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Arts & Humanities Subject Guide: Literary Criticism Research

A guide to basic research on literary criticism, art history, and other liberal arts topics.

Key Resources for Literary Criticism

Literature Resource Center (no longer available)
Find full-text literary criticism on more than 130,000 writers, their works and literary genres.
MLA International Bibliography - EBSCOhost
Detailed bibliography of literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, & more.
Project Muse
Find scholarly journals an open access ebooks from the arts, humanities, and social sciences delivered full text, with no embargo.
JSTOR
Access PDFs of articles and chapters in scholarly journals and ebooks across all academic disciplines, including business. Also includes thousands of research reports from over 140 policy institutes around the world as well as open access art images. Please note that journal coverage is mostly historical and doesn't include current issues.

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American Literary Criticism - in print

Articles on American Literature by Lewis Leary
Call Number: PS221 .L399

ISBN: 0822302411

Publication Date: 1954-01-01

Listing of articles on American literature written in English and appearing in periodicals from 1900 through 1950.
Articles on American Literature, 1950-1967 by Lewis Leary (Editor)
Call Number: PS221.L4 REF

ISBN: 9780822302391

Publication Date: 1970-11-23

Listing of articles on American literature written in English and appearing in periodicals from 1950 through 1967.

Literary Biography - Print Resources

Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series by Margaret A. Van Antwerp (Editor)
Call Number: PS21 .D52X

ISBN: 0810311127

Publication Date: 1982-05-15

Each volume concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre. Entries are generously illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors lives.
American Women Writers by Langdon L. Faust (Editor)
Call Number: PS147 .A42 1988 REF

ISBN: 0804431574

Publication Date: 1982-12-01

Literary Encyclopedias - Print Resources

Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature by John Buchanan-Brown
Call Number: PN41.C3 1973

ISBN: 0688002285

Publication Date: 1973-01-01
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama by McGraw-Hill Staff; Daniel Gerould (Preface by)
Call Number: PN1625 .M3

ISBN: 0070791694

Publication Date: 1984-01-01
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Alex Preminger (Editor); Terry V. F. Brogan (Editor); Frank J. Warnke (Editor)
Call Number: PN1021 .N39 1993

ISBN: 0691032718

Publication Date: 1993-05-09

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