Madigan Library

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.  Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.  A good full-text resource.

JSTOR

Another good full-text resource for literary criticism.  Be sure to select 'Language & Literature' from the list of disciplines.

Art & Humanities Search

Provides complete indexing for more than 1,130 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines.  Not a full-text resource.

General Resources

PN771 .C59
Contemporary Literary Criticism. / Riley, Carolyn.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

PN761 .N56
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism. / Harris, Laurie Lanzen.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

PN771 .T94
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

Story Resources

PS374 .S5 C57 2000
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. / Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

PN3321 .C7 1993 vol. 1-7
Critical Survey of Short Fiction. / Magill, Frank Northen, 1907-.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

PN3373 .S386
Short Story Criticism.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

Poetry Resources

PR502 .C85 1992 vol. 1-8
Critical Survey of Poetry. / Magill, Frank Northen, 1907-.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

PN1010 .P499
Poetry Criticism. / Gale Research Inc.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

Play Resources

PN1601 .D59
Drama Criticism.
Main Library - Reference Collection - 1st Fl.

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

A very well-done guide by Elizabeth E. Kirk, a librarian at Johns Hopkins University.