Gale Literature
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Contains current literary information from more than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays, and biographies of over 130,000 authors. It also and features more than 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches, and plays. This database includes the content of Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors series.
Key Search Features
- Full Text - finds articles available to you in full text - this is the default
- Peer-reviewed - check this box to limit your search to peer-reviewed articles
- Person Search (found at the top of the page) - Can help you find articles about a specific person
- Works Search (found at the top of the page) - Can help you find articles about a specific work of literature
Limiting Your Results
- Subjects - You can use this to limit your results to only those with a specific subject
- Person - About - search for articles about authors or characters
- Name of Work - search for articles on specific works of literature
- Author - Items By - search for articles written by a specific person
- Document Types - This can help you narrow by article, brief article, review, etc.
- Search Within - Allows you to further search within the set of results you have
