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Gale
Literature Resource Center 
The Gale Literature Resource Center contains information
on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. This massive collection
includes biographies, bibliographies, critical essays, work overviews,
author-related websites, and timeline events.
The Gale Literature Resource
Center includes the following core resources:
- Contemporary Authors
- through the current
volume, featuring biographies on more than 120,000 authors
- Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
- through the current volume, featuring updated biographies on
prominent contemporary authors
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- offering
selected criticism through volume 198 of the print series
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- all biographies through volume 308 of the print series
In addition to the resources listed above, the Literature Resource Center
includes than
59,000 full-text articles and excerpts from critical essays originally appearing
in:
- Children's Literature Review
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
- Drama Criticism Drama for Students
- Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
- Literature of Developing Nations for Students
- Literature and Its Times
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
- Novels for Students
- Poetry Criticism
- Poetry for Students
- Shakespearean Criticism
- Short Stories for Students
- Short Story Criticism
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
The following resources are also included:
- Access to full text articles and abstracts published in
more than 260 academic literary journals
- 5000+ Work Overviews
, consisting of
plot summaries and explications of prominent works
- 5400 Websites, guiding the
user to useful Internet resources on authors and their works
- 2300 Author Portraits
- Access to more than 6000 timeline events designed as an
interdisciplinary tool to provide social and historical context for the study of
literature.
- Guide to Conducting Literary Research
instructing the user how to
create an MLA-style literary research paper
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (EOL)
- Comprises over 10,000 descriptive entries
for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms,
mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements,
and prizes.
Content: biographies, bibliographies, critical essays, work overviews,
author-related websites, and timeline events.
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