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Use these subscription databases to find scholarly research and criticism (articles), dissertations and theses, plot summaries, and reviews.
Literature Databases
- Caribbean Literature
This collection of Caribbean fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs, and other formats reaches from 1900 to the present. It includes the complete written works of authors, including previously unpublished manuscript materials, as well as the works of several Nobel Prize winners.
- Dissertations & Theses GlobalInternational in scope, this database offers indexing and text for dissertations and theses from 1743 to the present. Full text for some dissertations before 1997, full text for most works added since 1997.
- Gale LiteratureProvides full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
This collection includes poetry, short fiction, novels, and plays. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigration issues, and political history.
- Literary Reference SourceAuthor biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.
- Literature Criticism OnlineCovers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Contains Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
- Literature Online (LION)Over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library.
- Literature Resource CenterAccess biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. Contains Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and more.
- Masterplots IV Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides reference data, plot synopses where applicable, and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of English-language and world literature that has been translated into English.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextSubjects covered include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts. Citations of journal articles, books and dissertations are included.
