Starting Research in Literature

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Cambridge Companions to Literature & Classics Online The online equivalent of the renowned print series from Cambridge University Press. The hundreds of titles in the series provide scholarly overviews of authors, movements, genres, periods, and national literatures.

Literature Resource Center Provides easy access to scholarly research on authors and literary works. Includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, and journal articles. more...

MLA International Bibliography The essential index for literary criticism articles. Covers 1926-present.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Provides encyclopedia-like entries of critical trends and theories. Also includes overviews of particular critics' publications and influence. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.