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English Resources

New Books

Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
How to Drown a Boy: Poems
Origins of the Syma Species
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
How to Reread a Novel
Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence
Friendship and the Novel
Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities

Finding Books

The Library of Congress (LC) classification (the system Snowden Library uses to organize books) for English literature begins with the letters P. The general categories for English are:​

  • P = Language and Literature
  • Z 1001-8999 = Bibliography

You can find these general categories on the 4th floor of Snowden Library. You may want to browse the shelf where books on your subject are located to see what is available. For more targeted searching, use the search boxes below.

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Searching Beyond Snowden

WorldCat

Don't see what you need at Snowden? You can search for books available at other libraries that you can request via InterLibrary Loan using

E-Z Borrow

If you know a book title you want, you can also use E-Z Borrow to order it from other libraries in or near Pennsylvania.