LibGuides: Basic Research Strategies: Literary Research

Strategies for Literary Research

Literary Research

If you are doing research on a work of literature, there are specific databases that you can use.

There is also a whole LibGuide on Literary Criticism.

There are LibGuides on Shakespeare and on Shakespeare's Tragedies.

Check all the LibGuides to see if there is one for your assignment.

Use Find Books, Articles & Other Resources to find books you can take out.

Try these databases:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A collection of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, reports, monographs, conference proceedings and government documents. Topics covered include biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion, & theology and more.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
As the most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Source provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more,
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Current Collection This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to back issues of scholarly journals across the disciplines.
Gale Literature (formerly Literary Sources) This link opens in a new window
Search Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online and Twayne's Author Series, Scribner Writer Series and Lit Finder through this one interface.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Use name of work as the search type if you are looking for analysis of a particular story, poem, play or novel.
MagillOnLiterature Plus This link opens in a new window
Definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries and information on over 1,500 notable authors.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Online scholarly journals covering literature & criticism, history & performing arts, cultural studies, political science.

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