It's useful when you are first reading a new author to take a look at relevant background information. The online sources listed below will give you reliable and authoritative information on specific authors, genres, or terms and movements in literature.
Provides access to e-books in the Cambridge Companion series for literature and classical authors. The essays are written by scholars in that field and provide background information and an analysis of the topic selected, offering a good starting point for research.
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on British and Irish Literature. Very useful for introductions to the scholarship of a field and key critical works.
Provides a single search site for several different and very useful full-text resources in literature covering biography and criticism of major authors and literary works from classical Greek and Roman literature to contemporary works, all languages and most countries are represented. Among the individual titles included are: Gale Literature Criticism (title list), Gale Literature Resource Center, Dictionary of Literary Biography (title list), and Something about the Author (title list). Gale.
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