Information on literature from all time periods and genres.
Gale Literary Sources brings together Gale's literary databases in one interface.
Gale Literary Sources includes the databases
Literature Criticism Online,
LitFinder,
Literature Resource Center,
Something About the Author Online and two additional e-books from the Gale Virtual Reference Collection --
The Encyclopedia of World Biography and the
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
The
Literature Criticism Online database includes the titles
Children's Literature Review,
Contemporary Literary Criticism,
Drama Criticism, and
Short Story Criticism.
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
The
Literature Resource Center database includes
Contemporary Authors Online;
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and
Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's
Literature Criticism and
For Students series. The titles in these series include:
Children's Literature Review,
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism,
Drama Criticism,
Drama for Students,
Literature from 1400 to 1800,
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism,
Literature of Developing Nations for Students,
Literature and Its Times,
Novels for Students,
Poetry Criticism,
Poetry for Students,
Shakespearean Criticism,
Shakespeare for Students,
Short Story Criticism,
Short Stories for Students, and
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Access to current, full-text critical essays on major authors from prominent literary journals.
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