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The HJF has a large selection of books & eBooks regarding this topic. Below is a list of suggested subject terms for literary criticism and related topics. This is not an exhaustive list, but a list to offer helpful suggestions and get you started. When you click the link, you will get search results for books the library provides access to regarding that subject area. A small list of recommended titles has been assembled to offer further aid. Once again, this is by no means an exhaustive list.
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“JSTOR includes journal content, primary sources, images, and more across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences” (JSTOR 2011). Although most content found here is full-text, researchers may also find links to articles that are not available online through Morningside. The HJF Library provides access through JSTOR to 15 Arts & Sciences Collections and 1 Life Science Collection.
💻 MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
“Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers. MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography" (EBSCOhost 2019).
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🌐 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
"An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes" freely available from Bartleby.com, this work is "considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published,...contain[ing] over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing."
🌐 Library of Southern Literature (UNC)
This collection begins with some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century.
🌐 Resources in American Literature and Culture (Columbia)
Contains links to American Studies resources, associations, e-texts, Native American sites, Early American Literature materials, Nineteenth-century materials, museums and libraries, Women's Studies materials and Interesting courses using the web.
Wonderful resource which features short biographies on poets, select poems from authors, and critical articles on the authors. Go here to find background information on poets, main themes in their work, and an overview of their work.
Information about poets and poetry from the Academy of American Poets, including full text of poems and essays on poetry, as well as audio recordings and video files.
Contains reviews, essays, and biographical information about 150 modern poets.