A comprehensive full-text database that provides users with information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes...

"Provides coverage on the best-known American women writers spanning from colonial days to the present, including biography, criticism, and bibliography for each; also includes lesser-known writers whose work is found in journals, letters, stories, and even hymns...

Contains 2000 entries, including "brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era...

Full text access to some of the essential reference works in Literature, published by the Oxford University Press...

"Provides insight into the careers of nearly 500 20th-century American writers, including black and women writers...

Contains more than 5000 entries, including "over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their style, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history...

Includes "350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day...

Contains "350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day...