EBSCOhost is a database that provides full-text articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and trade publications. Within EBSCO, you may choose to run a search through all of the databases, or select the database(s) you want.
Academic Search Elite
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
E-Book Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among the 175,000 multidisciplinary eBook titles, 15,823 e-books will be accessible with information relevant to the research’s needs.
E-Book Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among this collection, you may browse the category of Literature & Criticism where books on language teaching and learning, English literature, literary criticism, and more can be found.
This database hosts full-text, digital versions of books and academic journals primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences. There are also journals in the hard sciences.
JSTOR journals or books can be browsed by Subject by locating the “Humanities” section to find “Language & Literature.” You may also search using keywords in the standard search bar or by using the advanced search function.
Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. No other publisher offers this unmatched combination of uniquely rich literary content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing - all enriched by features and design that breathes new life into the study of literature.
Gale Literature: Gale Literary Index
A master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.
Gale Literature: Gale Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Gale Literature: Twayne's Authors Series
It provides in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements, and the development of literary genres. Includes basic and advanced search options as well as a browsing feature.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
It provides biographical and critical essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 authors from around the world. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context.
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)
Tennessee Electronic Library provides the full list of databases by subject. TEL hosts a wide range of content including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test prep materials, federal census records, and more in every subject imaginable. TEL also connects searchers to results from a multitude of databases through the use of a powerful search engine tool that can be found under “All Resources.” The main page of TEL also has a basic search engine that connects searchers directly to articles and eBooks with keyword searches.
You may go to “All Resources” and search in Gale Literature to the information about “English” and “Literature.”
Books & Authors
Looking for a good book, but not sure where to start? Books & Authors explores today’s popular fiction and non-fiction titles as well as the classics of yesterday. This is a great resource for readers' advisory.
LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
This database provides access to newspaper articles from around the world. The search tools on this site allow you to pinpoint articles about your topic by geographic region, publication, date, and more.
It provides Hot Topics for faculty and students with an easier path to locating topics of interest related to current global issues, events and people for personal and course research.
It provides you with suggested search topics in a range of fields. Choose a broad topic (e.g. Books & Authors) and subtopic (e.g. Literary Issues, Book Reviews), and Access World News will search for recent articles in that area.
This is a database that contains six separate sub-databases: African-American History, Issues & Controversies, Infobasebooks, CREDO Reference, Today’s Science, and World News Digest.
InfobaseBooks: Use InfobaseBooks to search hundreds of articles of literary criticism and literature reference resources. There are also titles available on multicultural studies discussing writers, poets, and authors of diverse backgrounds.