Articles - English: Program - Literary & Cultural Studies (LCS)

Core Databases

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Here, you'll find a list of major databases that contain full-text and/or citations for a variety of journals relevant to English. These are good starting points for research in various areas related to English studies:

Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles and has extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive.
Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new window
supplies biographical and bibliographical information and references on over 120,000 American and international authors.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
has full-text access (with a search interface) to important academic journals, including 80 language and literature journals.

Literature Resource Center
provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Our licence allows only one user at a time. Be sure to log-out when you are done.

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
provides 100% full-text access to university press journals and over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Proquest Direct
provides convenient search and retrieval from thousands of publications. Many articles are in full-text and image format.

Finding More Journals

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Here are some major literary criticism titles:

American literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography (Print at Hunt Library, shelved by title)

Art Criticism (Print at Hunt Library, shelved by title)

Criticism (Print at Hunt Library, shelved by title)

Essays on Criticism (Print at Hunt Library, shelved by title)

Literary Gazette (Journal of Criticism, Science, and the Arts) (online; requires authentication)

Yale Journal of Criticism (Print at Hunt Library, shelved by title)

If you know the title of the journal, then you can search to see if it is available online and if the article is also available. Online journals vary in availability, so be sure to check listed dates.

In addition, you can get a list of e-journals by catagory (Literature is listed as a subcategory of Art and Humanities).

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English: Program - Literary & Cultural Studies (LCS): Articles

Core Databases

Finding More Journals