SUNY Adirondack Library: ENG218: Women in Literature: Home

1) Search for Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction

Kate Chopin's Private Papers by Emily Toth (Editor); Per Seyersted (Editor)
Call Number: PS1294.C63 A6 1998
ISBN: 9780253331120
Publication Date: 1998-10-22

To find literary criticism of poetry or fiction, use the "Start Your Research Here" search box above.

It does a broad, shallow search across 100 library databases: 30,000 books, 200,000 ebooks, millions of articles, and thousands of videos.
Use Advanced Search to overlap ideas with AND. See examples below.
Limit results to E-books, Print Books, Articles or Videos as needed.

"Adrienne Rich"
Browse through these results, or do an Advanced Search and add "literary criticism" to narrow your results.
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"literary criticism" AND poetry AND feminis*
This search finds 2,760+ books, ebooks, articles and more. Add a name or title to limit it further.
Christina Rossetti AND feminis* AND critic*
The overlap of these three topics finds about 1,200 results. Limit by peer-review, by ebook/article, add a poem title, etc.
Christina Rossetti AND "feminist criticism"
Finds 170+ articles on this topic. Limiting to Peer-reviewed finds 100+. articles.

For Books:

For non-fiction (Literary criticism, guides and manuals, biographies, histories, case studies, essays, philosophy etc.)
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For fiction (fairy tales, folk tales, novels, stories, etc.)
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Jamaica Kincaid by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: PR9275.A583 K5676 2008
ISBN: 9780786435807
Publication Date: 2008-07-23
Graphic Subjects by Michael A. Chaney
Call Number: PN6710 .G7375 2011
ISBN: 9780299251031
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Includes critical essay on Bechdel.

2) Search for Articles in Specific Databases

Fill in gaps with a subject specific databases.

1) Gale Literature Resource Center and other Ebooks

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Click Peer-Reviewed Journals to limit to scholarly articles.
Click Advanced Search to add a second topic,
- or, type AND (in all capital letters) with a subject. (AND acts as a software command to tell the database to overlap topics.)

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
Also in Gale eBooks; six-volume set on history of women and feminism throughout literature.

Try a Multidisciplinary Database that overs all topics.

2) ProQuest Central Article Database

ProQuest Central offers millions of articles from 2,200 newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals.

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ProQuest Central

ProQuest Central search: "literary criticism" AND poetry AND feminis*
Try adding an author's name to this search, which found almost 29,000 sources.
Proquest Central article: A Formalism Reading of Maugham’s “The Three Fat Women of Antibes” and “Rain”

3) JSTOR

You may want to try this non-profit database also. It covers literature topics well.

JSTOR

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Videos of Feminist Writers

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