Gale Literature is an integrated (cross-search)research experience that brings together Gale's premier literary databases. The cross-search allows researchers of all levels to find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information. Currently, users can cross-search these collections with Gale Literature:
Gale Literature Criticism - one of the largest, most extensive compilations of literary commentary available
Gale Literature Resource Center - up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world
LitFinder - a wealth of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays
Subcollections of eBook titles - including Scribner Writers and Twayne's Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography - signed scholarly essays that provide essential context to understand the careers and writings of more than 12,000 authors from all time periods and all parts of the world
Something About the Author - engaging biographies of classic, contemporary, and emerging authors and illustrators of children's and young adult literature
Contemporary Authors - current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors