Literature Resources from Gale – comprising several literature-related databases, this resource provides literary criticism, overviews and texts of significant literary works, biographies of writers, etc. For off-campus access, contact a librarian.

American Literature - From Academic Info

English Literature - From Academic Info

Literary Resources on the Net – From the University of Pennsylvania

Voice of the Shuttle English Literature

Authors – From LSU

Biography Resource Center (Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Please contact a librarian for off-campus access.)

Literature Resource Center

Online Literary Criticism Collection - From the Internet Public Library

The Scribner Writers Series
includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series.

InfoTrac:
Expanded Academic ASAP- citations, abstracts, and in some cases full articles from academic journals in all fields.
General Reference Center - citations, abstracts, and in some cases full articles from hundreds of general interest magazines. Useful for book reviews, but not academic literary criticism.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

MLA Bibliography
Covers journals in literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Includes ONLY citations and abstracts. Available to the Converse community both on the campus network and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information.

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
The complete text of magazine and newspaper articles. Like InfoTrac's "General Reference Center" (above), best for book reviews as opposed to academic literary criticism. Available only on the campus computer network.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (Available only on Converse campus.)

Grolier Online Encyclopedia (Available only on Converse campus.)
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

Oxford English Dictionary (OED): defines over 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world and traces their historical development by providing quotations from different time periods. Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Contact a librarian for more information.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Over 100 subject-specific encyclopedias from Oxford University Press

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts

British Women Romantic Poets - From UC Davis

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Library of Southern Literature

LitFinder:

• A collection of international literary works (poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches) from all time periods
  • Non-English-language works appear here in English translation
• For off-campus access, contact a librarian.

Project Gutenburg

Representative Poetry Online - From the University of Toronto

African American women writers of the 19th century

Glossary of Literary Terms