Subject Guides: Literary Criticism: Research Databases

LitFinder

LitFinder This link opens in a new window
Includes approximately 140,000 full-text poems, 7,100 full-text classic and contemporary short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays and 1,700 full-text plays. More than 660 nationalities and ethnicities are represented by the authors.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text criticism, biographical and other information on 2,500 of the most-studied authors
Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window
A completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works
Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window
Contains authoritative critical essays, biographies, overviews, topics and themes for literature from the earliest times to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the archives of over 390 academic journals in the arts and sciences
Salem Press: Literature This link opens in a new window
Salem Literature is a great place to investigate the connections between authors and works of profound and lasting cultural influence. Writers in all genres are profiled by respected literary critics in our new Critical Insights series
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
This is an online version of the massive, multi-volume dictionary. Modern as well as historical definitions of words are given. Every three months, new additions are added and revisions are made.