Choose Literature as your subject in the Articles & databases tab on the Library's homepage.
Before you go about exploring other literature databases, you may want to give Artemis a try. It is a portal for searching Literature Resource Center database which provides access to full text biographies, critical analyses, reviews, and bibliographies of work from novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
A full list of relevant databases can be found on the Literature databases page. Below are just some of the more popular resources.
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Access to articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports from almost all academic areas of study, including literature. |
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Full text of plays by playwrights from the USA, the Caribbean, and English-speaking countries in Africa. Excellent source for Harlem Renaissance writers. |
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A searchable collection of the complete runs (minus the most recent 2 to 5 years) of hundreds of the most significant scholarly journals, including many in the field of literary criticism. |
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| MLA International Biography
Index to scholarly journal articles on language and literature. Coverage from 1926 to the present (Note: many are not available at John Jay.) |
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Project MUSE - Standard Collection An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals. |
You can also search multiple databases using EBSCO's discovery search.