PACFTB Literary and Cultural Heritage Maps Research
This guide is for historians, students, community members, and others who are authoring biographies and feature articles for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's Literary and Cultural Maps of Pennsylvania project. It includes recommended databases, fact
Available at Penn State and some Pennsylvania libraries. Combines several Gale databases on literary biography and criticism, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Something About the Author. Provides basic biographical information on thousands of writers.
The Gale Literary Sources interface enables users to cross-search all of PSU's subscribed Gale literary content.
Available at Penn State and some Pennsylvania libraries. Contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present.
Available at Penn State and some Pennsylvania libraries. Scholarly journal articles in literature, folklore, and related topics.
The MLA International Bibliography contains more than 1.7 million records for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Available at Penn State and some Pennsylvania libraries. Provides reviews and award information for children's and young adult literature.
CLCD (Children's Literature Comprehensive Database) is the premier single-source, single-search provider of online information to help educators and librarians find just the right books to meet their educational and collection management requirements. CLCD provides over 2.1 million Children's and Young Adult Literature records containing more than 500,000 professional reviews of children's books, multimedia and audio books (aggregated from 42 sources). The database provides over 1.6 million entries including 650,000 national, state, and international award entries dating back to 1922. Also included are 330,000 and author illustrator links. Subscribers can search by keyword, author, title and subject; and filter by reading level, age, grade and interest level; and then view, sort and distribute the resulting information. In addition, CLCD includes Teaching Tools which shows links to hundreds of web sites with lesson plans and teaching guides.
Available at Penn State and some Pennsylvania libraries. Provides lists of recommended writings and scholarly studies for both American authors and themes in American literary history.
Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature is designed to provide authoritative guidance. From postmodern theory to debates about the canon, from slave narratives to comic books, American literature is one of the most active fields in academia today. The field is characterized by the many cultures, religions, and ethnicities that have contributed to the larger American literary tradition over the past 500 years. The study of literature invites trans-disciplinary collaboration with fields as varied as history, cultural studies, politics, and women’s studies making it challenging for students and scholars to stay informed about related areas of study. Researchers and practitioners at all levels need tools that help them filter through the proliferation of information sources to material that is reliable and directly relevant to their inquiries. Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature will offer a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload.