Literature

General Literature Resources

Literature Dictionaries and Guides (Credo) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Online dictionaries and guides to literature topics.
Literature Dictionaries and Guides (Oxford Online Reference) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Online dictionaries and guides to literature topics.
Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)
Online database for humanities that includes links to many online resources in literature, history and art.

Journals and Journal Articles

Academic Search Complete (EbscoHost) ( For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Full-text database that covers many academic disciplines. (Title List)
JSTOR (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Full-text archive of over 500 scholarly journals of major importance in many fields. Most titles are available from their first issue up to 2-5 years ago. (Title List)
Literature Journals - CU's Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Browsable list of full-text journals available on the topic of literature and poetry
MLA Bibliography (EbscoHost) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Abstracts of articles focusing on folklore, literature, languages and linguistics. (1963-present)

American Literature

Biographical Information about American Authors ()
Generates a list of books about American authors that are available in the CU Collection.
Books about American Literature in the CU Collections ()
A list of books on the topic of American Literature.
Guide to the 20th Century American Short Story (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Essays on major American writers and themes by literary scholars.
Oxford Companion to American Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Biographical profiles of authors and summaries of major works.
Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States ()
Survey of women writers across four centuries of American history. Includes biographical entries on poets, novelists, and playwrights and examines literary theory in the context of women's writing.
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing American literary history from the 1600s to the 21st century. Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works, literary movements, periods, and themes.

Book Reviews

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) - Book Reviews (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Type "book review" in the first search box and the book title in the second search box to locate book reviews.
Book Reviews from BookSpot.com (http://www.bookspot.com/reviews/)
Provides links to newspaper, magazine and other online review sites. Browse reviews by genre and author.

Children's Literature

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Search for children's books by keyword, genre, age, and lexile range. Includes more than 1,400,000 records and over 300,000 reviews--all full text searchable.
Children's Literature in the CU Collections ()
Books about Children's Literature. Ask a librarian about our collection of children's books.
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature (http://www.dawcl.com/search.asp)
Over 4,900 records from 57 awards for children's literature. Multiple search options including reader's age, format and genre.
NW Center for Children's Literature (NWCCL) (http://www.nwccl.org/)
A preview collection of the latest publications in children's literature. Located in the Hagen Center on the CU campus. Holdings are included in CU library's library catalog.
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Covers stories and characters from Ali Baba to Tom Thumb, along with writers who wrote and reworked them. Entries on artists such as Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, and Maurice Sendak are included.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Includes brief biographies of major authors and illustrators. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes. International scope.

Classical and Medieval Literature

Luminarium (http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm)
Comprehensive site covering medieval, renaissance, and 17th Century literature.
Online Medieval and Classical Library (http://omacl.org/)
Collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Oxford Companion to Chaucer (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Entries provide information on Chaucer's life and times, his works and the characteristics of them, his language and metre, his reading and the creative uses he made of it, and his major moral and literary themes.
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Lives of classical writers, plot summaries and history of tragedy and comedy.

Detective Fiction

Agatha Christie companion ()
Book in CU Libraries' main collection. Call#: PR6005.H66 Z65 1980
Detective Fiction in the CU Collections ()
A list of detective fiction books in the CU Collections.
Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Entries cover biographies of great mystery writers, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Rex Stout, and Ruth Rendell, as well as favourite sleuths, such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, and Adam Dalgliesh, and master criminals.
Silk Stalkings More Women Write of Murder (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
An electronic book in CU's Collection. Requires a NetLibrary Account to access.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories ()
Book in CU Libraries' main collection. Call#: PR1309.D4 O94 1992

E-Books

Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/index.html)
A collection of full-text online reference and literature works.
ManyBooks.net (http://manybooks.net//)
Thousands of free e-books in the public domain with options for downloading to a computer or pda.
Net Library (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Thousands of e-books available to CU students and faculty.
Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)
More than 18,000 free e-books in the public domain.

English Literature

Biographical Information about English Authors ()
A list of books about English authors that are available in the CU Collections.
Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Biographical information, brief descriptions of works and definitions of literary terms.
English Literature in the CU Collections ()
A list of books on the topic of English Literature in the CU Collections
Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction ()
Examines British fiction-writing from 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War. Classics of the period, genres, social developments and themes, and entries on several women writers are included.
Oxford Companion to English Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters. Also includes essays on key topics.
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature ()
Covers history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). Includes accounts of authors, themes, movements, genres, and institutions.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Fantasy Books in the CU Collections ()
A list of books from the online catalog including fantasy fiction works and books about fantasy fiction.
Nebula Awards (http://www.sfwa.org/awards/)
A directory of past winners and nominees for the Nebula Award, an annual book award from the organization, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (http://sffrd.library.tamu.edu/)
An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror
Science Fiction Books in the CU Collections ()
A list of books from the online catalog including science fiction works and books about science fiction.

Poetry

Academy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/)
Find poems and information about poets.
Modern American Poetry (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/about.htm)
A clearinghouse for criticisms on the poets of our time. It auguments the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry in English (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Biographical profiles of poets, commentary on works and definitions on terms and movements.
Poetry Archive (http://www.emule.com/poetry/)
Searchable database of poems by title, author or first-line keywords.
Poetry in the CU Collections ()
A list of books about and/or containing poetry in the CU collection..
The Poetry Resource by Patrick Martin (http://www.pmpoetry.com)
Contains poet's biographies & works, poetry from around the world, poetry collections, poetry publishers, poetry forums and links to literary associations.

Related Subjects

History (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=20)
Writing Resources (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=10)

Shakespeare

Books about Shakespeare in CU Collections ()
A list of books in the CU Collections that are about Shakespeare.
Edward DeVere Studies Conference (http://www.deverestudies.org/)
Site of the Annual Shakespeare Authorship Conference held at Concordia.
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Guide to Shakespeare's plays and poetry. Written by a team of renowned scholars.
Shakespeare Fellowship Links (http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/links.html)
A broad cross-section of resources on Shakespeare scholarship, performance and pedagogy. Includes links to the Shakespeare authorship question.
William Shakespeare and the Internet (http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm)
An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet.
Works by Shakespeare in the CU Collections ()
A list of books and video performances of Shakespeare's works in the CU collections.

World Literature

New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Covers ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called France. Includes literary output of other French-speaking countries around the world.
Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Contains entries on writers, plays, novels, poems, anthologies, literary prizes, movements, and professional organizations. Also includes plot summaries, detailed biographies, and essay-length articles on Aboriginal writing.
Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Contains over 1,100 entries on the following topics: fiction, prose, poetry, drama, prominent writers, literary magazines, and publishers.
Oxford Companion to German Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Covers literature from German-speaking countries from the eighth century to the mid–1990s. Entries cover authors and their major works, as well as historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds.
Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Covers the early thirteenth century to the present. Includes historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory.
Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Contains more than 1,500 entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements, and professional organizations.