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definitions and historical usage of over 600,000 words

Cross between an annotated bibliography and high-level subject encyclopedia. Subject sets currently include African American Studies, Biblical Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, and Philosophy

continuously-updated scholarly resource for literary studies

collection of resource tools, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, & more

essays on well-known writers, works, & influential movements and events in world literature plus bios, character entries, and videos

biographies, topical entries, primary source documents with commentary, images, maps, charts, tables, and more