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Database of the Week: Literature Online - LION

ProQuest is pleased to announce the latest release of Literature Online.

228 Full-Text Journals:

This latest release of Literature Online sees the addition of eight new titles:
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Margaret Atwood Studies, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, Studies in the Fantastic, Old English Newsletter, CR: The New Centennial ReviewFourth Genre and Red Cedar Review.

The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 259. This is in addition to the regular update to our Criticism resources: this release contains both new full-text journal articles and new bibliographic records from ABELL, plus the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB).

New Biographies:

The latest release of Literature Online also sees the addition of 70 new and revised biographies, including biographies for Julie Agoos, Edmund Blunden, Marina Carr, Aldous Huxley, Neil LaBute, Sharman Macdonald, Howard Sackler and Irwin Shaw. Literature Online now contains more than 4,300 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author’s life, work and critical reception. These biographies can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search: Criticism & Reference, or simply by entering an author’s name in Quick Search.

Plus, Literature Online features more than 17,500 author records. Each of our author records contains at least one of the following: an authoritative and accessible biography, full-text of the author’s works, a comprehensive bibliography of primary works or a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author. Author records can be accessed by searching in the Search: Authors or Search: Texts pages or from the Quick Search feature from any page.

228 Full-Text Journals
This latest release sees the addition of three new titles to Literature Online’s library of full-text journals; Carlyle Studies Annual, Commonwealth: Essays and Studies and Tolstoy Studies Journal. This release also sees the withdrawal of one full-text journal; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, at the request of the publishers. The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 243. Further titles will be added in forthcoming releases, increasing still further Literature Online’s coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies.
See Information Centre: What’s New? for complete update information.

The latest release of Literature Online sees the addition of 43 new or revised biographies, including biographies for Dannie Abse, Alan Bennett, Ted Berrigan, Paul Durcan, Thomas Keneally, Daljit Nagra, Stephen Spender and Horace Walpole. Literature Online now contains over 4,100 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author’s life, work and critical reception. These biographies can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search: Criticism & Reference, or simply by entering an author’s name in Quick Search.

Literature Online now contains over 17,500 author records. Each of our author records contains at least one of the following: an authoritative and accessible biography, full-text of the author’s works, a comprehensive bibliography of primary works or a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author. Author records can be accessed by searching in the Search: Authors or Search: Texts pages or from the Quick Search feature from any page.

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This latest release sees the addition of five new titles to Literature Online’s library of full-text journals, including; The Comparatist, New Coin, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Theory & Event and William Carlos Williams Review.
The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 236.
This release also contains new full-text journal articles and new bibliographic records from ABELL, plus, if subscribed, the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB).

New Biographies
The latest release of Literature Online sees the addition of 15 new or revised biographies, including biographies for Kingsley Amis, Ted Kooser, Louis MacNeice, Alberto Rios, Theodore Roethke, Anne Stevenson, James Tate and Dean Young.
Literature Online now contains over 4,100 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author’s life, work and critical reception.

These biographies can be found by

• following links from Author Pages,
• using Search: Criticism & Reference
• entering an author’s name in Quick Search.

Literature Online now contains over 17,500 author records. Each of the author records contains at least one of the following:

• an authoritative and accessible biography,
• full-text of the author’s works,
• a comprehensive bibliography of primary works
• a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author.

Author records can be accessed by searching in the:

• Search: Authors
• Search: Texts pages
• Quick Search feature from any page.

Lion now offers more than 65 volumes of poetry from Faber and Faber Ltd.

In addition to the Faber titles already covered in Literature Online
(including notable works by T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia
Plath, Ted Hughes, and Paul Muldoon), this extended agreement
includes the poetry of W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, previously
unavailable in electronic form. Also added are Nobel prize-winner
Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, T. S. Eliot’s early poetry,
and more recently published material.

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