Publication Dates: 1400-Present Contains reprints of scholarly criticism and popular commentary on literary works. Includes contemporary reviews as well as recent scholarship.
Publication Dates: 1926-Present
Covers language, literature, linguistics, and related areas such as film and television. Includes references to journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations.
Library Catalog Search Strategies
Library catalogs, such as the Williams Library Catalog and Worldcat will help you identify and locate literary scholarship published in book format.
When searching for literary scholarship, the best search strategy is to use the subject heading History and Criticism and combine it with your topic For example:
Covering aspects of literature of the 20th century, this reference title includes more than 2000 entries on authors, 50 national surveys that review the literature of countries around the world and 50 additional entries that discuss topics, such as genres, movements and trends.
Encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Entries are written by experts in the field of Latin American studies.
Includes: critical opinion on the author and their work; bibliographies, chronology of principal works, biographical and career details; and further reading.
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century by 
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by 
Latin American Literature and Its Times by 
Hispanic Literature Criticism by