ENG 242 - British Literature II: Finding Literary Criticism
This course covers selected works in British literature from the
Romantic Period to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected
prose, poetry, and drama.
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Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews.
Why Use the Library
Credible authors and journals
93 American Literature journals to search (to see a list click here)
Subject-specific databases to search
Databases of online eBooks containing criticisms
When using the Library, use keywords.
These are the words you type into the search box. Hold multi-word keywords together with quotations. Use AND, OR, or NOT to tell the databases what you want or don't want.
"Song of Myself" AND Whitman AND criticism
"Tell-Tale Heart" AND Poe AND criticism
"Walt Whitman" AND "Song of Myself" AND criticism NOT review