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Literature-specific Databases
MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes over 3,000 periodicals in the area of literature and linguistics, as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides information on authors and literary works from all nationalities and time periods. The database includes information from reference books, literature encyclopedias, and over 250 academic literary journals.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides the full-text of approximately 300 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Also links to full-text articles in JSTOR.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic collection of full text scholarly journals. The complete archives of these journals are available starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal are not included.
Twayne Authors Series
Twayne Author Series contains the full text of 600 popular Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, and English authors.
Women Writers Online
Women Writers Online provides the full text of hundreds of texts by pre-Victorian women writers. Texts cover the period from 1400 to 1850.
ITER Gateway to the Middle Ages
ITER's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Over 1,100 journals are indexed, as well as over 700 monographs and essays.
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General Databases with Some Literature Content
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides indexing and abstracting of almost 7,000 peer-reviewed journals, with full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. All major academic subject areas are covered.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 2,883 journals in the directory. Currently 927 journals are searchable at article level.
Ebrary
Ebrary contains hundreds of thousands of full text electronic books including fiction, poetry, plays, prose and literary criticism.
MasterFile Select
EBSCO MasterFile Select provides full text for more than 700 general reference magazines and journals, with coverage dating as far back as 1984.
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library indexes more than 2,000 periodicals, and provides the full text of over 1,200 of them. It has a mix of general interest and academic journals that cover the arts, business, education, health, humanities, psychology, sciences, and the social sciences.
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Selected Websites
Bartleby
http://bartleby.com/
A wonderful reference resource for literature. Includes free access to numerous dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference works on literature, as well as classic full-text collections verse and fiction.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
The best collection of resources for Medieval literature, provided by Georgetown University.
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
University of Virginia Library Digital Collections
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/text/
Collection of digitized texts for fiction, poetry, prose, and American history.
Voice of the Shuttle: Resources for Literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Created and maintained by Alan Liu of U.C. Santa Barbara, this is the best Web source for literature available today. Links on the left menu for Literature in English, Literatures (Other than English), and Literary Theory will be of particular interest.
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Selected Print Resources
American Writers
Call Number REF PS 129.A55
This collection of critical and biographical articles covers notable American authors from the 17th century to the present day.
British Writers
Call Number REF PR 85.B688
This collection of critical essays covers 286 writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Call Number REF PN 771.C59
Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Covers writers who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Call Number REF PN81.J554 1994
This guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of ideas and individuals ranging from Plato and Aristotle to twentieth-century scholars. It includes alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Magill's Survey of World Literature
Call Number REF PN 523.M29 1993
The collection discusses major world authors of fiction, drama, and poetry and includes biographies, general analysis, and analysis of the author's most important works.
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
Call Number REF PN 761.N5
Covers poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Entries typically include an author portrait, an introduction to the author, a primary bibliography, annotated criticism and an annotated list of further reading sources.
Poetry Criticism
Call Number REF PN 1103.P74x
Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on major poets from all eras. Entries provide an introductory biographical sketch, an author portrait, a primary bibliography, annotated full text and excerpted criticism of the poets' works and sources for additional reading.
Shakespeare for Students
Call Number REF PR 2987.S47 1992
Contains criticism along with plot summaries and character profiles. Each play is treated with approximately 50-75 pages of text. The format consists of three major sections: Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Sources for Further Study.
Shakespeare Survey
Call Number REF PR 2888.C3
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year’s textual and critical studies and of major British performances.
Short Story Index
Call Number REF PN 3373.C6
A guide to short stories of all short story styles and genres. Providing indexing of new and previously published stories in collections and periodicals, Short Story Index indexes stories by title, author and subject in a single-alphabet listing.
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Created by Cathy Perkins. Last updated September 2008.
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