below = Lone Star College System college access off campus with valid college ID/library card number Bloom's Literary Reference Online
(Facts on File) Essays and criticism examining the lives of great authors and their works throughout history.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Thomson Gale) Includes full-text, searchable reference sets in literature such as Short Stories for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Drama for Students.
JSTOR
(Mellon Foundation) Includes full-text back issues of selected journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.
Literature Resource Center
(Thomson Gale) Literary criticism from magazines and scholarly journals.
Project MUSE
(Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text articles from "over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals."
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eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)
NOTE: Request items online from library catalog with a Harris County Public Library Card or Lone Star College–CyFair Photo ID/Library Card. See instructions on getting a library card.
Selected Literature Reference Books
REF 803 Cud - A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
REF 803 Har - A Handbook to Literature
REF 803 Qui - A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
REF 808.1 Poe - Poetry for Students
REF 809.04 Twe - Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
REF 809.04 Nin - Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
REF 809.91 Lit - Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements
REF 809.993 Lit - Literature and its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them
REF 811.309 Enc - Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
REF 822.33 Sha - Shakespeare for Students
Citation Help
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Maintained by: S. Green-Reference Librarian
susan.e.green@lonestar.edu