Literary Analysis - ENG 1020 - Barfoot (Modest Proposal) - Research Guides at Cuyahoga Community College

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Writing a Literary Analysis

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Cleveland Public Library

Looking for more articles? Try Literary Criticism Online from Cleveland Public Library. You need a CPL library card to access the database from off-site. Metro Library can issue CPL library cards.

Literary Criticism Online
The most extensive compilation of literary criticism available. It is comprised of the complete contents of 10 individual, award-winning Gale series that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. The following series are included in this database: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children’s Literature Review, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Something About the Author.

Possible Search Terms

"A Modest Proposal" - title of the essay (use quotation marks to force exact phrase)

Jonathan Swift - author of A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift and "A Modest Proposal" - author and title

Literature Databases

Use these sources to research literary criticism, author biographies, or to study the themes of particular works.

Literary Reference Center Plus
A comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
Literature Resource Center
Explore biographical and critical information, historical context, and social implications. The Literature Resource Center includes full-text journal articles, and literary terms and plot summaries.
MLA International Bibliography
An index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics, includes literature from all over the world.
Humanities International Complete
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications in the humanities.

History & Religion databases

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Humanities International Complete
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications in the humanities.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

ENG 1020 - Barfoot (Modest Proposal): Literary Analysis