British Literature of the Twentieth Century

An integrated research experience, Artemis Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows users to search across these resources through one interface: Literary Resource Center (LRC), Scribner Writers, and Twayne's Authors. LRC provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines. Entries in Scribners includes original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Twayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived.

Contemporary Authors contains biographical details on current writers, along with the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, as well as authors from around the world. In many cases, information provided by the authors themselves is used to create sketches. In instances where an author is deceased or direct responses to questionnaires and query letters are unavailable, details are drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors’ publishers.

The Twayne Authors Series is a literary reference resource that combines Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors publications. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. All titles feature comment elements, such as a chronology, a biography, a comprehensive critical analysis, and an annotated bibliography. The discussions of each author in the series are between 175-200 printed pages.