Routledge Companion to World Literature, 2nd ed.. Ed. Theo D'Haen, David Damrosch, and Djelal Kadir. London and NY: Routledge, 2022.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Eugene Benson and L. W. Connolly. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2005. 3 vols. Articles (over 1800) by experts on the various national literatures, genres, topics, and individual writers. Geisel 2nd Fl. Online and West Reference PR 9080 .A52 E53 2005
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts, 3rd. ed. NY: Routledge, 2013.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer. NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Includes fiction writers from all over the world.
A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Eds.Prem Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers. Ed. Robert L. Ross. Garland, 1991. Geisel 7th Fl. PR 9080 .I57 1991. Bio-bibliographical essays on 60 writers from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean region, India, New Zealand, etc.
Thieme, John. Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary. Arnold, 2003. Geisel 6th Fl. JV 22 .T45 2003
Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Australia
Samuels, Selina. Australian literature, 1788-1914. Gale Group, 2001 and companion volume by same editor, Australian Writers, 1950-1975. Gale, 2004
Wilde, W. H. (William Henry), et al. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1995. Online and Geisel 7th Fl. PR9606.2 .W55 1994
Canada
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2nd ed.), ed. William Toye and Eugene Benson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Frequently updated.
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Ed. William H. New. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2002. Geisel 2nd Fl. West Reference PR 9180.2 .E53 2002
Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada.
Indian
Jaidka, Manju, and Tej N. Dhar, eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. Routledge, 2024.
Ireland
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Welch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Frequently updated.
The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Rev. ed. Ed. S.J. Connolly. NY: Oxford UP, 2007. Frequently updated.
