Advanced Literary Study: Paradise Lost (Eng 451)

• Finding Books and Background Information

• Evaluating Internet Resources

• Finding Articles

• Internet Resources

• Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus

• MLA Citation Resources

• Britannica Online ~ The Encyclopedia Britannica. Also includes Britannica's Internet Guide.

• Oxford English Dictionary ~ The historical dictionary of the English language.

• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 65 other Illinois academic libraries. Enter relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your subject as a "Browse Subject" term in the search box.

Milton, John, 1608-1674

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain--History

Renaissance England.

European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600

• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 65 academic libraries in Illinois. 

• Gale's Literature Resource Center ~ An extremely powerful search tool, the LRC "provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline." Includes full-text aricles from the Dictionary of Literary Biography. You can also search other databases on this site, such as MLA Bibliography (some full-text available) and Literary Index. There are also external links to related, reviewed Internet web sites.

To access this database from off campus, you will need to enter the following ID when prompted: elmhurst. Then click the "Proceed" button.

• Twayne Authors Series ~ This series provides criticism of the works of major U.S., English, and world authors from Aristophanes to the present. Author entries range from 175-200 pages.

To access this database from off campus, you will need to enter the following ID when prompted: elmhurst. Then click the "Proceed" button

• Project Muse ~Project MUSE is an online library of nearly 200 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the humanities and the social sciences. (Available on-campus only)

• JSTOR ~ JSTOR is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.

(To access this resource from off campus, go to the Electronic Journals and Newspapers page, and choose JSTOR).

How do I find out if the Library has the journal I need?

• Full Text Periodicals Available Online ~ Search for the journal/magazine title, e.g. Renaissance Quarterly.

• Check Illinet Online for the journal/magazine title (not the article title), e.g. Studies in English Literature.

• To order an article the Elmhurst College library does not own, fill in this form: Request an article.

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• The Milton-L Home Page ~"A University of Richmond website devoted to the life, literature and times of John Milton." Articles, links and audio readings of Paradise Lost.

• Milton Reading Room ~ A Dartmouth College website with excellent Milton resources, including a links page and a bibliography of recent articles

• Yahoo! Directory for John Milton ~A directory of site listings on the web that feature John Milton and/or Paradise Lost. Warning- sites must be evaluated individually for content.

• Milton Quarterly (Journal is available through Project Muse) ~A scholarly journal devoted to the life and works of Milton. Full text available.

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

• MLA Citation Resources