ENGL 276 World Literature

This is a convenient database to do background research on your author, the location and time period of your literary work, or to get more comfortable with literary terms.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works and literary movements. This databases specializes in the study of literature.

JSTOR provides full-text of core scholarly journals in many subject areas, but has especially strong coverage of journals in the humanities.

Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books. Select "Only content I have access to" under ACCESS to find readily available full-text.

This multidisciplinary database can be a rich source for book reviews and author profiles and interviews.

The New York Times is an excellent source of current articles and book reviews. Coverage is available back to the mid-19th century, so articles available when your work was published may be readily available.