Literature Resource Center

The Literature Resource Center is a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

Key content elements of LRC:

• Contemporary Authors through the current volume, featuring biographies on more than 120,000 authors
• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series through the current volume, featuring updated biographies on prominent contemporary authors
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, offering selected criticism through volume 198 of the print series
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, all biographies through volume 308 of the print series
• More than 59,000 full-text articles and excerpts from critical essays originally appearing in:
  • Children's Literature Review
  • Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
  • Drama Criticism
  • Drama for Students
  • Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
  • Literature of Developing Nations for Students
  • Literature and Its Times
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
  • Novels for Students
  • Poetry Criticism
  • Poetry for Students
  • Shakespearean Criticism
  • Short Stories for Students
  • Short Story Criticism
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• More than 1.7 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present from the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography and over 5,800 records from the Directory of Periodicals (for subscribers to the MLA module).
• Integrated content from Macmillan Library Reference (for subscribers to the Macmillan modules), including: The Scribner Writer Series (African American Writers, African Writers, American Nature Writers, American Writers, Ancient Writers, The Books of the Bible, British Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, Modern American Women Writers, Science Fiction Writers, Supernatural Writers, Writers for Children and Writers for Young Adults) and The Twayne Authors Series (600 monographs from the Twayne's US Authors, Twayne's English Authors, Twayne's World Authors series)
• Access to full text articles and abstracts published in more than 260 academic literary journals
• 5000+ Work Overviews, consisting of plot summaries and explications of prominent works
• 5400 Websites, guiding the user to useful Internet resources on authors and their works
• 2300 Author Portraits
• Access to more than 6000 timeline events designed as an interdisciplinary tool to provide social and historical context for the study of literature.
• Guide to Conducting Literary Research, instructing the user how to create an MLA-style literary research paper

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• Author Search. Enables the user to find biographies, bibliographies, and full-text criticism of an author's works and literary career.
• Title Search. Enables the user to locate a reference to a work of literature within author biographies, bibliographies, critical essays, and work overviews.
• Keyword Search. Enables the user to conduct a broad search against targeted fields in each document.
• Advanced Search. Enables the user to design a more powerful search using such criteria as Author Name, Title, Critic name, Keyword, and Full Text.
• Authors by Type Search. Enables the user to identify an author or list of authors using a variety of classifications, including genre, literary movement/time period, nationality, ethnicity, gender, date of birth and/or death.
• Literary-Historical Timeline Search. Enables the user to target a specific date range for literary figures, movements, and historical events.
• Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Search. Enables the user to find entries for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms, mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements and prizes from the entire 10,000-plus-term resource.

You may access Literature Resource Center from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.