Literature Resource Center

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Literature Resource Center
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• The Literature Resource Centers coverage is
• Comprehensive
• Biographical bibliographic coverage of over
  130,000 authors
• Includes all genres, disciplines, and time
  periods, from Antiquity to today
• Provides essential social, historical, and
  political context for deeper understanding
• Global
• Over 17,000 international authors
• Current
• Daily loads from full-text scholarly journals,
  literary magazines and trade publications
• Biographical bibliographic information updated
  weekly
• Reference and reprinted criticism from current
  Gale print titles added as volumes are published
• Authoritative
• Reference materials literature criticism from
  more than 18 Gale series, including award-winners
  Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary
  Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary
  Criticism, and Contemporary Authors
• Literary criticism by noted scholars, critics,
  and other subject experts, from noted scholarly
  journals and monographs
• Balanced
• Materials are editorially selected to ensure
  broad, representative coverage

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. . . and the Community College

• Get a broad understanding of an authors life and
  works
• Up-to-date overviews of authors lives and works
  and responses to their writings
• Essays by subject experts exploring the
  historical and social context of authors lives
  and of individual works
• Research the meaning and interpretation of
  literary works
• Find a broad range of current critical responses
  from a rich selection of scholarly periodicals
  and monographs
• Trace the critical reception of an authors work
  across time
• Develop a reading list, course syllabus or
  coursepack
• Identify authors who share characteristics such
  as gender, ethnicity, nationality, time period,
  literary movement, or genre
• Create links to assigned readings in course
  management systems like Blackboard and WebCT
• The Modern Language Association (MLA)
  International Bibliography is available as an
  integrated module

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• What do customers get for their money with LRC?
  In addition to the best of full-text literary
  criticism
• and reference, part of the great value of LRC is
  the phenomenal amount of new content that flows
  into the
• database throughout the year.
• Heres what we added to the Literature Resource
  Center from August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006
• Coverage of over 4,000 additional authors
• Bringing the total number of authors with
  biographical and bibliographic coverage to over
  130,000
• Over 6,000 additional biographies
• 9 volumes of Contemporary Authors
• 12 volumes of Contemporary Authors New Revisions
• 9 volumes of Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Over 10,000 additional pieces of editorially
  selected full-text criticism
• Representing about 75 of the content (based on
  availability of online rights) of 110 volumes of
  the Literature
• Criticism series, and about 60 of content (based
  on availability of online rights) of 8 volumes
  from the For
• Students series.
• Over 80,000 additional full-text articles from
  current scholarly publications, literary
  magazines and trade journals
• Including the addition of 20 new journals, of
  which 18 are peer reviewed.
• You can find a detailed list of Gale print
  reference content in LRC on gale.com under
  Database Title Lists. The
• direct link is http//www.gale.com/tlist/lrc_rt.xl
  s. This list is updated monthly as new content is
  loaded to the
• database. Content in the Scribner and Twayne's
  modules is also detailed here.

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Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum
American Literature, 1450-1865 Provides a
perspective on the evolution of traditional
American literature beginning with the writings
of the first European explorers and Native
American oral tradition. Features selected
essays, autobiographical writings, poems,
fiction, and drama from the mid-15th century to
1865, including the work of women and ethnic
minorities, which have contributed to American
thought. Authors include Washington Irving,
Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
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Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum

• American Literature, 1865-Present
• Provides a perspective on the further
  development of traditional American literature
  from 1865 (the Realism period) to contemporary
  literature. Features selected essays,
  autobiographical writings, poems, fiction, and
  drama from the end of the Civil War to the
  literature of the late 20th century, including
  the work of women and ethnic minorities, which
  have profoundly shaped American literature.
  Authors include Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, T.S.
  Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway.

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Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum

• British Literature, 1800-1950
• This course surveys the poetry, prose, and drama
  of the major British writers from the Romantics
  (19th Century) to late 20th Century. The works
  are selected to reflect the attitudes and values
  of British culture and the perception of the
  world from a British point of view. Authors
  include Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Brontë, Oscar
  Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.

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Mapping Literature RC to ENGLISH Curriculum

• African-American Literature
• This course introduces the African-American
  literary tradition as seen in the literature of
  the Americas, including the Caribbean. Selections
  explore the black experience in autobiography,
  essay, fiction, poetry, and drama. Themes of
  slavery, colonialism, and the Black Diaspora are
  discussed. Reading selections include the Harlem
  Renaissance and contemporary texts. Authors
  include Olaudah Equiana, Frederick Douglass,
  Phillis Wheatley, W.E.B. DuBois, and Charles W.
  Chesnutt.

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