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• Literature databases
• Gale Literary Series
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Literature Resource Center

What You'll Find: Online access to select content from the GALE Literature Criticism Series. Also includes criticism from 360 literary magazines.  

Literature Online Reference Center

What You'll Find: Search for criticism cited in Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literarture (ABELL) and MLA International Bibliography.  Links to fulltext articles available in JSTOR. Covers 300 literary journals.

More Databases Containing Criticism

Locate book available in the McCain Library containing critical essay on your author or work using Sophia (the Library online catalog).

The GALE Literary Criticism Series provides significant passages of published criticism on authors from various literary eras, regions, cultural groups, and forms of literature.  

Use the Gale Literary Index to determine which series and volume contains criticism on an author or work.  

 Access: Series volumes are available in print (through 2009) in the McCain Library Reference Collection and online (2009 - present) in Literature Criticism Online. 

More about access to the GALE Literary Criticism Series