contested field of US culture four times a year. "
Callaloo
"Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora, publishes original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide."
Comparative Literature Studies
"Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition"
Contemporary Literature
"Contemporary Literature leads the way with in-depth interviews with significant writers, broad-ranging articles written by leaders in the field and book reviews of important critical studies."
Criticism
"Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital."
Diacritics
"journal features a reflexive approach to literary theory and criticism, "Continental" philosophy, and political thought. "
Granta - Print Only
Inventory - Print Only
Music & Literature - Print Only

Book Reviews

Choice Review
Academic book and database reviews
James Joyce Broadsheet - Print Only
London Review of Books
LRB contains book reviews as well as "it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy."
Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts."
New York Review of Books
"With a worldwide circulation of over 135,000, The New York Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire‘s words, as “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.” "
TLS Times Literary Supplement
"Every week, we publish book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems from leading writers from around the world. "

Literature Books

Cambridge Companion - Literature
"Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods."
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
"This collection of eighteenth century books contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800 – 135,000 printed works comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages. "
EEBO - Early English Books Online
"Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. "

Literary Encyclopedia
"The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. All our articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors in our Editorial Board. " Try the Advanced Search
MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd Ed. by Elen C. Carillo
ISBN: 9781603296069
Publication Date: 2022
Offers techniques for assessing the credibility and reliability of online sources of information and understanding types of bias, fake news, disinformation, bots, and algorithms. Gives guidance on how to search the internet effectively, avoid clickbait, and judge one's own biases. Contains readings from outside sources and exercises and student activities.
Oxford English Dictionary by John Simpson (Editor); Edmund Weiner (Editor)
ISBN: 0191958921
"As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books."

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Oxford Reference Online
Hundreds of encyclopedias, companions, and dictionaries.
New Oxford Shakespeare
“The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare’s works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.”
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Literature Databases

Aurora Metro Books This link opens in a new window
With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online This link opens in a new window
The online edition presents Jonson’s complete writings for readers of the twenty-first century, in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It offers a clear sense, afforded by no other previous edition, of the shape, scale, and variety of the entire Jonsonian canon. At the same time, it is the first edition to use digital technology to give a dynamic insight into Jonson’s processes of composition and to reveal the editorial choices which underpin the modernized text.
Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Enjoy access to the finest drama online with access to this digital resource:
- Aurora Metro Books
- BBC Drama Films and Documentaries
- Shakespeare's Globe on Screen (2008-2015)
- Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018)
- The Hollow Crown
Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window

JSTOR Language and Literature

Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
LitFinder This link opens in a new window

Scribner Writers This link opens in a new window
Twayne's Authors This link opens in a new window
Understanding Great Works This link opens in a new window
Understanding Shakespeare This link opens in a new window

Web sites of interest

Chaucer Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window
"The Chaucer Bibliography Online is supported by The University of Texas at San Antonio Library and The New Chaucer Society. This bibliography includes Chaucer studies from 1960 until the present."

France-England: Medieval manuscripts between 700 and 1200
Discover, on the Medieval England and France, 700–1200 website, stunning highlights of illuminated manuscripts of the programme set in their cultural and historical context and explore a range of articles and films.

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