Francophone Literature

Provides full access to: The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics; The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture; The Cambridge Companions to Music; and Shakespeare Survey. Includes: Cambridge Companion to the African Novel (2009); Cambridge Companion to the French Novel (1997); and Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004).

Provides full-text access to dictionaries, language reference, Islamic studies and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Literature Resource Center offers biographical and other background information for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Literature Resource Center's content comes from the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and more, including full text of selected poems, plays, and short stories.

Literature Criticism Online includes the contents of several multidisciplinary series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. The collection includes biographical essays and selected literary criticism for authors from the classical period to the present day.

Over 250 of these well-known, used and trusted volumes published since the 1960s are available online; covers 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

Current Biography contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present. Dates of coverage: Ancient Times to present.