Literature Criticism Online Archive

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This database offers critical essays on a wide variety of works and should be used in conjunction with Gale/Cengage’s Literature Resource Center database. Per Gale/Cengage, “Literature Criticism Online contains 100% of the introductory, contextual and principal works/further reading content and, on average, almost 95% of the reprinted criticism over the life of the series.“ LSU coverage for each series begins with volume one and ends as of June 30, 2011.

Children’s Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Drama Criticism
Literature Criticism from 1400-1800
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
Poetry Criticism
Shakespearean Literature Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

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