LibGuides: Literature in English: 18th-19th Century

Background Information and Reference Works

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online This link opens in a new window
Search for biographical articles on the lives, works, and careers of literary figures from all eras and genres
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new window
Search for entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses for authors.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Search etymology for every word in the English language
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Search encyclopedia and dictionary entries on wide range of academic disciplines
Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature This link opens in a new window
Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on topics related to American Literature

Finding Literary Criticism and other Journal Articles

Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
a compendium of critical essays from classical to contemporary periods, good coverage of "canonical" works
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and other aspects of literary studies
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarship related to research on English language and literature published worldwide
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
particularly good coverage of 19th century criticism
Victorian Database Online This link opens in a new window
Search for articles and scholarship related to Victorian and nineteenth-century British studies
Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800 - 1900, Series 3 This link opens in a new window
Search across a bibliography of newspapers and periodicals from Victorian England.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals This link opens in a new window
The vast majority of articles written for Victorian periodicals were published anonymously, or under pseudonyms. The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals, and provides a bibliography for each contributor. Print version can be found in reference: http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE000068188

Texts and Primary Sources

Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
from the Bodlein and other collections

18thConnect
18th C scholarship online, includes scholarly digital projects and peer-reviewed articles
19th Century British Pamphlets
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.

19th Century UK Periodicals: Series 1 - New Readerships This link opens in a new window
Search the full-text of 19th Century British periodicals and newspapers
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
Search for news articles from major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 This link opens in a new window
Search facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900 from the American Antiquarian Society.
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Search for scanned articles from magazines and journals from 1740 to 1900
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search for news articles from historical American newspapers published from 1690-1922
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800
Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
Search for articles printed between 1685 and 1815, covering all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life

ECCO-TCP

Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage This link opens in a new window
Search primary sources and documents that provide social context for almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824
Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources from thinkers and writers of the 18th century
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Search for original documents and essays by leading scholars in Empire Studies
Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to primary documents detailing the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of women and men in America from 1800 to 1920. digitized from Duke's Sallie Bingham Center
Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds This link opens in a new window
Search for 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library This link opens in a new window
Search for manuscripts of Victorian literature from the Berg collection of the New York Public Library
London Low Life This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. Materials include: "Fast literature," street ephemera, posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and...

NINES
19th C scholarship online, includes scholarly digital projects and secondary work

Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment This link opens in a new window
Search for historical plays, melodramas, political satires, black minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments in the United States from 1820-1900.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources from 19th century publications
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
Search primary sources related to the history of slavery
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London, 1785-2008.
Victorian Popular Culture: Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources related to Victorian popular culture. Features materials on circuses, sideshows, and freaks
Victorian Popular Culture: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources related to Victorian popular culture. Features materials on moving pictures, optical entertainments and the advent of cinema
Victorian Popular Culture: Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources related to Victorian popular culture. Features material on music halls, pleasure gardens, exhibitions, scientific institutions and many more
Victorian Popular Culture: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources related to Victorian popular culture. Features material on spiritualism, sensation, and magic
Gilded Age and Progressive Era This link opens in a new window
Explore America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality and social change. Personal collections, business records and rich visual content offer fresh perspectives on this influential period

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Background Information and Reference Works

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Texts and Primary Sources

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