Research and Course Guides: Rome Core Program: ENGL 203

ENGL 203

This page will show you library online resources for English 203--Texts in Conversation: When in Rome.

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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Articles, journals, and books published by Wiley across a variety of disciplines.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full-text encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new window
This resource provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors.

LibrarySearch: Travel Writing
This is a link to a LibrarySearch for "travel writing," limited to reference material only. Append an authors name to the existing search (e.g. "Mark Twain," "Charles Dickens," Goethe, etc.) to seek items on those authors.

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Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
Literature Online is a single-point, online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 357,000 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference. LION's corpus includes the Annual Bibliography of Language and Literature (ABELL), as well as direct links to literary criticism and reference from an extensive collection of full-text literature journals.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A one-stop-shop resource providing access to biographies, critical analyses and reviews of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Centuries of analysis - scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

A Companion to Henry James by Greg W. Zacharias (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008-10-20
Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James s writings available today. See especially Chapter 26, "Henry James and Italy."
"Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing," in A Companion to Irish Literature by Eluned Summers-Bremner
ISBN: 9781405188098
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
A reference book chapter discussing Bowen's writing.
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism by Walter Jost (Editor); et. al.
Publication Date: 2004-02-23
Phelan, James. "Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise."

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access ebooks and scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and the social sciences. Journal content is often not available until 1+ years after publication.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides online access to a large selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals and ebooks.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A good place to start your research, Academic Search Premier provides full text for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals as well as general interest sources.