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.

• ABC-CLIO e-Book Collection includes the series “Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers” and the “Student Casebooks” series. Search by author’s name.
  
• Gale Literature Resource Center contains biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

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

• American Writers (Scribners) + Supplements. R810.9 AME LC.
• African American Writers (Scribners). Volumes 1 – 2. R810.9896 AFR LC.
• British Writers (Scribners) + Supplements. R820.9 BRI LC.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism. Volumes 1 – 269. R809.04 C.
  • Missing: 21 – 24.
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Volumes 1 – 128. R809.04 T
  • Missing: 87 – 90.
• Contemporary Authors. Volumes 1 – 257. R928 C.
  • Missing: 177 – 180; 237 – 256.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volumes 1 – 368. R928.1 DIC.
  • Missing: 26, 53, 214 – 219.

Author: Gaston County Public Library
Title: Finding Literary Criticism
URL: https://gastonlibrary.libguides.com/literatureguides/literarycriticism
Revised: 13 October 2022