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Literary Criticism Online

Bookreporter.com (Best for recently published books.)
http://www.bookreporter.com/
Browse by category or search for recent book reviews, excerpts, and author interviews, done just for the Bookreporter. Reviews range from a paragraph to a page with the longer reviews being signed.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language. Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.

Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism at Daniel Boone Regional Library
http://dbrl.org
You will be prompted to enter your library card number for full access. A Gale
product like DISCovering Authors. Primarily for twentieth century authors.

Gale DISCovering Authors from the RBHS Databases site
http://www.columbia.k12.mo.us/rbhs/mc/databases.htm
An outstanding site supported by MORENet
that contains both author biographies and extensive literary criticism.

Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

The Literary Gothic
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html
A must site for Shelly’s Frankenstein and other Gothic/ Romantic novels.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
A site maintained at Rutgers University. This is a comprehensive and searchable guide to American and English literature and literary criticism resources on the Web.

The New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/books/
Over 50,000 book reviews back to 1980 from the famed New York Times Book Review are archived and searchable, plus special Web-only features. Registration required.

Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Searchable for book reviews and author interviews.

The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/
Searchable for book reviews and author interviews.

Salon
http://salon.com
Online magazine with interviews, book reviews, and articles.

Book Resources are good as well! The Dewey number for literary criticism is 809-810. Remember to check both the reference as well as the regular nonfiction collections.