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Background/Overviews on Particular Authors or Works

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale)  
    Around 13,000 biographical and critical essays, mainly of American and British authors. Essays range from 10-20 pages long and include lengthy suggested readings.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (Gale)  
    Full-text, critical essays, or excerpts of essays, on widely studied contemporary authors (now living or who died after 2000).
  • Contemporary Authors (Gale) -- 1967-present  
    Provides biographical information and suggested readings on more than 130,000 U.S. and international authors.
  • Gale Literary Databases  
    This interface searches Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography simultaneously.
  • Something About the Author Online (Gale)  
    Full-text biographical or autobiographical information for around 12,000 authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books.
  • Gale's Literary Index  
    Index to over 130 multivolume literature reference works from Gale, St. James, Scribner's, and Twayne. Use this to determine which sets or series (such as American Writers or Something About the Author) have entries on a particular author or work.

Dictionaries

  • Oxford English Dictionary  
    Online version of the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Offers definitions over time and contextual examples of usage, including the first written usage.

Conference Papers & Proceedings

 

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