Research Guides: English, American, and World Literature: Literature

Databases for finding literature

Use the following databases to find out about literature. Then, use the library catalog or Worldcat to find out if we have the literature you need or request it through interlibrary loan.

OneSearch (advanced search page) This link opens in a new window
Search WorldCat plus Academic Search Complete and Proquest Research Library to find book, ebooks, scholarly articles, news, and more.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A literature reference database that includes biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. The LRC is built on the Gale Group three author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online.
Gale Books and Authors This link opens in a new window
Search by genre, title, or author. Includes reading recommendations and award lists.
LitFinder This link opens in a new window
Access to literary works and authors throughout history full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new window
Thousands of original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world from all time periods.
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project This link opens in a new window
This collection presents the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943.

Forming the most complete collection of publications from all participating states, this archive contains more than 450 individual items, many of which are typed or mimeographed and received only limited circulation. The FWP was a part of "Federal One," the arts project established by the WPA to cover music, theater, art and writers. The WPA recognized that steelworkers, bricklayers, share-croppers, and factory workers were not the only section of the economy hit by the Depression. Academics, post-graduate students, journalists, playwrights and novelists were also unemployed. In five years the WPA spent millions, provided literary training and, more significantly, the opportunity for participants to observe, eat and write.
Book Review Digest Plus This link opens in a new window
Brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources. Includes children's books as well as books for adults and young adults.

Find Bibliographies and Reviews

Tips for Searching for Bibliographies or Review Articles in MLA Bibliography

These are not a fool-proof ways of finding review articles or bibliographies, but it may help you narrow the search.

Type your author or subject on the first line, then type bibliography on the second line and change the field to genre/classification.
Type your author or subject on the first line, then type review article on the second line and change the field to Subjects-All.

Tips for Searching for Bibliographies or Review Articles in Other Databases

If you’re using Onesearch, after completing the search, go to Source Types and check Reviews
If you're using EbscoHost Academic, change the Document Type to Bibliography or Literary Criticism.
If you're using ProQuest Research, type review or bibliography and change the field to document title.

Tips for Searching for Bibliographies or Review Articles on Web Sites

In a browser such as Google or Yahoo, you can type the name of your author and the word “bibliography” (without the quotes). Example: Chaucer bibliography.

English, American, and World Literature

Databases for finding literature

Find Bibliographies and Reviews

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