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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Electronic Primary Resources: Eighteenth Century
- Jane
Austen
A searchable database of the letters and major novels of Jane Austen.
- British Periodicals
Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. It is particularly strong in nineteenth-century resources. On completion, this resource will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages.
- Canadian Poetry
Contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems
by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald
Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering
a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century
to the early twentieth.
- Chadwyck-Healey
Individual Literature Collections
Lists the individual literature collections available from
Chadwyck-Healey. Many of these collections are also listed separately
on this page. These collections are cross-searchable via Literature
Online (LION).
- Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry
The definitive source for locating poems in anthologies. The
online version contains a series of key Columbia poetry titles, such
as The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, and The
Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies.
- William
Congreve
A searchable database for The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The
Old Bachelor, and The Way of the World.
- Defining
Gender
Examines constructions of femininity and masculinity through “five centuries
of advice literature.” Contains over 60,000 documents from the medieval
period through the nineteenth century divided into five thematic sections: Conduct & Politeness;
Domesticity & the Family; Consumption & Leisure; Education & Sensibility;
The Body (available Summer 2007). Additionally, each section features concise,
scholarly essays that link to referenced source material.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
This database reproduces
high quality digital images of every page of 150,000 books published
in
English between 1701 and 1800. It is a dynamic resource, which allows
full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages in the fields
of literature, history, politics, culture, religion, law, the fine
arts and more.
- Eighteenth-Century
English Fiction
This full-text searchable database contains a selection of works in English prose
from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Authors in this
collection include Burney, Defoe, Fielding, Goldsmith, Johnson, Mackenzie, Richardson,
Smollett, Sterne, Swift, and Walpole together with numerous lesser-known figures.
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction
A collection of 96 complete
works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from
the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry
Fielding, Eliza Haywood,
Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan
Swift.
- Eighteenth-Century Journals II
A full-text searchable database of British and Irish newspapers and
periodicals from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center published
between 1699 and 1812. Search results display the digital image of
the original and a transcript of each page. Many of the titles are
extremely rare and do not overlap with EEBO, Early English Newspapers,
or ECCO. The database supports all aspects of eighteenth-century studies,
including British and European literature, theatre and popular entertainment,
politics and religion, the American and French Revolutions, social
life, gender, the origins and rise of Romanticism, exoticism and imperialism,
and the culture of print.
- English Drama
A unique collection of more than 3,900
plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English
from the medieval
mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
- English Poetry
This database of the complete English
poetic canon from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth
century is
drawn from the works of more than 1,250 poets from 600 to
1900. English
Poetry contains the full text of over 165,000 poems taken
from 4,500 printed
sources. The bibliographic basis of English Poetry is the
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; works in English
of Welsh,
Scottish and Irish poets are also included.
- English Poetry, Second Edition
Redefines the English
poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement
of the original
English Poetry collection with enhanced
functionality and the addition of more
than 20,000 poems. The most comprehensive archive of English
verse available now offers incomparable representation
both of the literary
heritages of former colonial countries and of the poetic
legacies of English writers who have only been brought
back to scholarly
attention during the last thirty years.
- English Prose Drama
The database comprises 1653 plays written in
English and either acted on or intended for
the stage,
which are
either wholly
or predominantly in prose by 356 named and 42 anonymous
authors. In addition to plays, English Prose Drama also covers masques,
entertainments, and certain closet dramas. It includes
both original works, as well
as adaptations and translations.
- ESTC
(English Short Title Catalogue)
Includes bibliographical records for all types of material published in Great
Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere in the world from 1475 to 1800.
ESTC is still in progress. Currently it is about 70% complete for 1475-1640 and
50% for 1641-1700; the 18th-century segment will be ongoing for a number of years.
- The
Gerritsen Collection
A cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. The database spans
more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages
in full image. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country,
as well as the impact of that country's feminist movement on other countries
and their movements.
- LitFinder
Contains over 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, essays,
and speeches
- Past Masters Series
A collection of full-text humanities resources. Titles most
relevant to British literary studies can be found under the categories
English Letters and Women Writers. Titles in one or both of these categories
include the letters of Bentham, Locke, Swift, Pope, Burney, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Dickens, Hobbes, Tennyson, Hardy, Synge, Yeats, Baillie, Piozzi,
Walpole, Defoe, and Burns. Every word in each title is indexed, and search
results retrieve every paragraph containing the search term. You can
search more than one title in a category using the power search feature,
but you cannot search more than one category at a time.
- Women
Writers Online
A full-text, searchable database of works by women writers,
including letters, speeches, plays, poetry and novels from 1400 to
1850.
Last modified:
October 3, 2007
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