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Literature Resource Center (Gale Cengage)

The Literature Resource Center gives users access to critical essays, book reviews, biographies and author interviews from a range of periods and genres. It also covers notable New Zealand authors.

Subjects: Arts, Biography, Business, Health, History, Law, Literature, Music, Science & technology

Type of content: Homework resources, Newspapers, Magazines, Research articles, Quick facts, Images

Audience: Children, General public, Secondary students

EPIC subscription options including The Literature Resource Center: EPIC Packages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

The Literature Resource Center includes:

Find quick access to:

  • detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
  • full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals and literary magazines
  • overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
  • full-text poems, short stories and plays
  • interviews, web sites and author portraits
  • The ability to identify authors and works that share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender.

More about Literature Resource Center on the Gale Cengage website

URLs for Gale Cengage Databases

Page last updated: 24 February 2010.