Online Databases

EPCC Libraries

Literature

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More Literary Databases:

Gale Literary Sources:

• Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Gale Researcher:

• Great place to start research.  Provides overviews of topics and links to "original peer-reviewed articles, written by scholars with input from an expert editorial board, images, video, and more to create a media-rich way to explore common disciplines."

Literature Criticism Online, etc.:

• Cross-search these Gale literature archive resources which look and feel like the print originals. These also include Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, 19th Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Literary Reference Center:

• A literary database that includes author biographies and interviews, plot summaries and work overviews, criticism, literary journals, book reviews, and full text for selected poems, short stories, and classic books. Also includes a citation tool and literary glossary. Includes Masterplots and Masterplots II as well as the Bloom Series on Literary Criticism. (Does not duplicate information from the Literature Resources from Gale database below.)

Salem Press Online:

• Provides searchable full text for EPCC owned literature books from Salem Press.