English Literature Research Guide

Full-text Primary Sources

Manuscripts

• British Literary Manuscripts Online
• Literary manuscripts : Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
• Literary manuscripts. 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
• Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700

Digital Book and Journal Collections

• Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
• Orlando, women’s writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present
• DEEP:database of early english playbooks
• Early European Books: printed sources to 1700
• EEBO: Early English Books Online (1475-1700)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1899)
• Sabin Americana 1500-1926.
• Early American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800).
• Early American Imprints. Series 2, (1801-1819).
• America's Historical Imprints (Series I and II)
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
• Eighteenth Century Journals: a portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c. 1685-1835
• American Periodicals (1740-1940).
• 17th-18th century Burney Collection Newspapers
• Past Masters: works and correspondence of selected authors
• Electronic Enlightenment - (17th-18th Century letters, documents, and correspondence).
• North American Theatre Online - (Texts and production info).

Textual and Visual Collections

• Empire online
• Nineteenth century collections online 
• Romanticism:life, literature and landscape
• Popular culture in America: rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest
• Medieval travel writing
• Travel writing, spectacle and world history
• Victorian popular culture: moving pictures, optical instruments and the advent of cinema
• London low life:street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld
• Everyday life and women in America:c1800-1920
• Defining gender, 1450-1900

Newspapers

• Gale NewsVault
• American Periodicals (1740-1940)
• Times Digital Archive (1785-2007)
• New York Times (1851-2010)
• Washington Post (1877-1997)
• PressDisplay

Archives

• Archives Unbound
• ArchiveGrid
• Archive finder

Locating Book Reviews

Reviews 18^th and 19^th Centuries.

Forster, Antonia. Index to book reviews in England, 1749-1774. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.    Z1035 A1 F67 1990 Reference Collection (paper copy)

Forster, Antonia. Index to book reviews in England, 1775-1800. British Library, 1997.  Z1035 A1 F672 1997 Reference Collection (paper copy)

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in humanities journals, 1802-1974.  Research Publications, 1982.  10 volumes Z1035 A1 C63 1982 Reference Collection (paper copy)

Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974. Carrollton Press, 1979.   15 volumes Z1035 A1 C64 1979 Reference Collection (paper copy)

Reviews 20^th Century

An Index to book reviews in the humanities, 1960-1990.  31 volumes Z1035 A1 I63 Reference Collection (paper copy)