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Many works of literature are out of copyright and available digitally through Google Books.
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Online Literature Collections
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica - BúsquedaDigital collections from the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
- Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
Poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
- Fons digitalitzatsDigital collections from the Biblioteca de Catalunya.
- Hispana. Directorio y recolector de recursos digitales > Digital collectionsComprehensive digital resources directory from the Ministerio de Cultura, Spain.
- Teatro Espaol del Siglo de Oro This link opens in a new window
Full-text of the most important dramatic works of 16th and 17th century Spain.
- Voice of the ShuttleA excellent listing of Internet resources covering many language groups. Includes general and author-specific Web sites. Maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Finding Books on Literary Criticism
Include the phrases "criticism and interpretation" or "history and criticism" in a DELCAT Discovery keyword search. Use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard, as in the example below.
Some example searches:
- Cervantes "criticism and interpretation"
- "Latin America* drama" "history and criticism"
Library Databases for Literary Criticism
- Book Review Digest Plus/Book Review Digest Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Indexes, citations and excerpts to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Includes some full-text reviews. (Coverage: Book Review Digest Plus, 1983 -- | Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982)
- Literature Online Complete This link opens in a new window
Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, as well as biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Primary works represent a collection of thousands of works by influential authors as well as the works of lesser known or now forgotten literary figures. (Coverage: 8th century --)
- Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 authors and their works in all disciplines, all time periods, and from around the world.
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Every issue of the TLS published from 1902-2019. Identification of anonymous contributors is included, allowing users to explore in greater depth the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. (Coverage 1902-2019)
