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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Electronic Primary Resources: Nineteenth
Century
- Jane
Austen
A searchable database of the letters and major novels of Jane Austen.
- Black
Drama, 1850-Present
When complete, Black Drama, 1850-Present will
contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s
to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America,
English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora
countries.
- 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.
- The Bronte Sisters and Elizabeth
Gaskell
A searchable database for
the novels Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette by Charlotte Bronte and
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, as well as the novels Mary
Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Cranford, and the biography The
Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dime
Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Original editions of over 8000 pulp novels, boys' papers,
and related paper materials dating from the 1850s into the 1910s.
- 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.
- 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
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction
A collection of 250 British and Irish
novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden
age of Gothic
fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major
novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley,
Dickens, Eliot,
Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances,
sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.
- Nineteenth Century Short
Title Catalog
Defines the printed record of the English-speaking world from
the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World
War. The project aims to index all printed works published in Britain,
its colonies and the United States of America, all printed works in
English wherever published, and all translations from English. In addition
to providing an exhaustive survey of the complete spectrum of monograph
publications in the period, the catalogue indexes thousands of periodicals,
directories and other ephemeral publications.
- 19th-Century
Masterfile
Contains multiple indexes to nineteenth-century newspapers, periodicals,
books and government documents, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
(1802–1906).
- 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 15, 2007
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