Gale Literature

Research Resource

Gale Literature

A wide collection featuring literary biographies, criticism, primary source material, reviews and overviews. This collection also includes some short stories, plays, speeches and poems. Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres from all time periods and from around the world.

Use Gale Literature to search across award-winning series that comprise Literature Criticism Online and cover centuries of critiques on authors and their works that span all time periods, types of literature and regions:

  • Children’s Literature Review
  • Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • Drama Criticism 
  • Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
  • Poetry Criticism 
  • Shakespearean Criticism 
  • Short Story Criticism 
  • Something About the Author
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

These Gale Literature resources can also be searched independently:

Resource Topic:
Books, Reading and Literature
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Resource Audience:
High School
College & Adult
Resource Access:
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Resource Vendor:
Gale
Resource Type:
Database