Literatures in English - Nineteenth Century

Dictionaries

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
OED: Oxford English Dictionary

Full Text Resources

African-American Poetry 1760-1900 Searchable collection of poems of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. The bibliographic source for the database is Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975 by W.P. French, et al.

American Drama (1714-1915)
A growing collection of full-text American dramatic literature, from the colonial period to the present.

American Drama
Available through Expanded Academic ASAP (6/22/2002 - current). American Drama is published twice yearly by the American Drama Institute. It solicits scholarly studies of dramatic literature from colonial to contemporary times, which feature critical examination of trends and discussions of diversity in scripts for stage, film, radio, and television; the careers of dramatists; and various theories of the development of drama. It welcomes submissions from the practitioners of every methodology, be it traditional historicist, new historicist, feminist, Marxist, structuralist, semiotic, or any other.

American Memory Project The Library of Congress is offering broad public access to American Memory collections as a contribution to education and scholarship. Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and/or by the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. Additionally, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of Library of Congress gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.

American Periodical Series 1740-1900
Digitized images of articles from over 1100 American periodicals published between 1741 and 1900.

American Poetry Full-Text Database
Fully searchable and browsable database of American poetry, including over 35,000 poems by more than 200 American poets. Also covered are six landmark anthologies of American poetry.

Bible in English (990-1970)
The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations. For scholars of English literature, particular attention has been given to the Renaissance period. All the most significant texts from Tyndale to the King James Bible, including the highly influential Coverdale, Bishops' and Geneva Bibles, appear. For researchers in the development of the English language, texts from all eras are included, with emphasis upon versions that closely represent its contemporary state. For biblical and theological scholars, texts from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and non-conformist traditions are represented. The complete English text of each edition is included, with all prefatory matter, notes, running heads and glossaries. Each individual text may be browsed, or you may search on keywords within a particular time period, book, version or testament.

Documenting the American South
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture from the 17th century through 1922. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Early American Fiction 1789-1875
Full text of 634 first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1875.

English Poetry Database 600-1900
Virtually the entire canon of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to 1900; in all more than 165,000 poems by 1,250 poets drawn from 4,500 printed sources. Users may search by keywords and may employ Boolean operators. A complete, searchable bibliography of contained works is also available. Certain categories of material have been excluded from the database: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, verse drama intended for the stage, and poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies.

 English Prose Drama (PhiloLogic)
Plays published in English prose from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century, covering over 1600 works.

English Verse Drama 2000 works 13th century through 19th century
More than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works. English Verse Drama contains works acted on or intended for the stage, which are either wholly or predominantly in verse. Masques, entertainments, translations and adaptations are included, along with certain closet dramas omitted from the English Poetry Full-Text Database. The entire text of each verse drama is included.

Evans Digital Edition
Page images and searchable ASCII text from the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography.

HarpWeek 1857-1875
Harper's Weekly: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II (1857-1877). Browse facsimile pages or search using a detailed index.

Literary Theory
Key texts from the history of literary theory and criticism.

Mark Twain Project
The Mark Twain Project Online applies technology to more than 4 decades of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers online access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents. Currently available: More than 2,300 letters written between 1853 and 1880.

Modern Era 1800-1950 (Past Masters)
Correspondence of important figures in 19th- and 20th-century English literature, including Matthew Arnold, George Boole, Henry Bradley, Robert Bridges, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, James George Frazer, Harold Laski, David Livingstone, Katherine Mansfield, Harriet Martineau, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, I.A. Richards, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Temple, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.

New York Times (Proquest Historial Newspapers) 1851-
Searchable full-image articles from the first issue in 1851 through the end of 2001.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Provides online access to a large range of 19th century materials, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well as other selected indexes to 19th century periodicals and patent and government Indexes.

Nineteenth Century Fiction
Ninteenth-Century Fiction includes 250 electronic texts from the Victorian canon, including Gothic horror, social satire, Romantic and historical fiction, "novels of ideas," childrens stories, and novels of "the New Woman." In addition to the better-known novels, the collection covers many neglected or little-known works, most of them out of print or difficult to find. Works from 102 authors from the period 1782 to 1903 are included. Each text is reproduced in full, including all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. Bibliographic details are included from each of the editions used along with illustrations where available. In general, the first edition of a work has been selected, although in some cases prior magazine serializations and corrected second editions have occasionally been preferred. In all cases in which serialization of a work preceded publication in volume form, details of the vehicle and dates of first publication are given.

Nineteenth Century in Print
Over 1,500 books, fully searchable with page images, as well as extended runs of 23 American magazines, among them Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, and Scientific American. Part of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, and specifically part of the Making of America collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Michigan.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. NOTE: This database is a work-in-progress, and should be completed by the end of the year 2006. There may be some oddities. For example, the list of titles that are currently in the database is available by clicking on "browse" rather than on "title list."

Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870
Available through Historical Newspapers Online (1800 - 1870). Provides access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to The Times of London.

Periodicals Index Online
electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, some dating back 300 years, in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western languages. Over 400 journals also contain cover-to-cover full text articles. Indexed journals are covered from their first issues through 1995, and may be searched by keyword, author, journal title, language, and year of publication.

Times Digital Archive
Searchable full text for the London Times, 1785-1985.

Victorian Web Includes full texts of literary works.

Victorian Women Writers Project
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.

Women Writers Online. Texts from 1400-1850.
Women Writers Online is a service of the Brown University Women Writers Project. The texts cover a period from 1400 to 1850. This collection includes a significant number of texts from Renaissance and Restoration England. Another focus are women writers of the Romantic period. All of these texts can be browsed, searched (individually or collectively), and read conveniently online. SGML tagging supports very detailed analysis.

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,239 unedited, 648 fully edited and encoded) by 1,383 authors. (Status: July 1, 2003) A project of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), hosted by the Digital Library Program, Indiana University.

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Indexes/Bibliographies of Journal Articles and Books

ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
ABELL includes more than 700,000 bibliographic records in English and other European languages comprising scholarship on the English language, literature, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Available through Web of Science (Comes up as an option at the bottom of the opening screen)

Humanities Abstracts
Bibliographic citations from more than 450 periodicals in topics such as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Records added since 1994 have abstracts, and many citations have links to the full text of the article. Humanities Abstracts is searchable by keyword, author, title, and a variety of other fields. Articles in periodicals not held by NU libraries may be requested online through the Interlibrary Loan Deparment using the 'ILL' button at the top of the screen.

Humanities International Index
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records. The database includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Index is a unique, essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities.

Index to English Literary Periodicals 1681-1941
The English Literary Periodicals series consists of 233 titles published during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England. While primarily literary in focus, these periodicals deal with a wide variety of subjects and thus offer the historian or scholar valuable resource material not only in the area of literature, but on such topics as theater, art, music, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics, religion and science. Of special interest is the English slant on life in America and particularly the American Revolution.

MLA
The MLA International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Users may search or browse by author, title, subject and by several other fields using the 'Search Builder' feature. In addition, searches may be limited by language, publication type and publication year or range of years. The database includes a searchable thesaurus, and allows subject searches to be focused using 'role indicators' and 'subfield codes.'

Victorian Database
Interdisciplinary in coverage, Victorian Database contains information on publications from 500+ journals on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Sociology, Women’s Studies, Law and Education; Science, Technology and Medicine; and Literature - Drama, Poetry, Prose, and Fiction. It includes approximately 65,000 books, periodical articles and dissertation abstracts published from 1970 to 1997, and review citations of books published from 1995 onward.

Reference - Quick Lookup

Biography Resource Center

Literature Resource Center

OED: Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford Reference Online:

• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
• The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
• The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
• The Oxford Companion to English Literature
• The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare
• The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
• The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
• A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

XREFERPLUS:

• Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing
• The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature
• The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story