The Literatures and Languages Library houses a vast array of materials for the study of comparative literature and offers a number of subject-based online guides.
9/8/23: If asked to sign in, choose "Sign in through your institution" and look for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the list. The complete text of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English dictionary with quarterly updates, including revisions not available in any other form.
Searchable database of full-text articles, essays, book reviews, plot summaries, poems, short stories, plays, and interviews with contemporary writers.
A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a My OBO function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.