Databases by Subject: Literature

Classic and current literary criticism focusing on an individual author’s entire body of work or on a single work of literature; from the Critical Insights series of books published by Salem Press. Full-text.

Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. Gale

1984 - Present. Full text articles from over 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews, related to literary, scholarly, and creative thought. Full text. EBSCO

Dates vary. Articles from scholarly journals in the arts, history, social sciences, multi-cultural studies, economics, education, and general science disciplines. Journal content is unique to this database. ARTStor images are now discoverable here as well.

Dates vary. Information of thousands of literary works and their authors. Content includes reference works, books, journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, classic texts and author interviews. Full-text. EBSCO

Gale Literature: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. Gale

Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from international English language sources. Full-text.