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Help guides on Pierce's research databases.

Gale Literature Overview

Gale Literature brings together all of Gale’s literary databases and literature-related (electronic) books on Gale eBooks into one cross-searchable research site. By including most of Gale's databases into this search engine, one can find up-to-date biographies, scholarly overviews, full-text criticisms, and reviews on writers from all eras.

"Gale Literature" contains other Gale databases, such as:

  •  Literature Resource Center
  • Twaynes Author Series
  • Scribner Writers Series, and
  • Gale's Literature Criticism
     

Getting Started with Gale Literature

Learn more about Gale Literature

The Library also owns physical copies of many of the literary criticism sets included in Gale Literature. The 5 minute video below walks you through how to use the print editions.

The Literary Criticism subject guide includes more information about finding, and using, these reference sets.