The Literature books are located in the P - PZ area on the third floor of the library. You may browse the collection or use the library catalog to locate specific titles and subjects. You should also check the REF P-PZ shelves of the Reference Literature collection located on the Library's first floor.
Use the HELIN Library Catalog for locating books in the RWU Library. HELIN is the shared catalog of nine Rhode Island academic libraries. You may request books from any HELIN library by using the online Request link found at the top of the book information screen.
HELIN Library Catalog - The combined library catalog of RWU, PC, URI, RIC, CCRI, Salve, JWU, Bryant, Wheaton, and Brown
InRhode - to find books in both the HELIN Library Catalog and Brown's Library Catalog, Josiah
Link to a listing of the library's databases relevant to Literature. Many of these databases will provide full-text articles.
Link to RWU e-journal subscriptions. Search by title or subject.
Link to online reference resources such as encyclopedias, directories, dictionaries, etc.
Print Reference titles can be located at REF P - PZ
- General Resources:
- BUBL Link: Literature and Rhetoric
- Department English Links from Brock University
- Literary Resources on the Net
- Created by Jack Lynch. All inclusive site with links arranged by time period, subject, and national literatures.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection
- Poetry Portal
- English and American Literature Resource:
- English Literature
- Voice of the Shuttle. Prepared by Alan Liu, Department of English, University of Callifornia, Santa Barbara.
- Eighteenth-Century English Novel Research Guide
- Literature Resources from MIT
- Authors:
- 19th Century British and Irish Authors
- American Society of Jane Austen Scholars
- Anne Bronte
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- The Bronte Sisters WebJane Austen Information Page
- Charles Dickens Page
- Charlotte Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte on the Victorian Web
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
- The Dickens Page
- The Dickens Project
- Dickens on the Victorian Web
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page
- LitGothic
- Native American Authors
- Willa Cather Electronic Archive
- Thomas Hardy Society of North America
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- Yahoo Authors
Literary Genres and Time Periods
- Arthurian Sites:
- Arthuriana
- Camelot Project
- Legends
- Myths and Legends
- Medieval:
- Medieval Feminist Index
- Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and genre during the Middle Ages.
- Gothic:
- The Literary Gothic
- The Sickly Taper
- Renaissance:
- Literary Resources - Renaissance
- Voice of the Shuttle - Renaissance - 17th Century
- Voice of the Shuttle - Renaissance - 18th Century
- Romanticism:
- Literary Resources on the Net: Romantic
- Romantic Circles
- Romantic Chronology
- Romantic Links, Electronic Texts, Home Pages, and Syllabi
- Romantism on the Net
- Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics
- Victorian:
- The Victorian Web