Contents:
Reference Materials
| Reviews & Literary Criticism
| Concordances
| Literature: Study and Teaching
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
Reference Materials & Subject Directories
- ALA Notable Books of the Year [with archives back to 1993]
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies [bibliographic database for articles, dissertations, books, reviews, audio/video materials, and government documents; includes materials in Russian, Czech, Latvian, Polish, French, German, English, and other languages] (Penn State Users Only)
- Americas Book Awards for Children's and Young Adult Literature [Description from website: "given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States"]
- American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Contains biographical and critical essays on 1,328 American women writers covering all genres and all periods of American history" (description from website, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Annee Philologique [database index of periodicals, books and essays in classics and classical studies--Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography--from 1969-to date, searchable by author, text, subject, and discipline] (Penn State Users Only)
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature [Description from website: "contains more than 870,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world; unpublished doctoral dissertations are covered for the period 1920-1999. The bibliography consists of 79 volumes, beginning in 1920 and issued annually; a number of items published between 1892 and 1919 have been indexed retrospectively."] (Penn State Users Only)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index [Part of the Web of Science, this citation database provides standard search options--author, subject term, journal title--but also contains the bibliographies of indexed articles, providing access by cited references; available 1975-date, updated weekly.] (Penn State Users Only)
- Award Winners [lists current and past winners of literature-related prizes in a number of categories--children's literature, general nonfiction, literary fiction, mystery, poetry, sci/fi, and alternative; includes prizes such as Nobel, Pulitizer, Caldecott, and Man Booker, and many others] (powells.com)
- Bestseller: Daily Top 10 Books by Subject (Barnes and Noble)
- Book Fairs and Other Literary Events: A selection of events across the U.S.A. and around the world (Center for the Book, Library of Congress)
- Book List Center [website offers "346 book lists in 82 categories"]
- BookSpot [site contains lists of bestsellers, book awards, book reviews, sources of online books and first chapters, reading lists, genre resources, author biographies, publishers' directories, and other book-related resources]
- BUBL Link: Catalogue of Internet Resources: Literature and Rhetoric [selected internet resources covering literature and rhetoric, searchable by author, title, subject, decriptor, resource type, and Dewey classification number; clean, user-friendly interface]
- Cambridge Encyclopedia of English and American Literature [eighteen volume encyclopedia covering English and American literature from Old English through early 20th century sources, with some non-English materials included] (Bartleby.com)
- Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Covers the history of children's books from pre-Norman times to the present, respecting the canon but also recognizing current developments in publishing practices and in children's own reading, featuring not only traditional literary content, but also television, comics, annuals and the growing range of media texts." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Databases [database with 900,000+ records, searchable by genre, age, language, reviews, reviewer, author/illustrator, series, awards, reading lists, and other classifiers] (Penn State Users Only)
- Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Centry American Short Story [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature ["...accounts of the lives of many classical authors and character entries and plot summaries for their works. General entries trace the development of literary forms such as comedy and tragedy. There is also wide coverage of the historical, political, social, and artistic background." (from website, 4/13/07)] (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Authors (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Novelists [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Poets [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets,...personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and...a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works...." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literature in English [covers writers from Africa, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Canada, United Kingdom, with commentary, political and religious contexts, bibliographies] (USingapore)
- Copyright Records (LOCIS)[database of copyright holders for books, records, films, art, documents, and other formats]
- Copyright Renewal Database [searchable database of "copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963." (website, 4/30/2007)](Stanford)
- Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature [searchable by age, ethnicity, historical period, language, format, genre, multicultural elements] (Lisa Bartle)
- Digital Book Index [Description from website: Full text database containing "12,000 basic texts in English & American Literature, ... 3000+ Short Stories, Diaries, Sagas, and Ballads; along with 2500+ volumes of Canadian, Australian, ancient Greek & Latin, French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Indian (limited), Chinese (limited), & Japanese (limited) literatures...3000 volumes of Poetry and more than 3000 volumes by women writers"]
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online [contains numerous catalougues of books published in the 18th century] (Penn State Users Only)
- Eighteenth Century Resources--Literature [bibliographies and resources pertaining to 18th century literature, categorized by genre, period, author, as well as links to the full text for most of the century's English literature currently available on the Internet] (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
- Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of the Novel [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- English Short Title Catalogue [Description from website: "provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language-as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world...from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700"] (Penn State Users Only)
- English Studies Information Server: Basic Reading Lists [lists of basic readings of fiction and nonfiction categorized by country, state, city, or region--Australia, Florida, San Francisco, the Southwest, et al] (UMannheim)
- Folger Shakespeare Library [biography, timeline, synopses of Shakespeare's works]
- Heath Anthology of American Literature [contains resources for General American literature and literature by period through 1865; includes native American oral histories, literature and essays relating to Spanish exploration and conquest, missionaries in the Southwest, and the formation of the American "self"; links to primary sources in e-format]
- Index Antiquus [search engine for ancient and medieval studies] (Montclair)
- Index Translationum [Description from website: "database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than 1,500,000 entries in all disciplines," including literature] (Penn State Users Only)
- Index Translationum [see above description; freely available on Internet]
- International Medieval Bibliography [LIAS database description: indexes "articles in journals, conference proceedings, and essay collections published worldwide...dealing with the period 400-1500 and published since 1967....Subject areas include: Classics, Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) [LIAS database description: an index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields of knowledge, and is particularly strong in the humanities and the social sciences. Over 11,000 periodicals are indexed by this multilingual database, now containing over 1.7 million records. It is international in scope, and indexes a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent. Coverage: 1984-present Current edition. Updates: Continuous"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Intute: Arts & Humanities [huge collection of online Humanities resources organized by subjects, including Linguistics, Classics, English Studies, Comparative Literature, European Languages, Literature and Culture, and Asiatic, African, American and Australasian Languages, Literature and Culture, and by genre]
- ITER: Gateway to to the Middle Ages and Renaissance [interdisciplinary database containing citations for books, articles, and selected reviews pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700AD); subset Iter Italicum provides descriptions of Renaissance manuscripts in libraries and archives worldwide. Also includes International Directory of Scholars, people and institutions working in the field.] (Penn State Users Only)
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism [From the Guide: "a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods."] (Penn State Users Only)
- Librarian's Index to the Internet: Literature & Books [listing of librarian-compiled and evaluated links on various literary topics, including criticism, reader's advisory, children's literature, awards, full-text, reviews, e-books, and much more]
- Literary Encyclopedia [author profiles, works, and literary and historical topics; currently under development; free access to basic features, but subscription required for full range of services (Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.)]
- Literary Resources on the Net [Description from website: "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." Also some representative links to classical, Biblical, ethnic, and other national literatures] (Lynch, Rutgers)
- Literature Online [full texts of over 330,000 literary works, of key literary reference works, and of several dozen journals, plus indexing of others sources] (Penn State Users Only)
- MLA Bibliography [LIAS database description: "A worldwide index of references to journal articles, dissertations, books, and parts of books pertaining to modern literatures, folklore, film, drama, languages, and linguistics. It excludes book, drama, and film reviews. Includes indexing from 1963 to the present, and incorporates the MLA Directory of Periodicals"] (Penn State Users Only)
- National Book Awards [listing of National Book Award winners since 1950] (wikipedia.org)
- New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Online Reference Shelf: Directories of Literary Associations
- ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies [contains an online encyclopedia, reference collection, and full-text of primary sources in medieval studies] (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
- Outline of American Literature ["key Internet sites on American literature"] (U.S. Dept of State, International Information Programs)
- Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford Reference Online) ["...authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included." (from website, 4/13/07)] (Penn State Users Only)
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project [contains bibliographies and biographies for 422 American authors, with bibliographies and explanatory notes included in numerous appendices] (Paul P. Reuben)
- Poetess Archive [description from database: "a bibliography of over 4,000 entries for works by and about writers working in and against the "poetess tradition," the extraordinarily popular, but much criticized, flowery poetry written in Britain and America between 1750 and 1900" (description from database, 12/11/06] (muohio.edu)
- Post-Colonial Studies [site provides listings for authors, theorists, terms and issues related to post-colonial literature and theory, with links to remote sites and online journals] (Emory)
- Reading is Fundamental: Booklists [reading lists for children, by broad subject areas]
- Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Provides biographical and critical essays on 223 writers connected to or concerned with the Holocaust, as well as separate essays on 307 of their works." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Reference Guide to Short Fiction [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "biographical and critical essays on 376 of the most important writers of short fiction writing in English worldwide, and 403 separate essays on selected works. Also includes some authors of note who did not write in English, but whose works have been widely translated and are often studied, such as Anton Chekhov and Jean-Paul Sartre. Most authors covered were born after 1750, but a few important figures from earlier periods are included as well." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Reference Guide to World Literature [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "biographical and critical essays on authors from throughout the world, as well as essays covering specific work or works of an author, with criticism and analysis of those works." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources [bibliographies, concordances, chronologies] (UMd)
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English [a reference component of Literature Online] (Penn State Users Only)
- Sac LitWeb [brief chronologies/bibliographies arranged by literary period and/or genre, with links to some full text] (Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., Alamo Community College District)
- Victorian Studies Bibliography [description from database: "noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) that have a bearing on the Victorian period....annually indexes over 400 journals, representing scholarship in a range of disciplines"] (Indiana University Press)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English [links to a broad spectrum of literature resources: Anglo-Saxon & medieval through contemporary British & American, minority literatures, other literatures In English, English lit by genre, creative writing, history of the book, and literature teaching resources] (UCSB)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature Other than English [links to general resources in Literature other than English: African, Arabic, Chinese, Classical, Dutch, Eastern European, French, Gaelic & Celtic, German, Greek, Guatemalan, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish & Portuguese, subcontinental, Turkish, Welsh, and other Non-English literatures] (UCSB)
- Whitman Annotated Bibliography [description from database: "articles, books, chapters of books, and poems about Whitman, published from 1975 to the present...thousands of entries in the database, most of which are annotated"]
- World Shakespeare Bibliography [database containing scholarly and popular materials about Shakespeare published from 1972-to date, with articles, book reviews, and dissertations, stage productions, film adaptations, production & cast information, performance reviews, audiovisual & electronic materials] (Penn State Users Only)
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Criticism, Reviews, & Theory
- African American Literature Book Club [book reviews, author profiles, writer resources]
- African Literature on the Internet [includes links to book review sites, Africa's 100 best books--children's, fiction, & non-fiction, awards, exhibitions, criticism, and many more links] (Columbia)
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature [see description above] (Penn State Users Only)
- Arts and Letters Daily: Book Reviews [a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education, site covers aesthetics, literature, criticism, philosophy, book reviews, new books, current news and affairs, with links to newspapers and magazines]
- Asian American Booklist (NEA)
- Bilingual Booklist/Lectura Recomendada [for grades K-12] (NEA)
- black issues book review [fiction, non-fiction, children's books, & young adult]
- Book Review Index [E-Resources List description, 12/14/06: "Provides quick access to reviews of books and other media appearing in more than 600 publications. Includes reviews published from 1965 to present. To locate the text of a review select the "Penn State Search" link."] (Penn State Users Only)
- BookBrowse.com [current book reviews across many genres, with excerpts and author interviews; some commercial content]
- Children's Literature Review [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- ChoiceReviews Online [Description from website: "CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts....ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988."] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Literary Criticism [component of Gale Literary Databases] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought [critical essays about postmodernism and profiles of postmodernists] (CUDenver)
- Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times;" also detailed studies of prominent women writers (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- FRANCIS [Decription from website: "FRANCIS is a core database covering international humanities and social sciences. It indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published in over 4,300 journals...strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature-with particular emphasis on current trends in European literature."] (RLG)(Penn State Users Only)
- Horn Book Guide Online [database of children's literature reviews, searchable by author, illustrator, subject, rating, and grade level] (Penn State Users Only)
- Hawthorne in Salem [includes biography, timeline, bibliography, and criticism; a recipient of EDSITEment's 2003-04 "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designation]
- International Virginia Woolf Society Annual Bibliography ["recent critical works directly related to Woolf (dissertations, articles, books, etc.) from 1996 and later" (website, 4/16/2007)]
- Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism [description from website: "critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period....selected with some thought to their overall usefulness."] (UMich)
- Kidsread.com [includes reviews, interviews, etc.]
- Literary Theory [database includes works written in English as well as translated works that are significant to the theory and ciritism of English and American literary history and traditions] (Penn State Users Only)
- Major 21st Century Writers [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "detailed biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on authors who are studied in high schools and colleges today. More than one thousand entries...." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Metacritic.com [reviews books, film, music "Metascores® show the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades" (from database, 1/16/07); includes best of the year lists]
- Modern American Literature [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "excerpts by noted critics on 489 of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century. Each author entry gathers a variety of critical approaches and shows the evolution of the critical reception of that author's work. The authors discussed exemplify the best American writing in a variety of genres, from poetry to expository essays,...." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- The Modern Word [critical papers, reviews, biographies, for post-modern writers]
- Monster Librarian [reviews of horror fiction for adults, teens, and children under 12]
- Mystery Reader [book reviews of mysteries, seachable by category]
- New York Review of Books Archives [by subscription, with some free full-text features]
- New York Times, Sunday Book Review [free registration; browsable by bestseller lists, awards, editor's picks, book reviews by author, title, keyword, from 1981 to present]
- NoveList [database of reviews for over 100,000 novels, searchable by author, title, series, themes, keyword, plot elements, publication date, genre, location, age group, lexile rating, and popularity; allows readers to create reading lists tailored to specific interests] (EBSCO) (Penn State Users Only)
- Proquest [broad interest full-text database including book reviews from 1987; searchable by author, title, journal or magazine title, keyword, date, and document type] (Penn State Users Only)
- Publishers Weekly [book reviews, bestseller lists, publishing industry resources]
- QBR: Black Book Review Online [includes list of "QBR Sacred 100," core black titles] (qbr.com)
- Recommended Literature (K-12) [Description from website: "a collection of outstanding literature for children and adolescents. The recommended titles reflect the quality and the complexity of the types of material students should be reading at school and outside of class."] (California Department of Education)
- Samuel Beckett On-line Resources and Links Pages (samuel-beckett.net)
- Times Literary Supplement [description from database: "the world's premier contemporary literary review in fully searchable image format" seachable by author, contributor, title, publisher, subject, article type, date] (Primary Source Media, The Gale Group) (Penn State Users Only)
- Victorian Web: Books in the Victorian Web [links to full text of books relating to Victorian literature, history, and culture] (victorianweb.org)
- Web of American Transcendentalism [texts, roots & criticism, ideas & thoughts, bibliographies & web links for Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Channing, Parker, Alcott, Very, Cranch, Brownson, Peabody, and others] (VCU)
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Concordances
- Concordance to the Complete Works of F.M.Dostoevsky [complete first-edition works of Dostoevsky--texts in Russian--searchable by words in the text]
- Iowa State Play Concordances [description from website: "concordances of ten plays, which can be searched, counted, and printed....contain either the complete dialogue for selected works or snippets of dialogue for the other play selections....designed for those interested in doing research on the word usage in these plays and does not contain criticism, information about staging, or spiffy pictures."]
- TSEBase: The Online Cordance to T.S. Eliot's Poems 1909-1962 [description from database: allows "word searches within the complete text of Eliot's Collected Poems without actually publishing the full texts of the poems online....intended to complement the printed text of Eliot's work,...most useful to those who have a copy of that text at hand to look up the context of individual lines."] (UMissouri)
- Victorian Literature Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordances [includes concordances for works of 200 authors from the Victorian period, Britain, Ireland, and America; also includes the Bible, histories of England and America, histories of British and American literature, and the works of William Shakespeare] (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)
- Web Concordances and Workbooks [concordances for poetry of Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Hopkins, Wordsworth, and Blake; supplementary literary guide workbooks for Blake, Keats, and Coleridge] (Dundee)
- World Languages: Web Concordances: Machado, Marti, Lorca, Neruda, Mistral, Altolaguirre, Vicente Aleixandre (spsu.edu, Dr. Bernice Nuhfer-Halten)
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Literature: Study and Teaching
- African American Literature: Courses and Syllabi (Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB)
- The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture [description from website: "constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites informed by cutting-edge scholarship."]
- Course Materials, including Study Guides to Various Works (Paul Brians, WSU)
- Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction [study guides for the science fiction literature of H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin, and others]
- Love in the Arts [compilation of study guides addressing the theme of love as expressed in literature from around the world, from ancient to modern times]
- Reason, Romanticism and Revolution Course Materials [study guides for literature, music, art of the Romantic movmemnt; impressionism and post-impressionism; socialism, communism, and capitalism; French, German, Russian influences]
- World Literature in English [study guides for representative anglophone literature from West and South Africa, India, and the Caribbean]
- Courses in English & American Literature [broad range of online courses from Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB]
- Drama For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes...includes an introduction that provides an overview of the play; a brief biography of the playwright; a plot summary; a discussion of the play's principal themes; understandable essays on the play's construction; excerpted critical commentary; and much more." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Edsitement: Literature and Language Arts [interesting site, with lesson plans and websites dedicated to study and teaching of literature and language arts, searchable by category and grade level] (NEH)
- Electronic Archives for the Teaching of American Literature [description from website: "The Electronic Archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States."] (Georgetown University)
- History of Jim Crow: Jim Crow in Literature
- KnowledgeNotesTMStudy Guides [a component of Literature Online, with 230 guides to literary works, alphabetized by author, each with sections about the author, bibliography, characters, plot, style, and themes and motifs] (Penn State Users Only)
- Literary Newsmakers For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: covers recent releases; provides "analysis and criticism on recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry....curriculum-related information researchers have come to expect from a more traditional reference..." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Literary Themes For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "designed very much with the curriculum-based standards and approaches to studying literature in mind, examines the overriding themes found in literature...helps students build critical thinking skills by making connections between thematically-similar works of literature, as well as providing a more global perspective by comparing and contrasting works from around the world." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- MITOpenCourseWare: Literature [description from website: "a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world"]
- Nonfiction Classics for Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs" (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Novels For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: covers "literary and historical significance of major works from various cultures and time periods, including concise synopses of plot, characters, and themes; a brief author biography; a discussion of the book's cultural and historical significance; and excerpted criticism." (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Poetry For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "new series is designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but information-rich reference source, each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses." (description from database, 12/11/06] (Penn State Users Only)
- Romantic Circles: Pedagogies (UMd)
- Short Stories For Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes, along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism...." (description from database, 12/11/06] (Penn State Users Only)
- SwissEduc: English Page: Reading List [recommended reading lists by author for classroom and personal reading for upper secondary students, with synopsis, audio presentations, author biographies, information about setting/locale, movie adaptations; also lists upcoming programs on literature on television and radio, by featured author]
- VCCS Litonline [description from website: "a writing-intensive World Wide Web-based English 112 (English Composition II), developed for the Virginia Community College System (VCCS)....can be used as an introduction to literature or as a composition and research course designed to develop students' critical thinking."] (Virginia Community College System)
- VN: Virtual Nabakov [online study guide modules currently available for Mary, Nabokov's first novel and The Defense, Nabokov's third novel; users can also enroll in a virtual class, with dialog between the teacher and students] (Jeff Edmunds, PSU)
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See also these PSU Libraries' related pages
Arts & Humanities Library
Education & Behavioral Sciences Library
Gateway Library
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