LibGuides: Background Information: Humanities

Humanities Subject Areas

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General Humanities
Art
Music
Film

Literature
Communication
Drama & Theater
Philosophy
Religion

General Humanities

Arts & Humanities through the Eras. 2005. 5 vols. (R. 700.9 Ar795)

Art

A Biographical Dictionary of Artists. 1995. (Credo. Also available in print at R. 709.2 B52)
Contemporary Artists. 5th ed. 2002. 2 vols. (R. 709.2 C76)
Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 11th ed. 2001. (R. 709 G17)
Lion Companion to Christian Art. 2008. (R. 704.948 B81)
Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism. 1990. (Credo)

Music

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship. 2010. (R. 782.25 En19)
Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music. 2001. (Credo)
Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. 1996. (Credo)
Harvard Dictionary of Music. 2003. (Credo)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. 2001. 29 vols. (R.780.3 N42a)

Film

Chambers Film Factfinder. 2006. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Film Noir. 2007. (R. 791.436 M45)
Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television. 2nd ed. 2008. (R. 791.4 M89)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. 2005. (Credo)
Film Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. 1994. (R. 791.43 K15)

Literature

African American Writers, 2nd ed. 2001. 2 vols. (R. 810.9896 Af834)
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. 1974-2001. multiple vols. (R. 810.9 Am35)
Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome. 1982. 2 vols. (R. 880 An22)
British Writers. 1979- . multiple vols. (R. 820.9 B77)
Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. 2000. (Credo)
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. 2000. (Credo)
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2005. (Credo)
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. 2006. (Credo)
Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 2005. (Credo)
Critical Terms for Literary Study. 1995. (Credo)
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory. 2002. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. 2001. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory. 1993. (R. 801 En19)
Encyclopedia of German Literature. 2000. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003. 2004. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature. 2000. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 2005. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, 3rd ed. 1999. (Credo)
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature. 2002. (Credo)
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. 2005. 5 vols. (R. 810.992 G85)
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires. 2008. (Credo)
Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. 2003. (Credo)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. 1994. (R. 809 J62)
Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. 2004. 3 vols. (R. 860.998 L71)
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004. 4 vols. (R. 810.3 Ox25)
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 2006. 5 vols. (R. 820.3 Ox25)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 2006. 4 vols. (R. 809.8 Ox25)

Communication

21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook. 2009. (Sage)
Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships. 2006. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. 2006. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. 2002. 3 vols. (R. 302.2 En194)
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. 2009. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 2010. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications. 2003. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Journalism. 2007. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of New Media. 2003. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of Political Communication. 2008. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of Public Relations. 2005. (Sage)
International Encyclopedia of Communication. 2008. 12 vols. (R. 302.2 In85)
Social Networking Communities and E-Dating Services: Concepts and Implications. 2009. (R. 302.23 So13)

Drama & Theater

Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. 1993. (R. 792.0973 C14)
Cambridge Guide to Theatre. 2000. (Credo)
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 1984. 5 vols. (R.809.2 M17)
Oxford Companion to the Theater. 4th ed. 1983. (R. 792.03 H25a)
Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context. 2002. (Credo)

Philosophy

Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Philosophers. 1996. (Credo)
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. 1991-2010. multiple vols. (R. 103 C73)
Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 1999. (Credo)
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. 1997. (Credo)
Dictionary of Existentialism. 1999. (Credo)
Dictionary of Philosophy. 2002. (Credo)
Dictionary of World Philosophy. 2001. (Credo)
Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. 1999. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Revised Ed. 1995. 5 vols. (R.174.2 En19a)
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. 1997. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Empiricism. 1997. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. 2009. 2 vols. (R. 179.1 En19)
Encyclopedia of Ethics. 2001. (Credo. Also available in print at call # R. 170.3 En19)
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. 2001. (Credo)
Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture. 2009. (Sage)
Handbook of Research on Technoethics. 2009. 2 vols. (R. 174.96 H19)
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion. 2007. (R. 210 R76)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1998. 10 vols. (R. 103 R76)

Religion

The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 1992. 6 vols. (R.220.3 AN21)
Critical Terms for Religious Studies. 1998. (Credo)
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. 2005. (Credo)
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend. 2002. (Credo)
Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend. 1991. (Credo)
Encyclopaedia Judaica. 1971-1972. 16 vols. (R. 296 En19)
Encyclopedia of African American Religions. 1993. (R. 200 En17)
Encyclopedia of African Religion. 2009. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. 2004. 2 vols. (R. 297.03 En19)
Encyclopedia of Judaism. 1999. 3 vols. (R. 296 En196)
Encyclopedia of Religion. 1987. 16 vols. (R. 200 En18)
Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development. 2006. (Sage)
Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. 1988. 3 vols. (R. 291 En19)
Encyclopedia of the Early Church. 1992. 2 vols. (R. 270.1 En19)
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. 1999. 2 vols. (R. 200.82 En19)
Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, & Peoples of Islam. 1996. (R. 297 M97)
Need to Know? Islam. 2008. (Credo)
The New Encyclopedia of Judaism. 2002. (Credo)
The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. 2006-2009. 5 vols. (R.220.3 N422)
The New Interpreter’s Bible. 1994-2004. 13 vols. (R.220.7 N418)
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 1996. 4 vols. (R. 270.6 Ox2)
Religious Holidays & Calendars. 3rd ed. 2004. (Credo)
Who's Who in Christianity. 2002. (Credo)
Who's Who in the New Testament. 2002. (Credo)
Who's Who in the Old Testament. 2002. (Credo)