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Arts & Humanities : English Language & Literature : Restoration and 18th Century Literature

Core Resources

This guide lists resources that focus on British literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Be sure to see the guide to English Language and Literature for more general resources.

eBooks / Books

Databases for Articles

Databases for Restoration and 18th Century Literature
British Periodicals Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://c19index.chadwyck.com
  
British Periodicals is an index that covers important 19th-century British magazines and journals from the late 18th century to 1900. Part of C19 database. No full-text. [more]

Index to English Literary Periodicals Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.comp-index.com/english
  
Index to English Literary Periodicals is an index to articles on all subjects in English periodicals from the 1680s to the 1860s. Cover literary, science, religion, philosophy, history, economics, political science, music, art and theater as well. [more]

Journals

Journals for Restoration and 18th Century Literature
RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
  

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Other Resources Online

Other Resources Online for Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/
  

Romantic Chronology
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
  

Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
  

Books and E-Books
Luminarium Anthology of English Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/
  
Luminarium is a collection of English literary works from the Medieval through the Restoration era, with links to some basic background information.

eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Restoration and 18th Century Literature
English Short Title Catalogue
http://estc.bl.uk
  
The ESTC lists works printed ca. 1473-1800 in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States, Canada, and other territories governed by Britain, regardless of language, and works in English and other British vernaculars printed elsewhere. [more]

Books/E-books
British Drama of the Neoclassical Period, 1660-1785 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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British Drama of the Romantic Period, 1780-1837 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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British Poetry of the Neoclassical Period, 1660-1785 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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British Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1780-1837 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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British Prose of the Neoclassical Period, 1660-1785 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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British Prose of the Romantic Period, 1780-1837 Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. The complete text of nearly 150,000 English-language books from the 1700s will be made available online by 2009. [more]

Romantic Age, The CD/DVD based resource available only from within the Ellis Library.
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/databases/ellisonly.htm
  
The Romantic Age includes 18 volumes of correspondence of significant British writers of the romantic era, such as Blake, Burns, Shelley, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Samuel Wesley. See http://www.nlx.com/titles/title17.htm. CD-ROM only accessible within Ellis Library [more]

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    • If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
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