Eighteenth Century Literature
Aladin
You can access materials about an individual author using the author's last name as subject or author.
Use the subject headings below for a broader treatment of the period:

Databases
In addition to the general databases (Academic Search Premier and Proquest), try the following

  • Gale Literature Resource Center provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
  • Modern Language Association MLA International Bibliography is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
  • JStorFull-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.
  • Project Muse Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.

    Web Offerings
    Eighteenth Century Websites - A new find and one that coincidentally has extensive offerings on all the novels we'll be reading this semester.
    http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/websites.html

    Eighteenth-Century Studies - Listed on Professor Larsen's website, but bears repeating.
    http://eserver.org/18th/

    Eighteenth-Century Resources - Compiled and hosted by Jack Lynch at Rutger's University.
    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

    The Voice of the Shuttle - Listed on Professor Larsen's website, but bears repeating.
    http://vos.ucsb.edu/

    Anglistikguide - English Language studies at University Library at Göttingen, Germany.
    http://www.anglistikguide.de/

    English Server - MIT Library hosts and maintains this site.
    http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/renaissance.html

    Literary Criticism - Web sites selected by research librarians at the Internet Public Library.
    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

    English Server - Hosted by Nagoya University,Japan
    http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html#Victorian