Guides: ENG 335 Environmental Literature: Home

Find Articles in Literature Specific Databases

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and around the world.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Coverage is international and includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and their proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors within the Bibliography are included.

Multidisciplinary Databases

JSTOR
With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources plus over 40,000 ebooks, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Online Books

Find online books by searching topics like these and limiting the results to ebooks:

su: Environmentalism in literature.

su: Nature in literature.

su: ecology in literature.

Finding Thoreau by Richard W. Judd
ISBN: 9781625343895
Publication Date: 2018-09-30
Finding Thoreau traces the reception of Thoreau's work from the time of his death to his ascendancy as an environmental icon in the 1970s, revealing insights into American culture's conception of the environment.

Author Websites

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky
Collection of links to resources on Wendell Berry; maintained by Br. Tom Murphy
Norman Maclean [University of Chicago Press site]
Photos, excerpts, essay by John G. Cawelti
T.C. Boyle
Official web site. Excerpts/reader's guide, about the author, cartoons, photo gallery, message board, frequently asked questions, links.
Terry Tempest Williams
Biography, interview
N. Scott Momaday
Pioneer of Modern Native American Literature
Paul Hawken
Biography and information about writings
Drawdown
100 solutions to reverse global warming

Why Google Scholar?

Question: Why would you use Google Scholar?

Answer: Google Scholar identifies scholarly research materials from a broad range of subject areas.

Google Scholar offers a "cited by" feature - it will display a list of documents which cited the document you originally retrieved. This can be useful in determing how influential a source has been. The list only includes documents available in Google Scholar, though.

Go into the preferences of Google Scholar and select Pepperdine University from Library Links.

Why is searching the MLA Bibliography better than Google?

The MLA International Bibliography contains over 2.5 million records that pertain specifically to language and literature. Material from other disciplines, like biology or political science, is not included.
The Bibliography provides the most comprehensive listing of scholarly material in language, literature, culture, and folklore, including publications not available on the Web.
A professional indexing staff and scholars in relevant fields review books, essay collections, journals, bibliographies, and electronic publications to create the most accurate listing possible.
The materials covered come from reputable publishers in over one hundred countries.
Indexers use controlled vocabulary as subject headings, enabling more precise searches than user-chosen keywords would allow.
Each citation contains the information users need to create a bibliography as part of a research project.