Early Modern (1600-1800) Literary Resources
	(under construction 19 November 2003)

Renaissance   top

• Compilations
• Renaissance to Restoration: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• The 16th Century: Michael Groves' index
• Early Modern Authors: Hanover College index
• The Great Books of Western Civilization
• Byrd, William (1543-1623)
• The Keyboard Music of William Byrd: reconstructions by John Sankey
• Cervantes
• Cervantes Project 2001 at Texas A&M
• Don Quixote in Ormsby's English translation (full text - 2.2MB)
• Erasmus
  • Erasmus Text Project at the University of the South
  • In Praise of Folly (1511)
• Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
• Essays (1575), searchable; Selected Essays

• Themes
• Shakespeare Lab Project: A Workshop for Actors in New York
• Ward, Joseph P. Metropolitan Communities: Trade, Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modern London.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Reviewed by David Nicholas

• Compilations
• Early English Prose Fiction at the University of Michigan
• The 17th Century: Michael Groves' index
• Renaissance to Restoration: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• Early Modern Authors: Hanover College index
• Seventeenth-century Women Authors
• Blackletter Ballads: a miscellany
• Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes: W.B. Olson's compilation of 16th and 17th century songs and ballads, mostly prior to 1730

• Compilations
• CogWeb's Restoration Print Culture (9/99)
• The Age of Style, 1660-1800 by Margaret Stein at U. Notre Dame
• Eighteenth-century Chronology (1660-1800) by Jack Lynch (searchable)
• The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• The 17th Century: Michael Groves' index
• Images of the Great Fire of London, 1666: Guildhall Library's Collage collection
• Early Modern Authors: Hanover College index

• Text Collections
• The London Gazette
• The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive by Daniel Kinney, U. Virginia
• The Hartlib Papers Project (Sheffield)

• Documents
• The Bill of Rights (1689)

• Drama
• The World of London Theater, 1660-1800 by Patricia Craddock at Florida U
• Restoration Drama by S. Morgan at BGSU

• Mary Astell (1668-1731)
• Biographical sketch and timeline
• Presentation and excerpts from Sunsite for Women
• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (part 1 1694, part 2 1697)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage (1700)

• Aphra Behn (?-1689)
• The Aphra Behn Society Homepage (Emory)
• Aphra Behn Page (Ruth Nestvold's extensive resource collection)
• The Rover: full hypertext at U Maryland
• CogWeb's resources on Love-letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
• Frontispiece to The Trial of Lord Grey of Werk
• Cf. CogWeb's Restoration Print Culture
 
• John Bunyan (1628-1688)
• International John Bunyan Society
• Biography, Conversion, Life and Impact (religious sites)
• The Life of John Bunyan by Venables (full text)
• Bedford, UK: Bunyan Country
• Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (full text of 1942 edition)
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on John Bunyan

• John Dryden (1631-1700)
• Selected Poetry and Prose (U Toronto)
• Absolom and Achitophel (1681)

• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
• A Celebration of Women Writers, UPenn
• Poems: Ellen Moody's site
• I On Myself Can Live: An Unfinished Study of Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (Ellen Moody, GMU)
• Chronology of Ann Finch's Poems (Ellen Moody, GMU)
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (CMU)

• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
• Leviathan (1651)
• Major Hobbes page at epistemelinks
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on Thomas Hobbes

• Anne Killigrew
• Poems by Mrs Anne Killigrew (1685/6)

 
• Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
• Selected Works (Hanover College collection)
• Miscellaneous Poems (1681)

 
• John Milton (1608-1674)
• Compilations
• The Milton-L Home Page
• Luminarium
• Mindspring: Life, Dore's illustrations, Characters in PL
• Works
• Areopagitica
• The Divorce Tracts (Univ. of Brit. Columbia).
• Paradise Lost
• First edition, 1667) (line numbered hypertext at Mindspring)
• Revised edition, 1674) (line numbered hypertext at Mindspring)
• Unknown edition (easy read hypertext) Title page
• Paradise Regained (full hypertext)
• Milton Review
• The Milton Quarterly
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on John Milton

• Katherine Fowler Philips
• Poetry of Katherine Fowler Philips

• Sir William Temple (1628-1699)

 
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
• The Chapel Perilous: Poems of the Earl of Rochester
• Poems Satyrical
• John Wilmot -- Earl of Rochester
• The Earl of Rochester

• Compilations
• Eighteenth-Century Studies: An alphabetical list of resources at CMU
• Eighteenth-Century Resources - Jack Lynch's major compilation at UPenn
• International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: c18 bibliographies
• The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• The 18th Century: Michael Groves' index of authors and resources
• The Age of Style, 1660-1800 by Margaret Stein at Notre Dame
• Eighteenth Century Home Page: Java-driven at UVM
• Printed Sources of the 1990s for 18th-Century Studies: James E. May's excellent collection at Penn State - DuBois
• c18 Bibliographies On-Line: project editor Jack Lynch
• Selected Readings: Kevin Berland's monthly interdisciplinary bibliography (searchable)
• Early Modern Authors: Hanover College index
• Eighteenth-century women poets
• Internet Library of Early Journals: originals scans, roughly 1730-
• 18th-century history at About.com
• C18-l listserv archives

 

• Drama
• The World of London Theater, 1660-1800 by Patricia Craddock at Florida U

• Themes
• Concepts of Authorship in the 18th Century (Tom Kinsella, Stockton)
• Barbara Benedict, Making the Modern Reader (full text from Princeton UP)
• Gerard Jackson, The South Sea Bubble (New Australian article)
• William Hogarth (1697-1764): Etchings and engravings (Haley & Steele)
• Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook (Rictor Norton)

• Text collections
• A Miscellany: Jack Lynch's scanned texts from a number of authors
• Early Modern Authors: Hanover College index
• Themes
• Bucholz, R. O. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Reviewed by Steve Pincus.

• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Search results on Eighteenth-century Resources (Jack Lynch)
• Gulliver's Travels (1726) Chronology
• Charles Read's biography of Jonathan Swift (from The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 1880)
• Jonathan Swift: A Portrait. Victoria Glendinning. Reviewed by Lawrence Lipking (external, October 99)
• Ehrenpreis Institut für Swift Studien (Münster)
• Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
• Search results on Eighteenth-century Resources (Jack Lynch)
• The Mandeville Symposium (Queens Univ., Canada)
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on Mandeville
• Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
• Search results on Eighteenth-century Resources (Jack Lynch)
• The Rape of the Lock Home Page (Univ. of Massachusetts)
• Facsimilies of the first and fourth edition (J.A. Barr at U Florida)
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on Pope
• Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756)
• Chronology and Bibliography (Catherine Ingrassia at Virginia Polytechnic)

The Rise of the Novel   top

• Compilations
• 18th-Century English Novel Research Guide (WVU)
• Movies Based on Eighteenth-Century Novels (West Virginia Univ. Libraries)
• Mary Delarivere Manley
• Write me if you know of web resources on this early novelist
• Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
• Search results on Eighteenth-century Resources (Jack Lynch)
• A Journal of the Plague Year and other writings (Great Literature Online)
• Moll Flanders (Gutenberg plain text)
• Film directed by Pen Densham: Review1 | Review2 (with stills) | Review3
• Lesbian Pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read. A play based on Captain Charles Johnson (probably Defoe), A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (availability)
• The Friday Site (teaching Robinson Crusoe from Friday's persepective)
• Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
• Search results on Eighteenth-century Resources (Jack Lynch)
• Fielding's Joseph Andrews (Steen's overheads for an undergraduate lecture)
• William Hogarth (1697-1764)
• William Hogarth by Bernd W. Krysmanski
• Samual Johnson (1709-1784)
• Samuel Johnson by Jack Lynch at UPenn
• Johnson Society of Australia
• The Johnson Society of London
• The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page (Frank Lynch's searchable quotations)
• Doctor Johnson's Page (mostly quotations; SFSU)
• Dr Johnson's House (Gough Square)
• Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
  • Reading Clarissa in Real Time (Ellen Moody)
• Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
• The Shandean
• Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace (Japan)
• Uncle Toby's Bowling Green
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on Sterne

• William Cowper (1731-1800)
• Cowper/Newton Museum, Olney
• Encyclopaedia Britannia on William Cowper
• James Boswell (1740-1795)
• Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
• James Boswell page (Chris Whiley)
• Boswell and Burns are covered in The Sons of Ayrshire (Tom Kinsella, Stockton State)
• Guide to Boswell and Burns (OGI)
• James Macpherson & the Poetry of Ossian (William Finley)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
• Prose works at Molly Beverstein and Laura Mandell's site
• The Anna Letitia Barbauld Web Page at the U. of Saskatchewan
• William Godwin (1756-1836)
• William Godwin Archive at Pitzer College

The Gothic   top

• Class Projects from McGann and Spacks, "The Novel of Sensibility," including A Dictionary of Sensibility and The Gothic: Materials for Study
• The Literary Gothic Page
• Gothic Literature (AOL)
• Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read
• The Sickly Taper (Gothic bibliography) (Fred Frank, Allegheny College)

• William Beckford (1760-1844)
• Beckfordiana: The William Beckford site at U Gothenburg

The Romantic Period   top

• Collections
• Romantic Related Sites from Romanticism On the Net
• Romantic Circles
• The Romantics: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• The Romantic Period: Jack Lynch's site
• The Romantic Index: Michael Gamer's site
• Anne Radcliffe: Poems. Michael Gamer's collection at the University of Pennsylvania
• Anthologies and Miscellanies on 18th-c. and Romantic Literature (Laura Mandell and Rita Raley)
• British Women Romantic Poets Project
• Romantic Anthologies
• Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research at Indiana U.
  
  
• Byron
• Byron site (University of Nottingham)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Desperately Seeking Shelley: documenting the writer's life in photographs
• William Wordsworth
  • Wordsworth Variorum Archive by James M. Garrett at Occidental
• Coleridge and Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (University of Dalhousie)
• Kenneth Johnston: Did Wordsworth take the King's shilling?
• Bate on Johnston: Did the poet wander lonely as a spy?
  
  
• Greenwood's map of London, 1827
• The Quarterly Review Project  - complete abstracts 1809-24
• William Blake Archive at the University of Virginia (searchable)
• Works by Women and Anonymous Writers from 1770-1830 in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library. A bibliography compiled by Judith Pascoe.
• New Books in Nineteenth-Century British Studies
 

Science   top

• Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801) Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe, Leipzig and Winterthur, 1775-8 (Essays on Physiognomy, 1789). Digital Lavater by Ross Woodrow at the U. of Newcastle, Australia.

General Resources   top

• Bibliographical Dictionary
• British Library: Collections 1500-1800
• Columbia encyclopedia (5th ed.)
• Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (CRLV)
• Courtauld Institute of Art, London
• Encyclopaedia Britannia; see also New Century Cyclopedia of Names
• Göttingen University On-Line Art Collection
• The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (UK)
• Studies in Bibliography
• Guildhall Library, London: Images 1500 - 2000 (searchable)
• John Rylands University Library, Manchester (searchable special collection catalog)
• Microform Resources on the Internet (information and links at UCI)

Journals

• The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation

• Aesop's Fables
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• Online Books at UPenn (multi-site search engine)
• Eighteenth-century e-texts - Jack Lynch's searchable site
• Oxford Text Archive
• Penn English Department Gopher links to electronic text archives
• Poetry Archive at the University of Toronto
• Project Bartleby, Columbia (Electronic texts, poetry)
• The Oxford Book of English Verse (1919 edition)
• Virginia Modern English Collection
• Virginia Hypertext Archive of British Poetry 1780-1910

• Aphra Behn Society (1660-1800)
• ASECS - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (later 17th to early 19th)
• GEMCS - Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Renaissance to 1850)

CogWebtop

• Main Bibliography
• Bibliography of the 17th and 18th centuries
• A chronology of some 17th and 18th century philosophers and scientists
 

• Isaiah Berlin, My Intellectual Path - on Philosophy (verificationism, phenomenalism), History of Ideas and Political Theory (monism, Vico, Herder, Romanticism, pluralism, freedom, determinism, and idealism) (New York Review of Books, May 14, 1998)



"The intellectual power, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remains to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most helpful episodes in the life of mankind." --Isaiah Berlin

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