Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive literature database of biographical and critical information.Image may be NSFW.
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This database includes:
- 145,000+ complete entries from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography
- 70,000+ full-text critical essays and reviews
- 850,000+ full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals and literary magazines
- 7,000+ overviews of works from Gale’s For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
- approximately 30,000 full-text contemporary poems, short stories and plays
- 8,000+ interviews
- app.5,000 links to websites and over 2,800 author portraits
Literature Resource Center includes select critical content from the following Gale titles:
- 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
- Children’s Literature Review
To find biographical and critical information, search using basic search, advanced search, person search or works search. For a user-friendly interface with additional search options, try Artemis Literary Sources, an online platform which cross-searches Literature Resource Center & Literature Criticism Online.
A complete list of all the library’s databases can be found on the library’s website located at www.lvc.edu/library.
