About this database

Gale Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines,

Includes more than 160,000 selected complete entries from two series — Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography, over 80,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews* from proprietary Gale titles including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review, and more than 1 million full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from more than 475 scholarly journals and literary magazines.

Coverage
Summary: 
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines.
Content Types: 
  • Biographies
  • Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Dates: 
1200-present