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Literary Reference Center Plus

Literary Reference Center™ Plus is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literary Reference Center Plus contains everything in Literary Reference Center, plus the following:

  • Over 1,200 Additional Full-Text Literary Reference Books/Works, including titles with a focus on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, children's literature, Hispanic literature and other areas
  • Over 200 Additional Full-Text Literary Journals & Magazines, including titles with a focus on multi-cultural studies, folklore, Latin American literature and historical literature
  • 35 Volumes of New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press relating to Fantasy/Science Fiction, Contemporary Literature, World Philosophy, Quotations In Context, Religious Literature and Biographies of Nobel Literature Prize Winners
  • 40 Full-Text Literary Study Guides, covering:
    • American Literature - helping students explore novels and plays by American authors
    • English Literature - helping students with the study of novels, poems, and plays
    • Literary Genres - helping students understand the characteristics of different forms of literature
  • 72 Literary Videos pertaining to classic literary works and authors

In addition, Literary Reference Center Plus includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.

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