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Online Reference Material

The following links will take you to excellent sources of background information on people, places, terms, and trends.

Literature Online (LION)
Contains biographical information on individual writers, as well as links to articles about them.
Literary Resource Center (Gale Literary Databases)
Excellent source of biographical information on individual writers, as well as summaries of the significant trends of what literary critics have written about them.
Scribner Writer Series
Literary criticism and overviews of writers from around the world. Antiquity to the present.
Twayne’s Authors
Literary criticism and in-depth introductions to writers from around the world, from antiquity to the present. Also includes essays on specific works.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online encyclopedias in many different subjects
Britannica Online
Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Covers a wide variety of subjects.
Oxford Reference Online
Online dictionaries and handbooks from many different fields, including literature.

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