Contents

From this page you can access the following index:

Indexes of over three thousand completed profiles: People, Works, Events & Topics.

The Literary Encylopedia comprises five cross-related data tables:

People – lists 5815 people, mainly writers but also including philosophers, scientists and others of note.

Works – lists 17261 works, mainly literary but also philosophical and scientific.

Topics – lists 1542 topics, including many historical events, explanations of critical terms and issues in critical theory. . .

Links – over 4000 selected links to quality resources on the internet.

Bookshop currently listing books from Cambridge University Press, Ashgate, the British Library and Northcote House. We will be adding works by Faber & Faber in the course of 2006.

We are adding profiles as fast as they can be written, generally 10-20 per week, but as these are written by scholars of standing in their fields you will appreciate such quality can only be achieved with patience. Icons indicate in each search-results screen if an entry is complete or incomplete, and where there are links ot other resources. Even where entries have not yet been completed, each data table is richly stocked with metadata so that it can be searched in simple and advanced ways – for country, gender, genre, date, etc., or for finding an author's or text's contemporaries. This is very complex digital environment which rewards exploration. Please see our Guide for full advice on how to use the site.