c18th

This collection of links focuses on literary culture in the early-modern period/long eighteenth century. It is by no means complete; please feel free to suggest further links in the comments.

See also my c18th Pinterest pages.
See also MANUSCRIPTS AND IMAGES
Of mainly historical interest: an earlier incarnation of this site, Mrs. Spectator’s Coffeehouse (archived).

UNB students: don’t forget the very useful UNB Libraries: English Guides

This page:
General
Language
Individual authors/titles
Organizations
Poetry
Prose/fiction
Theatre
Weblogs

General:

• The 18th-Century Common: “a public space for sharing the research of scholars who study eighteenth-century cultures with nonacademic readers”
• 18thConnect: eighteenth-century scholarship online: “search portal, on-line community, peer-reviewing organization, crowed-sourced correction”
• Paula R. Backscheider has c18th, feminist, and electronic resources
• The Bluestocking Archive (public access)
• British History Sources, 1500-1900: “Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain”
• C18-L: resources (public access)
• Resources for Eighteenth-Century Research: Chawton MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southampton (public access)
• Defining Gender: “original British source material” 1450–1910 (proprietary, UNB login)
• The Dictionary of Sensibility
• Digital Panopticon: Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925
• Early English Books Online (EEBO): digital facsimiles of every work printed in English from 1473-1700 (UNB login)
• Early Modern Resources: “a research portal for the early modern period” (c.1500-1800 CE) Sharon Howard’s site. Highly recommended. (public access)
• Eight­eenth-Cen­tu­ry Book Track­er: “in­dex­ing free­ly-a­vail­a­ble dig­i­tal fac­sim­iles of eight­eenth-cen­tury texts and cross-ref­er­enc­ing them to stand­ard bib­li­og­raph­i­cal ref­er­ence sources”
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (UNB login)
• Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (public access): excellent links
• Eighteenth-Century Resources, Jack Lynch, Rutgers – Newark: see Literature, in particular, and Eighteenth-Century E-Texts. Highly recommended. (public access)
• Electronic Enlightenment: “letters & lives online” (Bodleian/Oxford)
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project: Early Modern through the 18th Century
• European History Primary Sources (EHPS)
• Georgian Papers Online: “descriptions and digitised images of material dating from the reigns of George I to William IV”
• Grub Street Project: “a digital edition of eighteenth-century London. By mapping its print culture, literature, and trades, it aims to create both a historically accurate visualization of the city’s commerce and communications, and a record of how its authors and artists portrayed it.”
• Historical Outline of Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, Alok Yadav, George Mason University
• Internet Library of Early Journals (public access)
• Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London
• Literature Criticism Online, including Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (proprietary resource; UNB login)
• Literature Online: “texts of over 355,000 literary works [plus] criticism and reference resources” (UNB login)
• Locating London’s Past: “This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque’s 1746 map.”
• London Lives, 1690–1800: “a fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts”
• Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature (public access)
• Map of Early Modern London
• Mapping the Republic of Letters: “interactive visualization tools … a repository for metadata on early-modern scholarship”
• Mediate: “Understanding the real bestsellers of the 18th century”
• Memorial U: Primary Sources: Early Modern Britain – 15th to 18th Century
• Michigan State University has a good page of links to online resources (public access)
• The Mind is a Metaphor: “an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics,” Brad Pasanek
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (UNB login)
• The Open Anthology of Literature in English: “reliable, edited texts for classroom use … 1650-1800 … a transatlantic anthology”
• Oxford Text Archive: “digital resources for research and teaching” (mix of open and restricted items)
• Past Masters: full text humanities (proprietary: UNB login)
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London’s central criminal court, 1674–1913
• Renascence Editions: “works printed in English, 1477-1799,” University of Oregon
• Romantic London: ” life and culture in London around the turn of the nineteenth century using Richard Horwood’s pioneering PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER the Borough of SOUTHWARK, and PARTS adjoining Shewing every HOUSE (1792–1799)”
• Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford (RECSO), including resources
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (proprietary: UNB login)
• South Seas: “voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific (1760–1800)
• Victoria Research Web: later period but many pertinent links
• Voice of the Shuttle: Restoration and Eighteenth-century English Literature (archived) (public access)
• Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO)
• Working Class Movement Library (WCML)
• Yale U British Eighteenth-Century Studies Electronic Resources: extensive links, some publicly available and others proprietary (some of these may be available on the UNB network)
• University of York Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies: online resources

Language:

• 18th Century Ligatures and Fonts, David Manthey
• Canting Dictionary
• A Guide to Eighteenth-Century English Vocabulary, Jack Lynch: “a quick- and-dirty guide” for students

Individual authors/titles:

• Digital Cavendish Project, Shawn W. Moore: “digital research, image archives, scholarly projects, and teaching materials/resources that focus on … Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)”
• DigitalDonne: The Online Variorum
• Anne Finch Digital Archive, Jennifer Keith
• Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List: “identifies 2,362 anonymous or pseudonymous authors of 25,585 letters, articles, reviews, poems, and other items in Georgian England’s greatest magazine” (open access)
• The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 – 1800: “an electronic database of titles, authors, and first lines”
• The Grub Street Project: The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
• The Site for Research on William Hogarth (1697-1764): “biographies, books, essays, images”
• The Lady’s Magazine: “understanding the emergence of a genre,” including index, U of Kent
• Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestocking Circle: “Our goal is to prepare a fully annotated electronic edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence.”
• The Collected Letters of Hannah More, U of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys: “Daily entries from the 17th century London diary” (open access)
• What Jane Saw: the Sir Joshua Reynolds retrospective, 1813; the Shakespeare Gallery, 1796
• Sheffield: Print, Protest and Poetry, 1790-1810: “on-going digital anthology of poems first printed in The Sheffield Register (1787-1794) and The Sheffield Iris (1794-1825)”
• A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Francis Grose. London, 1796.

Organizations:

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (and see Lumen, annual publication of CSECS, available online)
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
• International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Poetry:

• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832, University of California at Davis
• Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (public access), including excellent links
• Electronic Poetry Center
• English Poetry, Second Edition (proprietary: UNB login)
• Representative Poetry Online (RPO): University of Toronto

Prose/fiction:

• At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
• British Fiction, 1800–1829: “a database of production, circulation, and reception” (public access)
• British Library: the novel 1780–1832; the novel 1832–1880
• The Early Novels Database: “Slow metadata for old novels… high-quality metadata about novels published between 1660 and 1850”
• The Novel in Europe 1670–1730
• Novels Reviewed Database, 1790-1820: “book reviews from The Critical Review and The Monthly Review published from January 1790 to December 1820″ (open access)
• Restoration Printed Fiction: “a comprehensive & searchable database of fiction printed 1660-1700”
• Romantic Prose Fiction, a volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series: Bibliography

Theatre:

• Axson Digital Archive: “a collection of 62 digitized books drawn from the Stockton Axson Collection of 18th-Century British Drama,”
• Ballad Operas Online
• Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (UNB login)
• DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks: “a search engine of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660”
• Early Modern British Theater Access: “multimedia resources relating to the history of British theater and dramatic literature during the period 1500-1800” including links
• Early Modern London Theatres
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Harvard Theatre Collection
• The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period.
• Portraits of Actors, 1720-1920: “almost 3,500 pictures of actors … from the University of Illinois Theatrical Print Collection”
• Queen’s Men Editions (U of Victoria)
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research: journal
• Theatre Database: 18th Century
• Theatre History on the Web: Resources for the 18th Century
• Victoria and Albert: Theatre and Performance: 17th-Century Theatre, 18th-Century Opera, 18th-Century Theatre, Elizabethan Theatre, A History of a Night at the Theatre

Weblogs:

• Jane Austen’s World, including excellent links
• cradledincaricature: “some thoughts on digital history, cartoons, and satire”
• The Early Modern Commons: “an aggregator for blogs covering the period c.1500-1800″
• Early Modern Online Bibliography: “the humanities and digital scholarship”
• Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction: “images from Research Collections at Mills Library, McMaster University, and from the files of the McMaster journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction; along with the occasional reblogged Tumblr post on eighteenth-century material culture.”
• emroc: early modern recipes online collective
• Everything Early Modern Women
• The Long Eighteenth: excellent blog, with excellent links
• The New Newgate Calendar: “Blogs about the history of crime, justice and punishment”
• A Parcel of Ribbons: “eighteenth-century Jamaica viewed through family stories and documents”
• The Printshop Window: “Caricature & graphic satire in the long eighteenth-century”
• Siris: Seiren chruseien ex ouranothen kremasantes
• Women’s History Carnival: “recent blogging about women’s and gender history”
• Wynken de Worde: “books, early modern culture, post-modern readers.” And excellent, comprehensive resources.

[Linking image on main page: The Lady’s Magazine, frontispiece and first page, August 1770]