Research Databases - ENG 231 / ENG 232 - American Literature - LibGuides at Durham Technical Community College

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Databases and Electronic Resources

Gale Literature: LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
JSTOR
JSTOR contains scholarly journal articles from many subject areas including Sociology, Literature, Arts, History, and Humanities.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
The series provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.

Credo Reference- Online Encyclopedias

Credo Reference features more than 600 online reference books. You'll find helpful topic pages, articles from encyclopedias in many disciplines, and links to articles in other library databases.

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Credo Reference features hundreds of encyclopedias and dictionaries. This is a great source for background reading about a topic.