About Literature Criticism Online
Literature Criticism Online includes the complete full-image text of 10 of Gale publishing's most popular literary criticism series. These series represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. They include centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Literary Criticism Online includes hundreds of digitized volumes and more than 200,000 essays extending back 20-30 years. This database compliments Gale's
Literature Resource Center which contains Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as criticism. Ten individual Gale series comprise Literature Criticism Online, representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works, across all regions, eras and genres:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism — covers authors currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism — covers major authors of 1900-1999
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism — covers major authors of 1800-1899
- Shakespearean Criticism — comprehensive coverage of Shakespeare
- Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 — covers authors of the late-middle ages, the renaissance and the restoration eras
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism — covers major classical and medieval authors
- Poetry Criticism — covers poets of all eras
- Short Story Criticism — covers major authors of short fiction
- Drama Criticism — covers major dramatists of all eras
- Children’s Literature Review — covers the most influentialauthors of children’s literature