Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center’s coverage is:
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Comprehensive
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Global
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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
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Over 17,000 international authors
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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
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
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Materials are editorially selected to ensure broad, representative coverage
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. . . and the Community College
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Get a broad understanding of an author’s 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
author’s lives and of individual works
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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 author’s work across time
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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
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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.
Here’s 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.xls. 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.
A list of full-text periodicals included in LRC is available at the same site. The direct link is
http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5102.xls.
As always, let me know if you need additional information or clarification!
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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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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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