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Literature Resources from Gale (from the Alabama Virtual Library)


Searches several Gale Literature databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, LitFinder, Merriam Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors.
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MLA International Bibliography


Scholarly research in language, literature, folklore, and linguistics; 1926-present.