Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a great place to start researching authors, their works, and literary movements. It includes full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, critical essays, work and topic overviews, biographies, and more.

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You can search LRC by Person, for all available documents about a particular author; by Name of Work, for articles and essays about specific literary works, such as novels, short stories, and poems; or, by Keyword, for themes or literary movements. You can also limit to peer-reviewed publications, by time period, and by content type (biographies, reviews, criticism).

Access LRC here, from the Databases A-Z page, or from the Literature Subject Guide.