Research Guides: Literature: Research

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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies, including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more. Includes the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience.
COVE Studio This link opens in a new window
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Use this platform to create course anthologies and annotate texts.

BBC Literary Adaptations in Video
BBC productions of literary works from many authors, including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, George Eliot, Arthur Miller, and Mary Shelley.

Royal Shakespeare Company This link opens in a new window
Video recordings of 30 productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
This resource provides full text of journals, books, and other published humanities sources from around the world.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarly and peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of subject areas.

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Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides reliable information on authors and their works, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

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