Well, you have been given a task to prepare a literary research paper. What to write about? Waiting for some inspiration may last for ever. Besides, it will never come without an idea. Therefore, you need to get any literary research papers idea. In this case, you have 3 ways of getting it:

1. Select one of the topics offered. Your instructor has certainly provided a list of possible ideas for a literary research paper that can be found in your university/college library. So, even having no personal preferences and interests, you may come to the library and look through the topics offered. It will be rather natural for you not to know where to look first. However, even some basic knowledge of a certain area may serve you as a foundation for your literary research paper;
2. Bore your instructor to advise you the best topic for a literary research paper. Very often tutors have no time for students. However, more insistence can help your realize your ambitions. As a result, you will get a good literary research paper topic idea selected in accordance with personal abilities and knowledge;
3. Choose one of the literary research paper ideas presented below:
• Speak on a misbalance between the inner and external beauty in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”;
• Discuss love that will last forever (Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”);
• Highlight the perpetual searches of the essence of life (Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”);
• Analyze the means of scaring a reader in Edgar Poe’s novels.

Mind that to make a thorough analysis of any book does not mean to make a good literary research paper yet. Your analysis should be presented in your literary research paper in correspondence with your tutor’s requirements.
 
The information given in a Literature research paper and Literature review paper can also help you produce good literary research papers.