Universal Bibliography/Literature

Type classification: this is a bibliography resource.

World

Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature. 1953. 2nd Ed: 1973. vol 1 (histories and general articles): [1]. vol 3: [2]. Commentary: [3].

Damrosch. What is World Literature? 2003. [4]

Series:

Edmund Gosse (ed). Literatures of the World. D Appleton and Co [5]

English

Bateson. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1940. Watson, Supplement 1957.
Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Cambridge University
Ewen. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century English Literature. Columbia University. 1935
Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. University of Calfornia. 1990
Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature. Libraries Unlimited. 1998
Kennedy and Sands. A Concise Bibliography for Students of English. Stanford University
Pelican Guide to English Literature
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Cambridge History of English Literature
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
New Cambridge History of English Literature
Oxford History of English Literature
Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
Short Oxford History of English Literature
Routledge History of Literature in English
Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature
Cambridge History of American Literature

Periodicals

Liverpool Magazine (1890)
Literary Garner (1835)

United States

See w:Category:American literature by state

Dershem. An Outline of American State Literature. 1921

Arizona:

Joseph Amasa Munk, History of Arizona Literature, 1925
Mary G Boyer, Arizona in Literature, 1935
Etulain, "Contours of Culture in Arizona and the Modern West" in Luey and Stowe, Arizona at Seventy-five, 1987
Diaz, "A Bibliography of Bibliographies Relating to the History and Literature of Arizona and New Mexico" (1958) 14 Arizona Quarterly 197

Colorado:

Eugene Parsons, "Colorado Literature" in Stone, History of Colorado, 1918, volume 1, chapter 42, p 877 [6]
Levette J Davidson, "The Literature of Colorado" in Hafen. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State. Volume 2. Chapter 8. Page 225 [7]
Fritz. "Literature". Colorado, the Centennial State. 1941. p 417 [8]
"Books and Writers". Colorado, a Guide to the Highest State. 1941. p 96 [9]
Eugene Parsons, "The Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) Colorado School Journal, vols 34-35, p 24 [10]
"A Plea for the Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado", vol 11, p 12 [11]

Oregon:

Powers, Alfred. History of Oregon Literature. Metropolitan Press. 1935 [12]
Horner, John B. Oregon Literature. 1899 [13]

French

See s:Category:French literature

Bibliographies and bibliographical works:

A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Syracuse University Press. vol 5
Bassan, Breed and Spinelli. An Annotated Bibliography of French Language and Literature. 2nd Ed: 1976 [14]
French XX Bibliography: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture since 1885. [15]
Foulet. A Bibliography of Medieval French Literature for College Libraries. 1915 [16]
Kirsop. The Bibliography of French Literary History: Progress, Problems, Projects. 1964. [17]

Jaffe. Bibliography of French Literature in American Magazines in the 18th Century. Michigan State College Press. 1951. [18]
Raimbert. French Literature in Mauritius (1800-1979): A Select Bibliography in the City Library of Port Louis. 1980 [19]
French Literature in Early American Translation: A Bibliographical Survey of Books and Pamphlets Printed in the United States from 1668 Through 1820. 1977. [20]

History:

Cambridge History of French Literature
Coward. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema. 2002. Paperback 2004. [21]
Hollier. A New History of French Literature. 1989. 1994. [22]
Cazamian. A History of French Literature. Clarendon Press.1955. Reprinted 1967. [23]
Nitze and Dargan. A History of French Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Present. 1930. [24]
Butler. A History of French Literature. 1923. Reissued 1966. [25]
Dowden. A History of French Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1900 [26]
Wright. A History of French Literature. (Oxford French series). [27]
Schwarz. An Outline History of French Literature. 1924. 1932. [28]
Demogeot. History of French Literature. Adapted from the French by Bridge. 1874. [29]

Brunetière. Manual of the History of French Literature. 1898. [30]

Brereton. A Short History of French Literature. 1954. 2nd Ed:1976. [31]
Bisson. A Short History of French Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. 1943. [32]
Hudson and Jack. A Short History of French Literature. 1919 [33]
Saintsbury. A Short History of French Literature. 1882. 2nd Ed: 1884. 7th Ed: 1917 [34] [35]

Finch. French Literature: A Cultural History. 2010. [36]

Prendergast. History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. 2017. [37]
Laun. History of French Literature: From the Classical Renaissance until the End of the Reign of Louis XIV. 1883. [38]

Farrant. Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. 2007. [39]
Vinet. History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Bryce. 1854. [40]

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. A New History of Medieval French Literature. Translated by Sara Preisig. 2011. [41]

Konta. The History of French Literature: From the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler. 1914. [42]

Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

Holmes. A History of Old French Literature: From the origins to 1300. 1938. Revised Ed: 1962. [43]

Sainstbury. A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century). 1919. [44]

Japanese

Ryōzō Matsumoto. Japanese Literature New and Old. Hokuseido Press. 1966. [45]
J Ingram Bryan. The Literature of Japan. 1929. Kennikat Press. Port Washington. Reissued 1970. [46]
Clay MacCauley. Japanese Literature. 1898. [47]
Epiphanius Wilson. Japanese Literature: Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan. 1900. [48]
Katsuhiko Takeda. Essays on Japanese Literature. Waseda University Press. 1977. [49]
Suzuki Sadami. The Concept of "Literature" in Japan. International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Kyoto. 2006. [50]

Bibliography

Modern Japanese Literature in Western Translations: A Bibliography. International House of Japan Library. [51]

Periodicals

Japanese Literature Today [52]
Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies

Kokubungaku and nihonbungaku

Tomoko Aoyama. "From national literature to multicultural literature in Japanese language". Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds). Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Chapter 4. pp 53 to 72.

Reviewed

Donald Richie. Japanese Literature Reviewed. 2003. [53]

History

Shuichi Kato. A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. New Abridged Edition. Japan Library. 1997. [54]
Edward Putzar. Japanese Literature: A Historical Outline. University of Arizona Press. [55]
W G Aston. A History of Japanese Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1903. [56]
Naomi Fukuda (ed). Literature. (Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part 2). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. 1984. [57]

Today

A Survey of Japanese Literature Today. Japan P.E.N. Club. 1984. [58]

Contemporary

Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Japan Cultural Society). Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: Synopese of Major Works: 1956-1970. University of Tokyo Press. 1972. [59]

Modern

A Classified Catalogue of Modern Japanese Literature (Meiji, Taisho, Showa). University of Washington Library. 1964. [60]
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. 2016. [61]
J Thomas Rimer and Van C Gessel (eds). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. 2007. vol 2. [62]
- Abridged. 2011. vol 1.
Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. 1993. [63]
Kan Kikuchi. History and Trends of Modern Japanese Literature. Tokyo. 1936. [64]
Edward Mack. Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value. [65]
Donald Keene (ed). Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day. Grove Press. 1956. [66]
Saeki Shōichi. Hidden Dimensions in Modern Japanese Literature. The Japan Foundation, Office for the Japanese Studies Center. [67]

20th century and Showa era

Japanese Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Shōwa Retrospective. Nippon.com

Meiji and Taisho

Kimura Ki (editor and compiler). Japanese Literature: Manners and Customs in the Meiji-Taishó Era. Ōbunsha. [68]

Early modern

Haruo Shirane (ed). Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Abridged Edition. 2008. [69]

Classical

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature [70]
Introduction to Classic Japanese Literature. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1948. [71]

Traditional

Haruo Shirane (ed). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. 2007. [72]

Literary criticism; Literary studies

Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E Abel (eds). Modern Japanese Literary Studies. 2026. [73]
Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan. 1997. [74]

Anthology

Donald Keene. Anthology of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century. Grove Press. 1955. [75] Great Britain. 1956. [76]. Evergreen Ed: 1960. [77]

Novels

Modern novels

Nancy Junko Beauchamp. Modern Japanese Novels in English: A Selected Bibliography. Service Center for Teachers of Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies, Ohio State University. May 1974. [78]
Kinya Tsuruta and Thomas E Swann (eds). Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel. Sophia University. Tokyo. 1976. [79]

Short stories

Theodore W Goossen. The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. 1997. Reissued 2002. [80]

Modern short stories

Thomas E Swann and Kinya Tsuruta (eds). Approaches to the Modern Japanese Short Story. Waseda University Press. 1982. [81]

Poetry

"Japan, Poetry of". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th Ed. p 754. See also articles "Japan, Modern Poetry of" and "Japanese Poetics".
J Thomas Rimer and Robert E Morrell. Guide to Japanese Poetry. 1975: [82]. 2nd Ed: 1984: [83].
Yone Noguchi. The Spirit of Japanese Poetry. [84]
Miyamori Asatarō. Masterpieces of Japanese Poetry Ancient and Modern. [85]
Dean Anthony Brink. Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima. [86]
Curtis Hidden Page. Japanese Poetry: An Historical Essay with Two Hundred and Thirty Translations. 1923. [87]
Thomas Fitzsimmons. Japanese Poetry Now. Schocken Books. 1972. [88]
Leith Morton. An Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Poetry. Garland Publishing. 1993. [89]
Leith Morton. Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry and Poetics: Contemporary Poetry Handbook, 2000–2021. 2026. [90]
Leith Morton. Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry. 2004. [91]
Harry and Lynn Guest and Kajima Shozo. Post-war Japanese Poetry. 1972. Penguin Books. [92]
Alexander Dolin. The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry: Romanticism and Symbolism. Akita International University Press. 2010. [93]
Steven D Carter. Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology. Stanford University Press. [94]
Basil Hall Chamberlain. The Classical Poetry of the Japanese. 1880. [95]
Douglas Kenning. The Romanticism of 17th Century Japanese Poetry. 1998. [96]
Robert H Brower and Earl Miner. Japanese Court Poetry. The Cresset Press. Great Britain. 1962. [97]

Modern poetry

A R Davis (ed). Modern Japanese Poetry. University of Queensland Press. 1978. The Open University Press. Milton Keynes. 1979. [98]
Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa. Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry. 1972. [99]
Ichiro Kono and Rikutaro Fukuda. An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry. Kenkyusha. Tokyo. 1957. [100]