Literature (Gale)
Access Literature (Gale)
About
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, Literature Criticism Online, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 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
