Online Reference Books
- Oxford Reference Online100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Specialized Dictionaries
A Dictionary of Literary SymbolsCall Number: Hatfield Library Reference PN56.S9 F47 1999ISBN: 0521591287Publication Date: 1999
Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and PhrasesCall Number: Hatfield Library Reference PE1582.A3 O94 1997ISBN: 0198631596Publication Date: 1997
Cassell's Foreign Words and PhrasesCall Number: Hatfield Library Reference PE1582.A3 R66 2000ISBN: 0304350087Publication Date: 2001
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary TheoryCall Number: HAT Reference PN41 .C83 1998ISBN: 0631202714Publication Date: 1998
Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford English DictionaryThe online version of the classic dictionary. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cook books.
Reference Books
Below are key reference books that provide a general overview of a topic or help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data. These sources often include references and lists of further readings.
Encyclopedia of Russian History: From the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-up of the U.S.S.R. / by Call Number: Ref. DK 36 .P39 1993ISBN: 0874366909
Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend by Call Number: Ref. BL 930 .D58 1998ISBN: 1576071308
Handbook of Russian Literature by Call Number: Ref. PG 2940.H29
Humanities and Fine Arts Librarian
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary BiographyISBN: 0787646555Shelved in front of Doreen's office.- Early Modern Russian Writers: Late-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries byCall Number: Ref. PN 771 .D43 v.150
- Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol. Prose byCall Number: Ref. PN 771 .D43 v.198
- Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol. Poetry and Drama byCall Number: Ref. PN 771 .D43 v.205
- Russian Literature in the Age of Realism byCall Number: Ref. PN 771 .D43 v.277
- Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky byCall Number: Ref. PN 771 .D43 v.238