Use the Citation Linker to see if Lehigh has access to a specific article.
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.
This brief (3:50) tutorial will show you how to use the new library single search. The library single search allows researchers to search all of the libraries resources at once, rather than searching those resources individually.
Lehigh Libraries has a large collection of print and electronic books to support the study of literature.
Lehigh Libraries subscribes to many specialized dictionaries. Use these resources to learn the terminology used in your field. You can find these specialized dictionaries by searching the Libraries' catalog. For example, the following subject search will retrieve books that will help you learn the terminology used in the study of poetry: poetry AND dictionary
This search will retrieve books like The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms.
Specialized dictionaries for studying historical figures or etymology:
The 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.
Characteristics:
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Indexes, abstracts and provides selective full-text for a broad spectrum of magazines, journals and newspapers.
Upgraded from Academic Search Premier in 2019.
Full text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title. Primarily humanities and social sciences titles.
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available through JSTOR. A broad range of disciplines are represented.
The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Search across more than 30 databases at one time. Full-text available. Includes newspapers, journals, popular magazines, trade publications and more.
Series 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.
Fully 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.
Resources for deciphering period handwriting:
General primary source resources:
A listing of the historical newspaper resources to which Lehigh subscribes:
Newspaper coverage of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
Internet resources for studying Middle English literature:
Internet resources for studying Medieval literature:
Internet resources for studying Shakespeare:
Library databases for studying Shakespeare:
Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863–66, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).
Internet resources for studying 19th-century American literature:
Library databases useful for studying British literature:
"Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing."
Internet sources for studying British literature:
Internet resources for studying Romantic literature:
Internet resources for studying Victorian literature:
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