Literature

Resources

Library materials on literature may be found by browsing in the following call number areas:

PA (Classical Literature)	PR (English Literature)
PN (Literary History)	PS (American Literature)
PQ (Romance Literature)	PZ (Children’s Literature)

Subjects to use in searching for literature resources include:
literature, authors, drama, poetry, fiction, women and literature, type of literature (American, English, etc)nationality of author (African American authors, French authors).

Keywords to search include authors, names, criticism, and African American authors.

You may also access e-books through netLibrary, a virtual library which contains over 20,000 full-text electronic books. These full-text e-books may be viewed and searched online and sections may be printed for your research needs. In order to access this virtual library, you must first create an account from on-campus. Click here for an online tutorial.

REFERENCE WORKS

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols	Electronic Book
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English	Electronic Book
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature	Electronic Book
Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature	Electronic Book
Dictionary of Shakespeare	Electronic Book
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature	Electronic Book
The Chronology of American Literature	Electronic Book
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth- Century American Short Story	Electronic Book
Black Literature Criticism	PS153.N5
Contemporary Literary Criticism	PN771.C59
Dictionary of Literary Biography	PS128.D5
Encyclopedia of World Literature	PN774.L433
European Authors 1000-1900	PN451.K8
Masterplots	PN44.M33
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism	PN771.G27
World Literature Criticism	PN523.W67

DATABASES

You may access the following databases from any computer workstation on campus. For off-campus access, please follow the instructions found on the library’s homepage under “Off-Campus Access Instructions” or click here for an online tutorial.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete is a valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

Specialized Databases

The African American Poetry 1760-1900 includes full-text poems written by African American poets in the 18th and 19th centuries..

The American Poetry Full-Text Database includes poems from over 200 American poets from the Colonial period to the early 20 th century.

Early Modern Literary Studies is an online journal concentrating on English literature, literary culture, and language during the 16 th & 17 th centuries.

The English Poetry Full-Text Database contains over 165,000 full-text poems from pre-1500 to the end of the nineteenth century.

English Verse Drama provides access to more that 2200 works from over 500 authors from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13 th century through the end of the nineteenth century.

Literature Resource Center presents biographical information on more than 122,000 authors along with critical essays, work overviews, and explications. Click here for an online tutorial.

MLA International Bibliography is the primary bibliography in literature and the humanities. It is a citation database with no full-text.

PROJECT GUTENBERG contains full-text e-books that you can read online, download or print.

Project MUSE is a full-text database of scholarly journals in the fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

WEBSITES

Bartleby.com is one of the best literature sites on the Internet offering numerous reference sources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.

Literary Resources on the Net is an index to English and American literature resources.

The Literature Network includes online classic literature, poesm, quotes, essays and summaries.

Modern American Poetry provides biographical information on American poets and critical essays on their works….

netLibrary is a virtual library which contains over 11,000 full-text electronic books. These full-text e-books may be viewed and searched online and sections may be printed for your research needs. In order to access this virtual library, you must first create an account from on-campus.

The Academy of American Poets presents information on over 1200 poems and over 450 poets.

A Celebration of Women Writers contains links on women writers from all over the world. You may search by name, country, or ethnicity.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. This resource, considered one of the most important works in literary history and criticism, contains over 11,000 pages on topics such as poetry, fiction, and drama.

If you have questions regarding any of these resources or need assistance finding
additional information, please Ask a Librarian.