Literature Research

Literature Research

Databases

• Literary Reference Center  - TVDSB EBSCO Database 

  • Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

  • Includes: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.

• Literature Resource Center - TVDSB Gale Database 

  • Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Encyclopedias

• Salem (Password required from librarian) 

  • Masterplots, Fourth Edition

    • Masterplots is a 12-volume reference work that provides fundamental reference data, plot synopses where applicable, and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of English-language and world literature that has been translated into English. The essays are in alphabetical order by title, and each includes an annotated bibliography to aid readers in further study. The Oakridge library also has the print version of this edition of Masterplots.