For Literary Criticisms on a specific work, the AUS Library provides print access to numerous volumes of Gale Research Group’s literary criticism volumes including:
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC)
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC)
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (NCLC)
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Drama for Students
Short Stories for Students
These are large reference collections which require the help of indexing tools when searching for literary criticism on specific works of literature. Gale’s online Literary Index makes the task easy. Find which Gale literature series include entries on an author, or find where a title is discussed in Gale’s literature criticism series. The following guide, in the PDF below, provides step by step instructions on how to use the volumes.