Academic Search Elite / Text Only Version
Multi-subject database; articles from journals and other publications
Caribbean Literature
Poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays and essays from Caribbean writers.
Cambridge Histories Online
This database includes the full text of over 250 volumes of the Cambridge Histories series on subjects such as literary studies, language and linguistics, and Latin American, British, American, World and regional history.
Chicano Database
Index to materials on a wide range of Mexican-American topics
Children's Literature Review
From Louisa May Alcott to Judy Blume, the most popular and influential authors of the genre are assessed through criticism of their major works.
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
As a convenient source of critical opinion on early literature, this series excerpts criticism on the works of philosophers, poets and playwrights, political leaders, scientists and writers from other genres.
Contemporary Authors
Literary criticism and biographical information on authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
A reference staple! Each volume profiles influential writers via excerpted passages from selected criticism.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Lives and careers of authors, criticism of their works
Drama Criticism
For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and more.
Essay and General Literature Index (WilsonWeb)
Bibliographic access to essays and articles in books
Factiva
Articles from journals, newspapers, wire services; also industry analyses and financial data
Gale Literary Databases
Literary criticism and biographies of authors: a combined database of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Subject coverage includes arts and letters and current political, economic, and social issues.
Humanities & Social Sciences Retro Full Text (WilsonWeb)
History, literature, philosophy, religion, performing arts. 1907 - 1984
Humanities E-Book
The Humanities E-Book database comprises the full text of over 1500 titles that include most humanities disciplines and area studies.
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
History, literature, philosophy, religion, performing arts
Humanities International Index
Index to U.S and Canadian literary, scholarly and creative journals
JSTOR
Back runs of scholarly journals; art & architecture, language & literature, history, economics, social sciences, mathematics, ecology and music
Latin American Women Writers
A collection of literature from the colonial period to the present.
Latino Literature
Novels, short stories, plays, and poetry from Latino writers; about 25% is in Spanish.
Literature Criticism 1400-1800
This authoritative resource on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras fulfills a need for information on historical periods, literary trends and topics, and the achievements of noteworthy individuals.
Literature Criticism Online
Made up of 10 databases comprised of a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. It includes modern, classical and medieval literature; poetry, Shakespeare, short story, drama and children's literature.
Literature Online (LION)
Criticism and reference that combines the texts of over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, drama in English and American literature
MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest)
Literature, language, linguistics, & folklore
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors of 1800 through 1899 with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It covers words from across the English-speaking world and offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Journals
Full text journals from Oxford University Press, a major publisher of academic and research journals
Poetry Criticism
Support students and enhance the understanding of poetry lovers with this collection of biographical sketches, author portraits, primary bibliographies and much more.
Project Muse
Scholarly journals in arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics
Shakespeare Criticism
This comprehensive survey of the Bard includes general and specific critical interpretations from the 17th century to the present.
Short Story Criticism
The most-studied short story writers of yesterday and today are profiled in volumes that deliver a historical survey of the critical response to their work.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999 — the era most frequently studied in high schools
World Shakespeare Bibliography [CD-ROM]
Citations to Shakespeare research by international scholars
WorldCat
Index to books and other resources in thousands of libraries. Also see CalCat (California only).
