Literature Resource Center: In addition to biographical, bibliographic and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, students and researchers can access full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism database. The value of

Literature Resource Center is further enhanced by features not available from any print source, including:

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