Guides: FSEM 100: The Spirit of Travel: Article Databases & Research Tools

Library Databases for Literary Pilgrimages

OneSearch is the library's main search tool. It includes physical and digital items -- books, videos, articles, music, etc. -- that the library owns or licenses. It also includes items in libraries worldwide.

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Library Databases that focus on literature criticism and literature, in general.

Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A literature reference database that includes biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. The LRC is built on the Gale Group three author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online.
MLA Bibliography (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
The leading international index of journals, books, dissertations, and more on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
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Search by genre, title, or author. Includes reading recommendations and award lists.

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View the full list of 23 databases at Stetson that may be useful for literature research.

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These databases cover a variety of subject areas and most have a variety of source types included in them. These are good places to search for information about rituals, cultural and historical information, politics, etc.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A broad, general full-text database that includes both popular and scholarly periodicals. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, sciences, and humanities.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles in the arts, business, health, medicine, history, science, technology, social sciences. Includes scholarly articles, professional publication, and magazines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available. JSTOR has a number of other collections to which we do not subscribe. Provided through a cooperative agreement with Stetson's College of Law Library.

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Full-text eBooks on literary pilgrimages

Southern Bound by John S. Sledge; Walter B. Edgar (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781611172362
Publication Date: 2013-03-15
Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than one hundred of the best pieces culled from Sledge's total output of approximately seven hundred columns.
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780062004833
Publication Date: 2010-11-02
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors. Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurston's personal story, told in her own words.
The Untidy Pilgrim by Eugene Walter; Katherine Clark (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780817311438
Publication Date: 2001-08-09
This classic coming-of-age novel, winner of the Lippincott Fiction Prize for Young Novelists in 1954, is a deliberately comic portrayal of "Mobile madness," a malady specific to the Gulf Coast but recognizable by all. Eugene Walter's novel is about a young man from a small central Alabama town who goes south of the "salt line" to Mobile to work in a bank and study law.
Thoreau's Country by David R. Foster; Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9780674037151
Publication Date: 2009-06-30
In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks...

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Library Databases for Literary Pilgrimages

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Full-text eBooks on literary pilgrimages