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Literature Resource Center
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- Description
- The Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a full-text electronic database that provides
on-
line access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works
from
every age and literary discipline. Literature Resource Center covers more than 124,000
novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the
most-studied
authors. Searchable fields include: Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement, and
Literary
Themes.
- Help
- Comprehensive help is available through the
Help Button on the left navigation bar from most screens of the Literature Resource
Center.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- Date of coverage vary with the source of the material.
- Updating frequency
- Varies according to source.
- Sources
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- Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000
writers
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries
on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and
complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to
vol. 95; and
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 bio-critical
essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
LRC also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from
other Gale series, which
include:
- Children's Literature Review
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
- Drama Criticism
- Drama for Students
- Literature 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
- Shakespeare for Students
- Short Story Criticism
- Short Stories for Students
- Twayne's Author Series
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on
major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than
260 prominent literary journals. Also includes links to nearly 5000 web
sites focusing on major authors and their works.
- Type of coverage
- Full text articles, essays, and encyclopedia entries.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- See the resources listed under "Sources."
- Funder
- VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey
- Producer/content provider
- GALE
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