Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century by Peggy Keeran and Jennifer Bowers

Volume Description, Reviews, and About the Authors

Research Guides:

• James L. Harner Literary Research Guide

Biographical Sources:

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

General Literary Bibliographies

• Project Muse
• Year's Work in English Studies

Letters, Diaries, Verse, and More:

• Electronic Enlightenment
• Union First Line Index of English Verse, 13th-19th Century
• UK RED: The Experience of Reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945

Locating Archives or Manuscripts:

• Access to Archives
• Archives Wales
• ARCHON Directory
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• Union First Line Index of English Verse
• Scottish Archive Network
• WorldCat
• WorldCat.org

Archive and Manuscript Repositories and Collections:

• Lewis Walpole Library
• National Archives of the UK
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Library of Scotland
• National Library of Wales
• National Records of Scotland
• British Library Archives and Manuscripts

Digital and Microform Collections:

• The Boswell Collection
• Diaries and Papers of Elizabeth Inchbald
• Electronic Enlightenment
• John Johnson Collection
• Mapping the Republic of Letters

Periodical Research Resources:

• MLA Directory of Periodicals
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

​General:

• Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies
• ELH: English Literary History
• English Language Notes
• Essays in Criticsm: A Quarterly Journal of Literary History
• Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History
• Modern Language Review
• New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation
• Philological Quarterly
• PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
• Review of English Studies
• Scottish Literary Review
• Studies in the Novel
• Women's Writing
• Yearbook of English Studies

Scholarly Gateways:

• Romantic Circles
• Early Modern Resources
• Restoration and 18th Century
• Eighteenth-Century Resources
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Eighteenth-Century Studies

Period and General Electronic Text Archives:

• 18thConnect
• Renascence Editions
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
• British Women Playwrights around 1800
• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
• Representative Poetry Online
• Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
• Modern English Collection
• Novels-On-Line
• Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker
• Project Gutenberg
• University of Oxford Text Archive

Author Sites:

• Thomas Gray Archive
• Jonathan Swift
• Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825)
• Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace

Reference Tools:

• BibSite
• Dictionary of Sensibility
• British Book Trade Index
• Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826
• Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine
• Digital Miscellanies Index
• 18th Century Bibliography
• A Gothic Chronology
• Leeds Verse Database
• c18 Bibliographies On-Line
• Romantic Chronology
• Norton Topics Online
• Scottish Book Trade Index
• Swift Criticism Database
• 18th Century Online Encyclopedia: Enlightenment and Revolution
• Historical Outline of Restoration and 18th Century British Literature

Current Awareness Sources and Associations:

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Early Modern Online Bibliography
• British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• C18-L: Resources for 18th-Century Studies across the Disciplines
• cfp.english.upenn.edu: eighteenth century
• The Defoe Society
• Early Modern Commons
• Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
• International Gothic Association
• International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Johnson Society of London
• The Long Eighteenth
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Cultural and Historical Sources:

• Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900
• European History Primary Sources
• EuroDocs
• The Sister Arts: British Gardening, Painting, and Poetry, 1700-1832
• The Grub Street Project
• National Portrait Gallery
• Vive la difference! The English and French Stereotype in Satirical Prints

Union Catalogs:

• Center for Research Libraries
• Copac
• WorldCat
• WorldCat.org

National Library Catalogs

• National Library of Ireland
• National Library of Wales
• Library of Congress
• British Library
• National Library of Scotland
• British Library Archives and Manuscripts

Finding Reprints, Microform, and Digital Collections:

• Library of Congress Bibliographies and Guides
• Eighteenth-Century English Microform Holdings - Michigan State University
• Pickering & Chatto
• Center for Research Libraries Great Britain Topic Guide
• WorldCat
• WorldCat.org

Books and Other Printed Matter:

• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Internet Archive

Newspapers:

• Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century
• English Short Title Catalogue
• Irish Newspaper Archives
• British Library Main Catalogue
• WorldCat
• WorldCat.org

Periodicals:

• English Short Title Catalogue
• WorldCat
• WorldCat.org