Access every surviving Old English text and millions of words of Old English and Latin.
The Dictionary of Old English Corpus is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOEC represents about three million words of Old English and another two million words of Latin.
Provides searchable access to the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, 400-1200 AD
The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) is a full text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 AD / CE. It includes more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, and more. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.
Contains three Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, the Bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
The Middle English Compendium is comprised of an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
Provides access to page images of printed work from the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subjects include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Provides access to rare texts inaccessible in print form together with early editions of all the best-known works of fictional prose from the period 1500-1700
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500-1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form.
Contains manuscripts that were written or compiled by women in the British Isles, 16th-17th centuries.
1500-1700; the manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. One of the key attractions of the Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little-known material from widely scattered locations.
For databases related to Shakespeare and his works, see the list of Drama Resources.
Provides access to books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, and more in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. It contains works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. ECCO is primarily in English, but does include other languages.
A collection of works by writers from the British Isles from the period 1700-1780
A collection of works from the period 1500-1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form.
Provides access to rare journals about eighteenth-century social, political and literary life, 1685-1835
c.1685-1835; bringing together rare journals, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
Discover 900,000 peer-reviewed digital objects relating to 19th century scholarship from 146 federated sites.
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Their activities are driven by three primary goals: to serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), both British and American; to support scholars priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials; to develop software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis. [This resource is publicly available.]
Primary source collections of the 19th century, covering the age of industrialization and technological innovation, political revolution, colonialism, nation building, educational reform, and other topics.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012. The nineteenth century was the first great age of industrialization and technological innovation. It was an age of political revolution and reform, nationalism and nation building, the expansion of empire and colonialism, growing literacy and education, and the flowering of culture both popular and high. It was an age that witnessed the development of the power-driven printing press and the massive explosion of written material that dwarfs the output of the centuries that preceded it. Any undertaking that attempts to synthesize the vast array of nineteenth-century content may be at best only provisionally comprehensive.
Provides access to 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s.
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Bronts feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.
Provides access to unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis.
Unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis behind the periods greatest works. Researchers and students can trace the close interconnection of these Victorian authors and subsequently their texts through the mass of personal correspondence between them, revealing the close circles in which the Victorian literary world moved.
A full text searchable resource, containing images of rare books, ephemera, maps, 18th- early 20th century
London Low Life is a full text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
The Victorian Popular Culture portal is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist sances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.
A database designed as a tool for identifying and analyzing the representation of dialect in 100 British novels published between 1800 and 1836. Each of the 100 novels is described in terms of plot, genre and setting, and tagged extracts from each novel are presented, with speakers classified in terms of place of origin and social role.
This extensive collection, which features over 300 digitized documents from the British Library collection and beyond and dozens of multimedia essays by scholars and writers, offers material that may appeal to both English literature and drama scholars, readers, and fans. Archival material includes a notebook draft of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, George Orwell's original notes for 1984, and much more. This collection can also be explored by theme.
The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett's works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research: the project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett's manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, a search engine, and an analysis of the textual genesis of his works.
Search and view facsimile images of 400 works of American prose fiction, 1789-1875
Early American Fiction 1789-1875 offers the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
Provides access to books, pamphlets, broadsides, and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800
Ongoing; based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, this resource serves as the foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of over 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Provides access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801-1819
Ongoing, Shaw-Shoemaker covers every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.
Dime novels were a format of inexpensive popular fiction produced in the United States between 1860 and 1930. Originally featuring stories about the American frontier and the West, cowboys eventually gave way to detectives, like Nick Carter, and boy adventurers and entrepreneurs, like Frank Reade Jr. This site contains materials from two major dime novel collections in Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, the Albert Johannsen and Edward T. LeBlanc Collections.
An organization that seeks to promote and preserve freedom of expression and literature, PEN's online archive contains audio and video from lectures, panels, and discussions collected since 1966.
Brings together 82,000 pages and more than 11,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present.
Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources, fully searchable.
Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Provides access to full transcriptions of texts, with a focus on materials that are rare or inaccessible, 1400-1850.
1400-1850; full text collection of writing by women in English with currently about 200 texts and growing. Includes a wide range of subjects and genres, and all texts are transcribed in full, including front and back matter.
Provides access to the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the history of bookbinding, 1554-21st century.
1554-21st century; the Stationers Company Archive is an important resource for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding.
Provides access to advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature, current.
Current; JSTOR Lives of Literature supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature and broadens the range of authors and texts covered on JSTOR.