Guide to Using the Gale Literary Criticism Series

The various Gale Literary Criticism series are an invaluable resource for literary research. Each volume focuses on particular authors, works, or themes, and provides annotated excerpts of selected critical appraisals and interpretations dating from the time the work first appeared up to the contemporary era. Volumes are being published continually, and each volume contains cumulative indexes (author, topic, nationality, title) for all Gale series.

To locate the volume(s) with literary criticism on the author or work you are researching, select one of the most recent volumes from a set (one with the highest volume number), and look in one of the cumulative indexes. The entry in the author index for Flaubert looks like this:

Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880....NCLC 2,

10, 19, 62, 66; DA; DAB; DAC; DAM MST, NOV;

SSC 11; WLC

See also DA3; DLB 119

Use the following chart to interpret the codes. If you do not see your code in the table below, it means that Collins Library does not subscribe to that series.

CODE	FULL TITLE	AUTHORS	LIBRARY CALL #
CLC	Contemporary Literary Criticism	Authors now living or who died after 1999	PN 771 C59 Ref
TCLC	20^th-century Literary Criticism	Authors who died between 1900 and 1999	PN 771 C5 Ref
NCLC	19^th-century Literary Criticism	Authors who died between 1800 and 1899	PN 761 N5 Ref
LC	Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800	Authors who died between 1400 and 1799	PN 86 L56 Ref
SC	Shakespearean Criticism	Authors who died between 1400 and 1799	PR 2965 S43 Ref
CMLC	Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism	Authors who died before 1400	PN 610 C53 Ref
SSC	Short Story Criticism	Short story writers	PN 3373 S386 Ref

For example, if you are doing research on Flaubert, then you would know that here in Collins Library you will be able to look in volumes 2, 10, 19, 62, and 66 in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism and in volume 11 of Short Story Criticism for examples of literary criticism on Flaubert from the time he first published up to the contemporary age. Collins Library does not subscribe to the other series listed, so you won’t be able to access them.

All volumes listed under “See also” are biographical resources and can be accessed full text online through the Literature Resource Center. Go to the library home page http://library.ups.edu , select “Research Gateway,” then click on “Databases A-Z,” then scroll to the Literature Resource Center.

Content contact: Peggy Burge, Humanities Liaison Librarian, pburge@ups.edu