This page will help direct you to the literature articles and databases that will be most useful to you. If you are accessing these materials from off campus, you will need to login with your MU ID.
If you need help finding or accessing an article or database, contact a librarian.
Select one of the databases below to get started conducting your research!
Use MLA to search by title of the work or by author.
Use Humanities International to search by author. In the top box, type in the author's name and select People from the drop down box. In the second box, type in Criticism and choose Subject terms in the drop down box.
To ensure timely delivery of articles requested from other libraries you will need an active ILL account. Follow the steps below to activate your ILL account, you only have to do this once.
1. Go to
2. Select ‘InterLibrary Loan’ from the top level navigation.
3. You will be prompted to complete any required fields that aren’t pre-populated and set your notification preferences.
4. Click ‘Submit information’ at the bottom of the page.
