LibGuides: ENL 2012 Wilson: Library and Web Resources

Literary Databases and Websites

Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Literature Resources from Gale This link opens in a new window Includes over 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window Focuses on a centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary database of mostly older scholarly journals in full text.

Librivox
Offers an extensive collection of free audio books (public domain) read by volunteers.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Most of these are from the literary canon and in the public domain.
SPC Library Catalog
Google Books