ProQuest is pleased to announce the latest release of Literature Online:
Penguin Classics Volumes Added Nearly 400 volumes (over a thousand individual works) from the Penguin Classics series have been added to Literature Online. Texts by key English and American writers such as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain and the Bronte sisters are included as well as a large number of works in translation. Authoritative, modern translations of works by Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Giovanni Boccaccio, Farid Attar, Cao Xueqin and many others have been added. Also featured are examples of non-fiction prose, biographies, travel writing, essays and prayers as well as scholarly modern editions of classics myths and sagas from Italy, Greece, Scandinavia and elsewhere.
Full introduction and textual notes are also available. A full list of all the Penguin Classics Introductions is available on LION and they are searchable from the Reference search page.
New Reference Resources The number of essential encyclopaedias and companions covering a range of important and often-studied genres and national literatures has been doubled. Included are: Oxford University Press’s Companion to Irish Literature and Concise Companion to English Literature, University of Florida Press’s Handbook of African American Literature, Routledge’s Encyclopedia of African Literature and Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003. Coverage of literary theory and linguistics is significantly enhanced with the inclusion of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
Full-Text Journals Four new titles have been added: Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, Chinese Literature Today, Thomas Hardy Yearbook and New Zealand Journal of French Studies. The addition of these new journals brings the total number of titles up to 337. Further titles will continue to be added. This is in addition to the regular update to our Criticism resources: this release contains both new full-text journal articles, plus new bibliographic records from the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB).
New Biographies 76 new or revised biographies have been added, including biographies for James Aldridge, John Brownjohn, J.P. Donleavy, Charles Gordon, Iris Murdoch, John Henry Newman, Edna O’Brien and Jean Toomer. LION now contains over 4,500 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. LION now contains over 19,000 author records.
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