Lewis & Clark Libraries: Crummé ENG 218 Summer 2022: Start Here

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Welcome to Watzek's research guide for Professor Hannah Crummé's summer 2022 ENG 218, Renaissance Medicine. If you have questions or would like help with your research, please contact Erica!

Gateways to Earlier Literature

Oxford English Dictionary
Provides authoritative definitions and traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period.

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According to The Times, the Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day". It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present.

Early English Books Online - EEBO This link opens in a new window
EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of scholars in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
ECCO delivers the full-text and page images of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Finding Secondary Literature

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes the scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Includes article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore.

The Modern Language Association's bibliographic index of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from journals and series published worldwide. It indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. It contains in each record a bibliographic citation for a journal article, book, or other item including information about the libraries that own the library resources. It now includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which provides full information on more than 4,000 journals and series in the MLA International Bibliography Master List of Periodicals. The Directory of Periodicals includes many of the periodicals that are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography database. The electronic Directory of Periodicals is updated every six months.
Primo This link opens in a new window
Primo is the library's search engine for books at Watzek Library and at Pacific Northwest Academic Libraries via the Summit delivery system. It also contains audiovisual materials like DVDs and CDs as well as journal articles and ebooks.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Provides an introduction to the specialized literature within the fields of Buddhism, Classics, Environmental Science, Geology, International Relations, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, Philosophy and Victorian Literature.

OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best.

Librarian for English Literature

Erica Jensen

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