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Recommended Databases: Literature
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Gale LiteratureThis link opens in a new windowGALE Literary Sources includes full text literary criticism, author biographies, plot summaries & work overviews, articles, essays, eBooks, book reviews, classic texts and more.
Infobase - Bloom's LiteratureThis link opens in a new windowExamines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Literary Reference CenterThis link opens in a new windowThe database contains full text for plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, short stories and much more. It also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus and much more.
Gale Literature Resource Center - For Higher Ed Users
General overview of Literature Resource Center and how to use it, including performing searches and working with articles.