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Reference Works: Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Includes The Mary Shelly Encyclopedia, and Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
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Oxford Reference Includes a variety of encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries on many kinds of literature, and "Reader's Companions" to several prominent Victorian writers, including DIckens and Hardy. Search for authors, publications, and literary terms.
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Very Short Introductions (Oxford) Includes short, informative reads on the Gothic and Literary Theory, as well as many other topics of interest.
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by 
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story by 
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature by 
The encyclopedia of Victorian literature by Series: Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
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