LibGuides: English Language and Literature: Novels & Fiction

Call Numbers/Subject Headings

To find books by an author in the online catalogue, type the last name, first name and search in Author heading

To find books about an author in the online catalogue, type the last name, first name and search in Subject heading

Canadian Fiction (English)
English Fiction
Fiction
Search Also Under: subdivision Fiction under subjects for collections of stories or novels on those topics, and under historical subjects or characters for individual works of historical or biographical fiction, e.g. Children--Fiction; Stalingrad, Battle of, 1942-1943--Fiction; and headings for fiction qualified by linguistic, national, ethnic or regional terms, e.g. Slavic fiction; Cuban fiction; French-Canadian fiction; West African fiction
Novelists
Short stories

The following e-book collections include a good selection of relevant texts for novels and fiction.

MyiLibrary (e-book collection)
Includes titles published by Taylor and Frances and Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. Browse titles under subject: Literature (General); Prose, Prose fiction.

Here are a few key databases for finding scholarly research and criticism relating to novels and fiction.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
Literature Criticism Online
Represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. It dates back to 1963 and contains citations from journals, series, and book publishers.

The following selected titles will help you get started with your research.

All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction by Thomas King
Call Number: PS8321 A48
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 by Clive Bloom
Canadian Short Stories by Robert Weaver
Call Number: PS8321 W43 2008
Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson
Call Number: PS377 C565
Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction by David Seed
Call Number: PS379 C656
State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond by Dominic Head
Call Number: PR881 H435
The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycles
Call Number: PS8191 S56L96
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm
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