Literature Resources

Journal Articles and Criticism :

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
• Book Review Digest Retro, 1905-1982
• Essay & General Literature Index
• MLA Bibliography
• JSTOR (1884-)
• Project Muse
• America: History & Life
• Historical Abstracts
• Literature Online (LiOn)
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (also in Ref PN771 .C59)
• Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide (Ref. Index Area AI3.R4)
• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (Ref. Index Area AI3.R4)

Biographical Information for authors:

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index
• Contemporary Authors
• Dictionary of Literary Biography

Books in this and other libraries :

• Snoopy Library Catalog
  • by keyword,
    • e.g.: Hemingway and criticism
    • e.g.: Mexican literature and criticism
  • by subject
    • e.g.: American literature -- 19 th century -- history and criticism
    • e.g.: Russian poetry -- 20 th century
• Link+
• Melvyl (UC Libraries)
• WorldCat

Request from other libraries:

• LINK+ (books only)
• Interlibrary Services (books & articles)

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries:
(for background information)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Search Snoopy:
  • by keyword,
    • e.g .: literature and encyclopedia and medieval
    • e.g.: Latin American literature and encyclopedia
    • Poetry and encyclopedia
  • by subject,
    • e.g.: criticism -- encyclopedias
    • e.g.: criticism -- terminology
    • e.g.: poetry -- dictionaries
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Oxford English Dictionary

 

Subject Web Guides:

• IPL: Literary Criticism
• IPL: Literature
• LII: Literature
• Literary Resources on the Net
• The Voice of the Shuttle
• PAL: Perspectives on American Literature (Paul Reuben)
• Project Gutenberg (Electronic Texts)

Other useful resources:

• LC Call Numbers
• Glossary of Literary Terms (by GaleGroup)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
• Sonoma County Writer's Guide

Help Guides:

• Citation Style Manuals
• Finding Primary sources
• Finding Book Reviews