ENGL 1102 Online: Literature
databases

Not every literary work has a "For Students" article, but if yours is, this is a great place to start. Each work will have an author biography, an overview, characters, themes, historical context, and some critical analysis articles. You can also access For Students through Gale Literary Sources.
Tutorial

Gale Literary Sources brings together collections of essays, commentary, criticism, primary sources and biographical information related to literature, history and culture from a variety of sources including content from Literature Criticism Online and selected authoritative reference works from Gale Virtual Reference Library. To access articles from the For Students series, search for the name of your work, then scroll down to see the search limiters for "Publication Title." Choose the appropriate "For Students" work from that list.

All scholarly articles. Examine the lives and works of great writers, an archive of more than 46,000 characters, literary topics, themes, movements, and genres.