LibGuides: Literary Arts: Criticism & Scholarship

Dickens Fellowship

Dickens Fellowship Presents Mr. Frank Speaight. 1928. Harris Collection.

California Comics

California Comics. 1860. Harris Collection.

Finding Articles in Databases

On this page, you will find links to specialized databases relating to Literary Arts. These databases are where you will find citations and often full-text links to articles from journals in these subject areas, as well as some citations to books and book chapters.

Please see the link below for E-journals by literary subject and geographic location.

We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder. African American spiritual, 1907 version. Public domain.

General Literature & Literary Criticism Resources

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
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The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Bibliography of American Literature
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Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. The collection is essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Literature Criticism Online
Current; this resource is from the well-known Contemporary Literary Criticism and offers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Literature Online (LION)
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Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
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Current. Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia Web Archive
Curated by librarians from the Ivy Plus Confederation. "The project aims to archive web content related to literary authors (of both fiction and non-fiction essays), translators, critics, and publishers...with the aim of preserving the history of the contemporary literary process as reflected in the non-print publishing activity of important literary figures and organizations."

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America. Lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides addresses and information about submission for publication.
MLA International Bibliography
1926-present.
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations on literature, including film studies.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
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1864-present.
Draws its content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events.obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. IPAFT covers nearly all aspects of the performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
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The current release of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and 2012.

Ejournals in Literature

Ejournals: Literature

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