English Language & Literature: Getting Started

Browse Library Books by Subject 

Language and Literature books, often with call numbers starting with P, are located on the top floor in the West wing.  They are arranged by country, then time period, then author.  The broad categories are as follows:

• PA--Classical Philology (Greek and Latin)
• PB--Modern European Languages (General), Celtic Languages and Literatures 
• PC--Romance Languages
• PD--Old Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
• PE--English Language
• PF--Dutch, Flemish, and German Languages
• PG--Slavic, Baltic, Albanian: Languages and Literatures 
• PH--Finno-Ugrian. Basque Language and Literature
• PJ--Oriental, Semitic Languages and Literatures
• PK--Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures
• PL--Languages and Literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, and Oceania
• PM--Hyperborean, American, and Artificial Languages 
• PN--Literary History. Drama. Literary Collections. (General) 
• PQ--Romance Literatures
• PR--English Literature
• PS--American Literature
• PT--German Literatures
• PZ--Children's and Juvenile Literature 

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