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Credo Reference : Literature, Language & Quotations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

Access: On-Site Access Only

Description: Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Users can choose to search all reference works or the following titles in literature, language & quotations:

  • American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms
  • Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations
  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature
  • Bloomsbury Good Word Guide
  • Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations
  • Brewer's Curious Titles
  • Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
  • Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Millennium Edition
  • Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
  • Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English
  • Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
  • Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
  • Chambers Dictionary of Eponyms
  • Chronology of American Literature
  • Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations
  • Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
  • Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
  • Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
  • Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
  • Devil's Dictionary
  • Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
  • Dictionary of Eponyms, Manser
  • Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
  • Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing
  • Divided by a Common Language
  • How We Talk: American Regional English Today
  • Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
  • Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations
  • Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk
  • Rawson's Wicked Words
  • Respectfully Quoted
  • Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
  • Word Histories and Mysteries
List of all Xrefer titles.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s)
Literature & Language

Related DatabasesOn-Site Access Only
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
MLA International Bibliography
Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences
World Shakespeare Bibliography

Related Links
Bartleby.com
Cambridge History of English and American Literature ** http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ **
Lexicon of Linguistics ** http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/ **
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