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LTWR 503A: Renaissance to Romanticism

Use this guide as a starting point for your library research.

Getting Started

Renaissance era painting of six boats on a lagoon, manned by rowers and people with bows and arrows, all standing. Flowers, waterbirds, and other animals are visible in the water. A cluster of buildings with peaked rooves stand in the background, under a sky filled with clouds and birds in flight.

               Hunting on the Lagoon (Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490-1495), courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Introduction

This web page is to help you locate appropriate scholarly sources for your assignments with literary commentary.

To make best use of your time, strategize your search--both in the resources you select and search terms you use. Doing subject-specific research in a general database, rather than a subject-focused database is going to leave you out of the most important scholarly conversations and use up precious time!

Your draft research essay requires a minimum of 10 sources, but finding more gives you flexibility as you develop your arguments, so keep that in mind as you explore the resources offered in the tabs on this page.