Penn State Mont Alto Library   Penn State Mont Alto

Primary texts, secondary sources, and biographical information. Contains literary works, key literary reference works, and several dozen journals.

KnowledgeNotes Student Guides (Literature Online)

Online study guides to 200+ classic and contemporary literary works.
"KnowledgeNotes" are a special feature of the Literature Online database. To view the list of KnowledgeNotes, connect to Literature Online, click on CRITICISM AND REFERENCE (under the "Quick Search" box). In the Reference section, place a check in the "KnowledgeNotes" box in the list of Publications, and click on SEARCH. 

Brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the US and internationally.

Biographical and critical essays on authors and their works including novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, literary theorists, and other writers. Complete full-text content from the following sources: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children Literature Review.

A worldwide index of references to journal articles, dissertations, books, and parts of books pertaining to modern literatures, folklore, film, drama, languages, and linguistics. It excludes book, drama, and film reviews. Includes indexing from 1963 to the present, and incorporates the MLA Directory of Periodicals. 

Electronic full-text, full-image Journals available through the WWW to Penn State scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from 1995 to the present. 

Contains the works of over 200 American poets from 1600 to 1900, with an emphasis on the actual text of the poems and the poet's own notes. 

Contains searchable texts of the works of many prominent writers from the early days of the century through the 1990s.

Includes both images and text of early editions of more than 750 novels and short stories by more than 130 authors.

Works of 30 of the most influential writer of the British Isles in the 18th century.

250 complete works of prose fiction by 102 authors from the period 1782 to 1903. Includes works of well-known authors such as the Brontes, Dickens, Scott, Trollope, Mary Shelley, and George Eliot.

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