Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism

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Print Resources

Literary Criticism will be located throughout the 800s and may be searched by author or title in the Online Catalog.

Literary Criticism in the Reference collections include:

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Literature and Its Times

Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

To search for criticism within the Reference collections, follow these directions:

Select Literature Resource Center on the Databases page.

Select Gale Literary Index.

Search by author or title.

~ eBooks in Literary Criticism from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

Example search: enter "Brave New World" and "criticism" in two separate search boxes

Change "Select a Field" to "SU Subject Terms"

Click search or hit enter and select articles.

Example search: enter "Huckleberry Finn" and criticism in the search box

Change search type from natural language to Boolean operator and click search or hit enter.

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Example search:

Click Advanced Search

Enter To Kill a Mockingbird in a search box and change the drop-down menu to Title-Exact Match

Select Critical Essay in the Document Type menu

Click search or hit enter; select essays.

~ Poetry, short stories, plays, speeches

Example search:

Enter Nineteen eighty-four (book) in the subject headings search box and click search.

Click on the hyperlinked subject Nineteen eighty-four (book) and select article.

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Internet Resources

Literary Criticism

American Transcendentalism ~ Scroll down and click Criticism. From Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection ~ An extensive gateway to critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works. Browse by author, title, or literary period.

Literary Resources on the Net ~ A gateway to scholarly sites. Includes sections for Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian British, 20th Century British & Irish. From Rutgers University.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Criticism ~ An extensive index of web sites. Click on general criticism or criticism of individual plays.

Huck Finn Resources

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ from the Online Literary Criticism Collection, the Internet Public Library.

Finding Jim Behind the Mask: The Revelation of African American Humanity in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Leslie Gregory, Florida Gulf Coast University

Why Huck Finn Belongs in the Classroom ~ By Jocelyn Chadwick, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn.

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Created by N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last update: 2/11/08