Literary Research Guide/The Research Process/Secondary Step 1

by James L. Harner

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Step 1: Consult bibliographies of bibliographies to identify existing bibliographies of secondary works associated with an author or topic.

General Bibliographies of Bibliographies

• Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
• Weiner, Literary Criticism Index (D170)
• Bibliographic Index (D145)
• Wortman, Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures (G325)
• Besterman, World Bibliography of Bibliographies (D155)

Specialized Bibliographies of Bibliographies

American Literature

• Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
• Black Access (Q3715)
• McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Fiction (Q4265)
• McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Poetry (Q4315)

Book Review Indexes

• Gray, Guide to Book Review Citations (G410)

Canadian Literature

• Ingles, Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies (R4585)

Caribbean-Area Literatures

• Jordan, English-Speaking Caribbean (R4785)

Dictionaries

• Cop, Babel Unravelled (U6018)

Dissertations and Theses

• Reynolds, Guide to Theses and Dissertations (H455)

English Literature

• Howard-Hill, Index to British Literary Bibliography (M1355)
• Bracken, Reference Works in British and American Literature (M1357)
• Lund, Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature (M2220)
• Mellown, Bibliographies of Twentieth Century British Poets, Novelists, and Dramatists (M2760)

Festschriften

• “Festschriften Bibliographies and Indexes” (D165)

Fiction

• Hartman and Drost, Themes and Settings in Fiction (L833)
• McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Fiction (Q4265)

Film

• Wulff, Bibliography of Film Bibliographies (U5755)

History

• Henige, Serial Bibliographies and Abstracts in History (U6490)

Irish Literature

• Eager, Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material (N2930)

Library Catalogs

• Downs, American, British, and Irish Library Resources (E215)
• Nelson, Guide to Published Library Catalogs (E220)

Medieval Studies

• Rouse, Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies (M1805)

National Bibliographies

• Domay, Bibliographie der nationalen Bibliographien (D180)

Periodical Indexes

• Balay, Early Periodical Indexes (G327)

Poetry

• McPheron, Bibliography of Contemporary American Poetry (Q4315)

Serial Bibliographies

• Bibliographic Index (D145)
• Wortman, Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Modern Literatures (G325)
• Rouse, Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies (M1805)

Women’s Studies

• Nelson, Guide to Published Library Catalogs (E220)
• Ballou, Women: A Bibliography of Bibliographies (U6585)

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