Jim Dan Hill Library: American Literature: Articles

Subject Databases

MLA International Bibliography
A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's and containing over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Artemis Literary Sources
An integrated search interface that includes the following databases: Literature Criticism Online and LitFinder.
Humanities International Complete
Includes full text for more than 1,200 journals, indexing for more than 2,300 journals, plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
Literary Reference Center Plus
Comprehensive database that provides users with full text for plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticisms, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, classic texts and much more.

Featured Journals

Amercian Literary History
Through essays, position papers, and commentaries, along with reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished diaries, letters, and stories, American Literary History surveys the contested field of US culture four times a year. No other scholarly publication offers such a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of critical challenges. American Literary History has become the premier forum for a rich and varied criticism shaping the ways we have come to think about America and setting the agenda of American cultural studies.
American Literary Realism
For forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors from this key transition period in American literary history, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and many others, is discussed in articles, book reviews, critical essays, bibliographies, documents, and notes on all related topics. Each issue is also a valuable bibliographic resource.
Early American Literature
The journal of the Modem Language Association's American Literature Division 1, Early American Literature publishes the finest work of scholars examining American literature from its inception through the early national period, about 1830. Founded in 1965, EAL invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.
Studies in American Fiction
Studies in American Fiction publishes reviews and articles on a wide temporal range in American fiction: from neglected and rediscovered early U.S. writers (Susanna Rowson, Leonora Sansay, James Hall) to the emergent authors of the present day (Katherine Dunn, Ana Menéndez, Monique Truong, Toni Morrison). Expect its refereed articles to feature not only major canonical works by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Thomas Pynchon, but scholarly analyses of contemporary Chicano literature and Harlem Renaissance fiction. Engendering conversations about forms of writing that do not succumb to traditional genres, SAF interrogates and redraws both generic and geographic boundaries. SAF is the only journal encompassing American literature from the North American colonial past to the United States' globalized present.

General Databases

JSTOR
Find full text articles from core journals in history, political science, philosophy, mathematics, economics, and other social sciences and humanities. The most recent three years are not included for titles which are still being published.
Project MUSE
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
SAGE Journals
SAGE Journals includes leading international peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of more than 350 scholarly and professional societies. Subject coverage spans business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, medicine and many more.
Web of Science Core Collections
Access the worlds leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
Dates of Coverage: 1987-Present
Access Note: Limited to 1 user at a time.

Included Databases:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1987-present)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1987-present)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1987-present)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (2013-present)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (2013-present)
- Book Citation Index Science (2013-present)
- Book Citation Index Social Sciences & Humanities (2013-present)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015-present)
- Current Chemical Reactions (2013-present)
- Index Chemicus (2013-present)
Google Scholar
A web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.