Literature

NCLive.org is available from any computer with internet access; you can use it at all Gaston County Public Libraries or at home with your library card number.

The Books and Literature section of NCLive.org contains two databases that feature literary criticism:
Go to: https://www.nclive.org/browse#subject-5

• ABC-CLIO e-Book Collection includes the series “Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers” and the “Student Casebooks” series. Search by author’s name.
  Go to: https://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=229

Search the library Catalog by:

• Subject for author’s name (last name first)
  • “Poe, Edgar Allan”
  • “Shakespeare, William”
• Keyword for author’s name
  • “Edgar Allan Poe”
  • “William Shakespeare”
• Keyword for literary terms
  • “Harlem Renaissance”
  • “Elizabethan Drama”

Start your research with the online index to literary criticism sets published by Gale.
Go to: http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

However, the index will include volumes and sets that the library does not own. See the following list to view the sets and volumes owned by the Gaston County Public Library:

Literature Criticism Resources in Reference Area

• R810.9 AME LC. American Writers (Scribners) + Supplements.
• R810.9896 AFR LC. African American Writers (Scribners). Volumes 1 – 2.
• R820.9 BRI LC. British Writers (Scribners) + Supplements.
• R822.33 SHA LC. Shakespearean Criticism. Volumes 1 – 67.
  • Missing: 36, 49.

• R809.04 C. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Volumes 1 – 269.
  • Missing: 21 – 24.
• R809.04 N. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Volumes 1 – 118.
  • Missing: 80 – 82.
• R809.04 T. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Volumes 1 – 128.
  • Missing: 87 – 90.
• R928 C. Contemporary Authors. Volumes 1 – 257.
  • Missing: 177 – 180; 237 – 256.
• R928 S. Something About the Author. Volumes 1 – 271.
  • Missing: 109 – 111.
• R928.1 DIC. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volumes 1 – 368.
  • Missing: 26, 53, 214 – 219.