About This Database

The Definitive Source for Literary Criticism from Harold Bloom

Bloom's Literary Reference Online features Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, as well as thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also contains an archive of more than 44,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, and genres; almost 170 video segments; and more. Handy browse and search features include in-text links, record links, and numerous options for further research. Entries can be browsed by time period within American, British, and world literature; by author type; by literary genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for images and videos. Author biographies link to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.

Highlights:

• Compete Coverage: essays and criticism examining the lives of great authors and their works throughout history
• Bloom's How to Write about: essays on how to write about good essays on popularly assigned authors
• Works: overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism of thousands of works
• Authors: biographies of thousands of authors from around the world
• Topics and Themes: in-depth, full-text entries on literary movements, literary groups, magazines and newspapers, and historical events that help place literature in context
• Characters: information on more than 44,000 major and minor literary characters
• Comprehensive Source List: full and partial text from hundreds of print titles.

Features:

• Images and videos
• Timeline
• Harold Bloom's Canon of Literature: Professor Bloom's selections of the major works of Western literature.
• Dictionary
• "Did You Mean...?" search feature
• Persistent record links
• Examples of full citations in MLA, Chicago, and APA styles.