The Lit'ry Life: "The Literary Encyclopedia...

...is a free scholarly publication owned collectively by its contributors, most of whom teach in universities. Its entries represent the state of the art in scholarly understanding....To date we have over 700 distinguished contributors, more than 1650 completed entries and indexed entries on 5150 writers, 14,500 works and 1275 topics." -- from the website. <http://www.litencyc.com/>