ENGL 162 LGBTQ Literature

Reference Databases for Foundational Info

Gale Literature:

Get Started with Topic Overviews, Biographies, & Interviews
  • Learn about your authors through critical Biographies.
  • Get an overview of key topics, themes, and critical perspectives in Topic and Work Overviews
  • Read your author's thoughts about their own work in Interviews.
    • Note: To find interviews, limit to primary sources and at Document Type, choose Interviews. 

Click on images below to enlarge

search by or about an author

Sample Reference Book Articles

Sample Reference Book Articles

Select Reference Sources

Why Reference?

Use Reference Sources to: 

  • Learn about general schools of thought.
  • Get a critical introduction to an author and their impact and influences.
  • Find an overview of critical approaches to a written text.
  • Learn about a historical era or cultural movement in which literary works were created.
  • Learn about issues addressed in the literature.
Tags: LGBTQIA