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Literary Criticism & Author Biography Subject Guide

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  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff LION (Literature Online Complete)

    Coverage: varies
    Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association - Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    MLA International Bibliography offers detailed records of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's. The bibliography contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Literature Resource Center

    Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

  • Free online resource Gale Literary Index

    Coverage: current
    A master index to every literary series published by Gale. Search by a literary work's title or look for authors by name, birth date, death date, or nationality.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Project Muse

    Searchable full-text of select journals in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.

    Access Free Sample Books on Project MUSE Beta Site


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