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. Contents include:
- More than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
- 75,000 articles of literary criticism
- 130,000 author biographies
- Full text of over 300 literary journals
- 500,000 book reviews
- 25,000 classic and contemporary poems
- Over 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories
- 3,000 author interviews
- Over 1,000 images of key literary figures
In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus, the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom, complete content of hundred of literary journals, and hundreds of literary books from Taylor & Francis, ME Sharpe, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press and many other publishers.
