Literature Criticism Online Archive, with Something About the Author and Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete

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These databases offer biographical and critical essays on authors and their 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.“ Coverage for each series begins with volume one and ends as of June 30, 2011:

Children’s Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Dictionary of Literary Biography*
Drama Criticism
Literature Criticism from 1400-1800
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
Poetry Criticism
Shakespearean Literature Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Something About the Author**
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

*Includes the complete Yearbook series (23 volumes) and Documentary Series (19 volumes).
**Includes the Autobiography series.

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