The Literary Experience Research Guide

Find books  

Library catalog

• Books about your writer: Search by subject  -- "hemingway, ernest"
• Find related books? Click on one of the book titles and note the subject links to related books. Also, see the right side column facet list for more links to books on your topic.
• Books written by your writer: Search by author -- "hemingway, ernest"
• Use Boolean statements to combine topics: race AND literature
• Use quotation marks for phrases

E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary Loan

• Use either service to obtain books from other libraries; Interlibrary loan for journal articles. (There is no charge for this service.)
• Takes 5 to 7 days: Be sure to plan ahead 

Find articles

Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 300 periodicals in literature, archaeology, art , classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history and world literature. Includes book reviews.

Literature Online (Chadwyck)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

MLA International Bibliography (CSA)
Consists of research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations to articles from over 3000 journals and series published internationally, as well as monographs, collections, and various types of reference works.

How can I get this article? is the key.

Some entries have full text via the database. For others, click on FindIt to determine if there are online links to the article; if it is in a journal the library subscribes to (Library catalog); or if you need to use Interlibrary Loan / Iliad - to obtain the article.  

Literature Criticism Online
LCO is an extensive full text compilation of literary commentary reaching back 30 years, covering centuries of critiques on authors and their works that span all time periods, types of literature and regions. The cross searchable collection brings together the literary series Drama Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism providing criticism on the major authors, dramatists and poets.

Need more information? Go to the English Subject Guide for articles, biography, reviews, newspapers and more...

Find biographical and contextual information

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Biographies, bibliographies and analysis of over 115,000 authors. In-depth coverage of the most studied authors.

 Literature Online (Chadwyck) 
 In addition to journal articles, LION contains biographical and other key reference resources. 

Citing your sources

Print and web style guides

• Research and documentation online: MLA -- Humanities
• MLA Electronic Style
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Print copy at the  Information desk -- LB 2369 G53 2009