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{{Infobox book
| name = Literary Research Guide
| author = James L. Harner
| image = Literary Research Guide.jpg
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| pub_date = 2008 (5th edition)
| publisher = [[Modern Language Association]]
| pages = 826
| isbn = 9780873528085
}}

'''''Literary Research Guide''''' is a reference work that annotates and evaluates important research materials related to [[English literature]] and [[English literary studies]]. The first edition appeared in 1989 and the fifth edition was published in 2008. These editions were printed books and the work was digitalized into an electronic version c. 2008.

The latest edition describes its mission as follows: "a selected, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English and related topics".<ref>James L. Harner, ''[https://archive.org/details/literaryresearch0000harn_i9e1/page/n11/mode/2up Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies]'', New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008, p. x. Retrieved 17 February 2022.</ref>

This work won Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award which was given by the [[Association of College and Research Libraries]]'s review magazine ''[[Choice Reviews|Choice]]''.<ref>"Back Matter." ''College Literature'', vol. 25, no. 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25112421.</ref>

The author of the ''Guide'' was James L. Harner (died May 2016), an academic at [[Texas A&M University]], who also edited the ''[[World Shakespeare Bibliography]]'', which is now online and is the single-largest Shakespeare database in the world.<ref>Laura Estill, [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328656604_James_L_Harner_In_Memoriam "James L. Harner: In Memoriam"], ''Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance'', vol. 17 (32), 2018; DOI: 10.18778/2083-8530.17.0. Retrieved 17 February 2022.</ref><ref name="Johns Hopkins University">{{cite web|last=Johns Hopkins University|title=Institutional Subscription Plans|url=http://www.press.jhu.edu/references/institutional_subscriptions.html|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|accessdate=29 November 2011}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* {{Cite journal |last1=Fyn |first1=Amy F. |title=Review of Literary Research Guide, 5th ed |journal=Reference & User Services Quarterly |volume=50 |issue=3 |page=301 |date=2011 |doi=10.5860/rusq.50n3.301 |issn=1094-9054 |jstor=41241185 |df=mdy-all |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Herschman |first1=Judith |title=Review of Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies |journal=The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=155–157 |date=2000 |doi=10.1086/603177 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4309422 |issn=0024-2519 |jstor=4309422 |df=mdy-all |url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=McLeod |first1=Colin |title=Review of Literary Research Guide |journal=[[Reference and User Services Quarterly|RQ]] |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=184–185 |date=1976 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41354422 |issn=0033-7072 |jstor=41354422 |df=mdy-all }}
* {{Cite journal |title=Review of Literary Research Guide; An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. 5th ed |journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=103 |issue=1 |page=126 |date=2009 |doi=10.1086/pbsa.103.1.24293795 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24293795 |issn=0006-128X |jstor=24293795 |df=mdy-all |url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Paster |first1=Gail Kern |last2=Mowat |first2=Barbara A. |title=In Memoriam: James L. Harner |journal=Shakespeare Quarterly |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=177–179 |date=2016-12-29 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/643792 |doi=10.1353/shq.2016.0021 |s2cid=193590781 |issn=1538-3555 |via=[[Project MUSE]] |df=mdy-all |url-access=subscription }}

== References ==
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== External links ==

* ''[https://archive.org/details/literaryresearch0000harn_i9e1/mode/2up  Literary Research Guide]'' (5th edition, 2008)

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