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Your best bet to find scholarly sources in all aspects of modern languages and literature.
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You are researching authors and specific works of literature and are looking for scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. An excellent companion to the more scholarly MLA International Bibliography with Full Text database.
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The series that comprise Gale Literature Criticism represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
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The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.
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You are looking for critical and biographical analysis of British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th-century to the present. From the Scribner Writer Series.
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An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
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