Does Literature Online contain resources for non-English-language authors?
Yes. The main focus of Literature Online is on English-language authors: our full-text database of primary works give unparalleled coverage of the English-language literature of the British Isles and the United States, and also extends to other colonial and post-colonial literatures in English. ABELL (the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) is also a specialist resource focusing on English-language authors. As Literature Online has evolved, however, with the addition of more and more secondary resources in the Criticism and Reference section, we have added significant resources for authors writing in languages other than English: we include biographies for authors who are frequently studied in translation, such as Kafka, Ibsen and Dostoevsky; non-English-language authors are extensively covered in the Reference Works section in works such as the Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature and the Encyclopedia of the Novel; our full-text journals also include
