Are you looking for articles and other sources that talk about a work of literature? For example, are you looking for articles that talk about grief and mourning in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"? In this case, you'll want to look in a literature database like the ones listed below.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)
Multidisciplinary archive of digitized scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and general and biological sciences but continues to grow.
Published by: JSTOR
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more hundreds of journals and books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)
Full text access to over 350 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from Johns Hopkins' University Press, as well as a growing number of other University Presses and scholarly publishers. Coverage is current with years of back issues varying by title.
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
Literature Criticism Online is designed to provide easy access for readers of all ages and skill levels. Beginning-level users may simply enter an author or title and find a wealth of content, while experienced researchers may broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more.
This resource also searches the Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online.
Alternate titles: CLR; Children's literature review online; CMLC; Classical and medieval literature criticism online; LC; Literature criticism from fourteen hundred to eighteen hundred; PC; SC; Shakespearean criticism yearbook; SSC; 19th century literature criticism; NCLC; TCLC; CLC Autobiography series SAAS; SATA autobiography series; Something about the author autobiography series; DLBYB; DLB documentary series; DLBDS
Published by: Gale/Cengage Learning, Inc.
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains over 850,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Published by: ProQuest
Sometimes you may need or want to look for information that helps you understand a work of literature, even if it doesn't specifically mention that work. For example, in the case of a paper on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," you might be interested in historical research about mourning practices in the 1800s or psychological research about grief. For sources that don't talk directly about a work of literature, but may help you better understand the setting, time period, or themes of a work of literature, consider the databases below.
This resource provides concrete literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains full-text coverage of hundreds of journals and books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years.
Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, the database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.
More than 3.5 million records spanning the 1880s to the present; covering roughly 2,500 journals in psychology and the behavioral sciences, including over 200 neuroscience titles. 99% of the journals are peer reviewed. Includes citations and abstracts to articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and selected dissertations.
Gender Studies Database combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.