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18 Century 1660-1870
Web Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > 1660-1870) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Searchable database of over 180,000 books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides published in the UK during the 18th century. Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) - A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles. 17th-18th century Burney Collection Newspapers - Digital collection of newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) representing the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. Eighteenth century journals III - A collection of rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1815. Literary Manuscripts - Facsimile images and transcriptions of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse from the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds. 'Celebrating Dickens' - Documentary from the University of Warwick exploring the life and works of Charles Dickens and his enduring legacy. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) - An international, open access journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The William Blake Archive - Searchable archive of illuminated books, drawings, paintings and engravings by William Blake. The John Clare Page - Links, essays from the John Clare Society Journal and a chronology of the life of John Clare. From Goslar to Grasmere. William Wordsworth: Electronic Manuscripts Includes manuscript materials for two Wordsworth texts (early Prelude material and Home at Grasmere) as part of a collaborative project between Lancaster University and The Wordsworth Trust. The Romantic Illustration Network Shakespeare Gallery - Online collection of images from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, 1789-1805.
The Digital Miscellanies Index - A searchable record of the contents of more than 1,600 poetic miscellanies published between 1680 and 1700. British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception – A database of bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials.
Journals Blake: an illustrated quarterly - A peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to William Blake, the British poet, artist, and engraver, and his circle. See also: Open-access digital archive of past issues. Romantic Textualities: literature & print culture 1780-1840 - annual journal of Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality, and textual studies.
Useful sections in the Library: Ground floor – E4 (1660 – 1780) Includes E 41 General social and political history of the period E 42 Literary history of the period E 43 Collections and anthologies of the writing of the period E5 (1780 – 1830) Includes E 51 General social and political history of the period E 52 Literary history of the period E 53 Collections and anthologies of the writing of the period E6 (1830 – 1870) Includes E 61 General social and political history of the period E 62 Literary history of the period E 63 Collections and anthologies of the writing of the period Z 800 bibliographies CD 5 recordings of poems by Blake, Keats, Shelley & Wordsworth First Floor - K 5 visual art
Faculty Resources Cambridge Authors - Project focusing on authors who studied at Cambridge includes Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Reading Tennyson: 23 October 2009 - Recording of Faculty of English & Trinity College reading of the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. William Wordsworth's "The Prelude" - Recording of 2010 reading of The Prelude by faculty members. Faculty Research Groups Centre for Material Texts - Faculty group for research into the physical forms in which texts are embodied and circulated.
Key Ebooks: o Iain McCalman, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age : British Culture 1776-1832 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) o Stuart Curran, The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) o Steven N. Zwicker, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) o John J. Richetti, The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) o Steven N. Zwicker, The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) o Chappell, V. C., The Cambridge Companion to Locke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) o John J. Richetti, The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) o Christopher Fox, The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) o Pat Rogers, The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2007) o David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Anne Taylor, The Cambridge Companion to Hume, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)