Databases & Websites for Literary Research
Literary research requires knowing how to analyze a work of literature. Use the following reference sources for information on analyzing literature.
- A New Handbook of Literary Terms by David Mikics
- Critical Literary Lenses (Pellissippi State Community College Libraries)
- Literary Elements (Pellissippi State Community College Libraries)
- Comparing/Contrasting Literary Works, Characters, or Authors (Pellissippi State Community College Libraries)
- The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales - The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales (OACCT) is a volume of introductory chapters for first-time, university-level readers of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The chapters have been created and edited by professional scholars of Chaucer, and all material is released open access and free of charge for classroom, scholarly, and personal use.
Research Databases
START HERE
Start with these literature-specific research databases to learn more about the literary work, author, or movement you are researching.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
(GALE) Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources. Note: for Biographies, use the Person Search and filter results to Biographies.
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Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) Criticisms, synopses, and reviews of authors and their works, full-text poems, short stories, and classic novels, as well as full text from over 400 literary journals.
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Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window
(Infobase/Facts on File) Essays and criticism examining the lives of great authors and their works throughout history.
DIG DEEPER
Find more information about your topic by learning more about a person, literary movement, or historical period in Credo Reference. Or find scholarly articles in Project Muse and JSTOR.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
(Credo) Includes materials from over 650 full-text reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
(Johns Hopkins University Press) Full text of journal articles in literature, history, international/cultural studies, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
(Ithaka Harbors) Includes full-text back issues of selected peer-reviewed journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
(GALE) Gale eBooks offers broad cross-curricular collection of non-fiction titles, supporting science, geography, history, language arts, business and other subjects.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) A scholarly multi-disciplinary database that provides full text, indexing, and abstracts, videos and images from journals, magazines and newspapers. Full text of articles from 6500+ journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
BRITISH HISTORY & CULTURE
- A Brief History of Great Britain: Provides history of Britain from ancient times to present.
- English History: People, Places and Events That Built a Country: Guide to key events, people and places in English history from prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times.
RESEARCH DATABASES BY SUBJECT
All research databases, organized by subject/topic
Off-Campus Library Database Access
For off-campus access to the library databases, you will need to sign in with your MyLoneStar email address and password or enter your 14-digit library barcode from the back of your LSC student ID card.
Don't have a 14-digit library barcode? Request one online. Your library barcode will be emailed to your LSC email address within 48 hours.
