LibGuides: American Literature Subject Guide: Web Resources

Electronic Resources

Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Literary Reference Online examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. This database contains information on thousands of authors and their major and minor works, an archive of 35,000 characters, an extensive glossary and subject entries featuring historical events and their impact on literature.

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. (Provided by the New Jersey State Library).

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. (Provided by the New Jersey State Library).
Literature Resource Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. (This service was partially funded by the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative.)

Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. (This service was partially funded by the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative.) Including Scriber, Twayne's U.S. and World Authors.

Literary Reference Center
Available through EbscoHost, Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database with completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.