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Call Number Ranges (Library of Congress)

PL Eastern Asia, Africa and Oceania languages and literature

PN Literature (General, Literary history & criticism)

PQ French, Italian, Spanish & Portugues literature

PR English literature

PS American literature

PT German, Dutch, Flemish, Scandinavian, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian & Swedish literature

Library of Congress call numbers group books by topic. Above are some of the core literature areas in our collection.

American Scream - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin
Call Number: PS3513.I74 H636 2004
"Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs..."
Borderlines: The shiftings of gender in British romanticism by Susan J. Wolfson
Call Number: PR468.R65 W65 2006
"...fresh readings of the works, careers, and volatile receptions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Felicia Hemans, M. J. Jewsbury, Lord Byron, and John Keats, Susan Wolfson shows how senses (and sensations) of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation..."