English -- Literature

Literature articles and chapters, literary criticism, biographies, and book reviews

A video streaming service offering access to more than 30,000 documentaries, movies, and educational videos from thousands of producers such as Criterion Collection, PBS, Great Courses, Kino Lorber and more. Covers a wide range of topics, including social work, the classics, art, sociology, and more.

Bloom’s Literature offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature. Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, this database includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions, plus author biographies and character analyses, full-length poems, the full text of hundreds of reference books, full-length videos of classic plays and films, and more. Contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors—from William Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling—and their works; features more than 800 full-length videos of great literary works, from comedies to dramas to musicals; includes a Literary Classics eBook shelf containing the full contents of more than 1,000 classic works of literature; find more than 2,600 full-text, searchable poems; and, offers specific, user-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works of literature.

A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Contains full-text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and more. Coverage: 1912 - present.

Contains journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines. All time periods and from around the world. Coverage: 1960's - present.

Subject index for books, articles, and Web sites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.