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LITERATURE

BOOKS

Search the Online Catalog to locate materials in the Surry Community College Library. Browse the call number range PN 1 - PN 6790 for Literature (General), browse the call number range PQ 1 - PQ 3999 for French Literature, browse the call number range PR 1 - PR 9680 for English Literature, and browse the call number range PS 1 - PS 3576 for American Literature.

  • Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color / REF PS 153 .N5 W756 2006

  • American Writers / REF PS 129 .A55

  • Magill's Survey of American Literature / REF PS 21 .M34 2007

  • Reference Guide to English Literature / REF PR 106 .S7 1991

  • Cambridge Guide to English Literature, The / REF PR 85 .C28 1983

  • British Writers / REF PR 85 .B688

  • Oxford Companion to French Literature, The / REF PQ 41 .H3 1969

  • Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations, The / REF PN 6081 .O89 2003

  • Cyclopedia of World Authors / REF PN 451 .M36 1997

  • Feminist Writers / PN 451 .A8 F46 1996
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ARTICLES

Search for articles in the databases listed below or browse all of the library databases.

  • JSTOR
    An archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
    [NOTE: Make sure to uncheck the box, "Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR" and to choose Type: Article, when looking for criticism.]

  • Literary Reference Center
    A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

  • SIRS
    A comprehansive resource for current topics on government, social issues and literature.

  • Academic Search Premier
    Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.

  • Humanities Full Text
    A Wilsonweb resource including art, communications, history, journalism, language & literature, music, religion, and performing arts as well as other related subjects.

  • Readers' Guide Full Text
    A Wilsonweb resource for indexing and abstracting of popular U.S. and Canada magazines.

  • Biography Reference Bank Select Edition
    Contains biographical articles from more than 100 volumes of reference books published by H. W. Wilson.
  • Britannica Online
    E-version of the encyclopedia plus dictionary and atlas.
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WEBSITES

  • Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
    "Since 1992, the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose: to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML texts and images; to build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials... The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images."

  • Literary Resources on the Net
    "This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics -- I've excluded most poetry journals, for instance."

  • Voice of the Shuttle -- Literature (in English)
    VOS is a major Web site with over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Keywords: english literature, american literature.

  • Literature.org
    "On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature."

  • Literature Network
    "We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes."

  • Internet Public Library: Literature
    A great list of literature websites.
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