THE LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA

[Robert Chandler]

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The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly reference work covering world literature for English-language readers. It now provides over 14 million words in 7300 peer-reviewed reference essays and is supported by an impressive range of institutional subscriptions from universities around the world. 
The Literary Encyclopedia comprises biographies and bibliographies for major and minor writers, scholarly descriptions of texts of current scholarly interest, including those often neglected, and an increasingly fine understanding of their historical contexts via a Topics table and Calendar of Global Events. It offers excellent coverage of works written in English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Ancient Greek and Latin literatures, with growing coverage of Hispanic, postcolonial and other world literatures. It also includes essays on relevant visual artists and architects, philosophies, philosophers, politicians and politics, scientists and scientific thought.  Each year it grows by over one million words in around 400 new essays, and it expects to maintain or increase this rate across at least the next twenty years.
Ethos: The Literary Encyclopedia is owned by The Literary Dictionary Company Limited which was founded as a model for the scholarly ownership of academic publishing. It is now proud to have 2900 scholar-shareholders who are committed to delivering excellent information at the lowest cost compatible with developing its service. It is in essence non-profit, paying all revenues-above-costs as royalties to its authors and editors, and runs a Scholarship Fund to assist early-career teachers with the costs of archival research.

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