eReference Shelf

Literature

Guides to Literary Criticism

Gale Net – The GaleNet is an index to the full-text and abstracts included in their series of literary criticism.
Click here to locate the Gale titles on the Queens Campus, St. John's University NY.
The Internet Public Library – the Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection.
Guide to finding critical sources for DRAMA.
Guide to finding critical sources for POETRY.
Guide to finding critical sources for NOVELS.
Guide to finding critical sources for SHORT-STORIES.

Literary Dictionaries and Outlines

Literary Dictionary – A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices.
Outline of American Literature – Developed by the United States Information Agency as "an overview of the entire span of American literature.

Full-text

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet – Links to both the complete works of Shakespeare as well as other related pages.
eBooks/eTexts: Literature – Full-text of literary works online and in the public domain.