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Literary Criticism

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Literature Resource Center offers access to articles from hundreds of journals (many of which are peer-reviewed), biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Users can also find full text of many poems and short stories, as well as book reviews of fiction and non-fiction, including children's, young adult, and adult works.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Covers international literature in linguistics, sociolinguistics and related language sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Unlock a treasure trove of knowledge with JSTOR! Dive into over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources across 75 disciplines.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Includes articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
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Gale Literature provides primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. It integrates Literature Resources from Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online, and more into a single research environment.

Voice of the Shuttle
Authoritative guide to web sites in literatures other than English.

Online Primary Text & Document Collections

African Writers Series
Provides access to a body of literature, originally published by the Heinemann African Writers Series, much of which is out of print. The searchable full-text collection covers the whole historical range of modern African fiction, and includes some of the most important works of African poetry.
American Studies Hypertexts
This website gives full-text access to many literary and scholarly texts written by famous authors and scholars.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Search for primary sources in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) and the Making of the Modern World.

Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
Collection of 2,500 fully digitized children's books published from 1850 to 1900 in the U.S. and U.K.
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web.
Classic Reader
Classic Reader offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. You can read, search and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. A selection of author biographies and portraits is also available.
Digital Bodleian
Single portal to digital collections at the Bodleian Library.
Folger Digital Texts
Digital texts and supplemental research materials from one of the world's premier Shakespeare collections.
Harry Ransom Center Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection containing 215 medieval or Renaissance manuscripts that date between the 11th and 17th centuries.
Mark Twain Project Online
Authoritative source on everything you need to know about Mark Twain.

Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

The Tatler and The Spectator
This database from Rutgers is designed for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1714), two innovative eighteenth-century periodicals, both of which are completely available here.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century, the collection contains an array of genres, including poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.

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Literary Criticism

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