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This guide presents a selection of the most authoritative, informative and useful Web sites for today's college and university American literature students and scholars. Nearly 300 American authors whose works are features in the most recent editions of widely used literature anthologies are included in this volume. A chronological arrangement parallels that of popular anthologies and most course approaches. For each author, concise lists of the best Web sites are provided, as well as traditional printed resources, including biographies and criticisms, dictionaries and handbooks, indexes and concordances, journals, and bibliographies. This guide only covers frequently anthologized authors who are the subjects of "good" Web sites; students who want to identify Web sites and references for American authors not found in this volume should consult the resources listed in the sections of "Frequently Cited Web Sites" and "Frequently Cited References." An alphabetical list of authors with page numbers is included at the end of the document. (AEF)

This work identifies, describes, and evaluates the most important and useful reference materials based on British and North American authors and their writings. Designed to serve the needs of literary researchers of all degrees of sophistication, this book offers modern researchers and students of English literature a thorough review of reference resources available through 1996 and part of 1997. Updating and expanding on its previous edition, the book covers a substantial portion of the currently available reference sources--with entries for more than 1,500 resources on individual writers, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, handbooks, and electronic resources. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author name (or by title if author is unknown) and works are classified and grouped according to type. Descriptive annotations offer detailed assessments of the works, noting special features and often comparing them to similar titles. Numerous cross-references are given. A chronological appendix lists authors consecutively with dates of birth and death, and a nationality appendix groups them according to their country of primary residence. An author/title and a detailed subject index conclude the work. (AEF)