Fairy Tales: A Research Guide: Home

Little Red Riding Hood, by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1911. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons

The two literary databases below are excellent resources for finding background materials on fairy tales, the writers of fairy tales, and on how authors down through the centuries have made use of fairy tales in their own work.

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Gale Literature Resource Center

This database provides information on thousands of authors and literary works. It includes biographies, reviews and news, literary criticism, and topic and work overviews.

Literature Online (LION)

Along with the full text of of 350,000 English and American works of literature, this database provides articles from 200 full-text literary journals and other key critical and reference resources.

ProQuest One Literature

For literature scholars who need an exhaustive set of scholarly resources around a literary topic for research and course planning. 500,000 primary works and millions of records from journals, monographs, and dissertations.

This Gumberg Library research guide is designed to quickly connect students researching fairy tales and their creators to the materials they need. It links users to: Reference works, both print and electronic; books, again both print and electronic; databases for journal articles; quality websites; as well as videos and other media. Information on citation in multiple formats and how to get materials not available at the Gumberg Library rounds out the guide.

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