Research

Dartmouth Dante Project
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and criticism. Much of the content is based on Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Partial full-text from over 230 literary journals, 120,000+ author biographies; includes the Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature.

MLA International Bibliography (via Ebscohost) 1926+
Citations to 1.7 million article from over 4400 journals pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Citations and subject headings, with some full-text. Also contains the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

JSTOR 1886+ (dates vary)
Full-text archive of over 500 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Journals can be browsed individually or searched as a group.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present, from the OED. Includes new additions and updates.

Research Library (via ProQuest) 1971+
This large, multidisciplinary database provides abstracts from 2,600 journals in the arts and humanities, as well as business, health, social sciences, and sciences. Two-thirds of the titles include full-text.

Seventeenth-Century News
An official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association; SCN publishes commissioned scholarly reviews covering scholarship in all fields of seventeenth-century studies -- history, art history, the history of science, English, continental and American literature, music, and philosophy.

Twayne's Author Series (via Infotrac)
Over 600 books on individual U. S., English, and World authors giving an in-depth look into their life, works, and involvement in literary movements and genres.

General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
General content databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

Back to Top