This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of "Ligeia" by Egar Allan Poe

Reference Books

• Nineteenth Literary Criticism, (Ref PN 771 .C59) Volume(s):
  • 1: 504-05, 513-14, 518-19
  • 16: 295, 303-06, 308, 314, 322, 324, 328, 331, 335
  • 55: 133, 151, 197, 201
  • 78: 285
  • 94: 202
  • 97: 180, 182, 208-09, 211
  • 117: 193, 222, 237, 245, 281, 299, 301, 303
  • 211: 246, 253-55, 257, 312, 341-42, 344
• Short Story Criticism, (Ref PN 3373 .S389) Volume(s):
  • 1: 377, 379-80, 385, 393-97, 399
  • 22: 290, 299, 305-06, 308, 318, 325, 330, 330, 351
  • 34: 274
  • 35: 321, 331
  • 54: 161, 166, 180, 184-85, 198, 209
  • 88: 229, 240, 243
  • 111: 150-51, 161, 163, 181, 215, 235-37, 240-43
• Masterplots II: Short Stories series (Ref PN 3326 .M27 2004) Volume(s):
  • 4: 2368-2370

Biographical Information (Reference collection)

• Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers Before 1880. (Ref PS 21 .D5 vol. 74)
• American Writers. (Ref PS PS 129 .A55 vol. 3)

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

• Amper, Susan. How to Write About Edgar Allan Poe. (PS 2638 .A555 2008) ["Ligeia", pp. 67-78]
• Bloom, Harold. Edgar Allan Poe. (PS 2638 .E32 2006)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. The Tales of Poe Modern Critical Interpretations. (PS 2618 T.32 T3 1987)
• May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. (PS 2642 .F43 M39 1991) ["Ligeia", pp. 61-64-167-169]
• Sova, Dawn B. Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. (PS 2630 .S68 2007).

E-Books

• eBrary: Auerbach, Jonathan. Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James. Oxford University Press, 1989. "Legeia": pp. 3,22, 24, 32, 38, 44-49, 53.
• eBrary: Hayes, Kevin J. Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• eBrary: Magistrate, Tony. Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Greenwood Pub. Group, 2001. "Ligeia": p. 18, 53, 55, 59-63; parallels to Poe's life, 9.

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Online

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for journal articles like those posted below.

• Basler, Roy P. "The Interpretation of 'Ligeia.'" College English April 1944: 363-372. [JSTOR]
• Basler, Roy P. "Poe's 'Ligeia.'" PMLA Dec. 1962: 675.[JSTOR]
• Bieganowski, Ronald. "The Self-Consuming Narrator in Poe's Ligeia and Usher." American Literature 60.2 (1988): 175-187. [JSTOR]
• Schroeter, James. "A Misreading of Poe's 'Ligeia.'" PMLA Sept. 1961: 397-406. [JSTOR]
• Voloshin, Beverly. "Transcendence Downward: An essay on Usher and Ligeia. Modern Language Studies 18.3 (1988): 18-29. [JSTOR]