Search For A Specific Article
Use the Citation Linker to see if Lehigh has access to a specific article.
Interlibrary Loan
Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.
Off Campus Access To Library Resources
Use Lehigh's Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect to library resources from off campus. Make sure to choose Library/International from the Group drop-down menu when you sign into the VPN. Learn more about the VPN.
(updated 4/11/2024)
Attribution
This guide was adapted from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library guide on library research in English literature. Many thanks to Harriett Green for sharing her work.
Core Article Databases
- Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new windowSeries of authoritative guides, written by leading experts in the field and used by students, scholars and non-specialists. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics, cultural studies, and music.
- Proquest One Literature This link opens in a new windowFully searchable library of over 260,000 full text works of English and American literature. Contains full text of plays, poems and fiction from the year 600 to the present in English including Shakespeare and the Bible. Newest offerings include African-American poetry to 1900 with more works forthcoming.
- Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowAccess to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography, described below, plus full text from more than 1000 journals. Covers topics in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
More Article Databases
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title. Primarily humanities and social sciences titles.
- Project MUSE: Scholarly Journals Online This link opens in a new windowOffers over 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.
- Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford DNB defines "national" as British, broadly construed to encompass large portions of the former British empire. It was first published between 1885 and 1900, and updated frequently. New biographies are added several years after the death of the subject.
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowCovers the full spectrum of English language usage, from formal to slang.
Humanities Librarian
Heather Simoneau
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