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LIT 3310: Survey of American Literature
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Find Articles
Find articles on literature using the databases below.
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Try the Online Resources for even more databases.
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- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- Gale Literature This link opens in a new window An integrated research experience, Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Articles and critical content on authors from all time periods and genres. Search by author's name, time period, or title.
- Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
- Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
- Poetry & Short Story Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers.
- Salem Literature This link opens in a new window Critical reviews and essays on several classic works and authors.
Try using the following key words to search either the online catalog or the featured databases:
- Literary Criticism American General
- Literature and History United States
- American (Fiction/Poetry/Biography/Short Story) 20th Century (or 21st Century) History
- Literature and Society United States History 20th Century
- Ethnicity in Literature *and* Americanization
- American Fiction Minority Authors History and Criticism
- American Fiction Women Authors History and Criticism
- LGBTQ+ Literary Criticism
- Homosexuality and Literature United States History 20th Century
- American Literary Regionalism *and* Reportage Literature
- Postmodernism Literary Criticism
- Magical Realism Contemporary American Literature
- Spatial Narrative American Literature
- Psychic Trauma in Literature
Resources
- African-American History Online This link opens in a new window African-American History Online covers more than 500 years of African-American history from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Included are topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, and maps and charts.
- American History Online This link opens in a new window Articles, images, videos, maps and charts that cover more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
- American Indian History Online This link opens in a new window Articles, images, videos, and maps covering more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
- Biography Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Encyclopedic articles in the following subject areas: biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
- NoveList Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Created especially for people who love books, NoveList Plus is the premier online database for reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. Helping readers of all ages find just the right book to read, this comprehensive source of popular and professional book information includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
- Salem Literature This link opens in a new window Critical reviews and essays on several classic works and authors.