duPont Library: English 359: Renaissance Literature I: Find Articles

Find Examples of Close Reading

You can find examples of scholars reading texts very carefully and writing short interpretations of the texts. Review articles in this literary journal for good models of style and substance to follow for your papers.

1. Go to The Explicator journal

2. At the top of the screen, the search box is ready to search "within this journal."

3. Search the title of the work and the author's name to find examples of these close readings.

English Literature Databases

The databases below are among the best to use when performing research in Literature. For an expanded listing of possible resources, see the English Literature listing in the Electronic Databases by Subject. If the article’s full text is not immediately available, use the Journal Finder to help you locate the full-text. (Just type in the title of the journal to see where it is available.) If we do not have access to it, you can request the article via Sewanee ILL, our interlibrary loan program.

Preferred Databases

Proquest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities and history, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text.
Includes: African American Poetry, American Drama 1714–1915, American Poetry, Annual Bibliography Of English Language And Literature, 1920– (Abell), Canadian Poetry, Early American Fiction 1789–1850, Early American Fiction 1789–1875, Early English Prose Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Drama (including Shakespeare), English Poetry, The Faber Poetry Library, King James Bible, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Twentieth-Century African American Poetry, Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Twentieth-Century English Poetry.
Search interface: Chadwyck-Healey.

Also contains criticism (journal articles), Reference works, Biographies, Bibliographies, Websites, video clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work, Shakespeare audio plays.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
Search interface: EBSCOhost.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. We subscribe to the "Standard Collection" of journals (which is over 300 titles, but not all of the journals on the site) and have purchased a small number of ebooks. You may want to limit your search to "Only content I have full access to."
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000 academic journals and over 70,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. Most journals are covered from their first issue up to 3-5 years from the current year, and include previous titles. Also includes the current issues of some titles. Note: there are some journals in JSTOR for which Sewanee does not have full-text access. In the Advanced search you can limit to only the content available to you.
Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index of sources about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes scholarly periodicals, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies, monographs, and essay collections. Date coverage: 1943 to present. Updated daily. Citations only

Specialized Journals

ELH
Issues online from 1934 to 2011.
ELH
Issues online from 1993 to present.
English Literary Renaissance
Online coverage from 1997 to present.
Essays in Criticism
Issues online from 1951 to present.
Philosophy and Literature
Issues online from 1977 to present.
Renaissance & Reformation
Issues online from 1964 to present.
Renaissance Quarterly
Issues online from 1954 to 2015.
Renaissance Quarterly
Issues online from 2015 to present.
SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Issues online from 1999 to present.
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Issues online from 1961 to 2011.

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