Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature

Individual electronic texts apeear in a separate index. All English authors are listed by name after several general resources; afterwards come discussions of theatre, the Gothic, Romanticism, and women writers.

Literature

General Pages

• I now have an up-to-date and nearly comprehensive list of E-texts available on the Internet.
• The Voice of the Shuttle, especially the pages on the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and Romantics, is by far the best collection of links.
• Eighteenth-Century Studies (Geoff Sauer, CMU) -- Alphabetical metapage of 18th-c. resources; incomplete, and has not been updated in a long time.
• 18th Century (general page at Teleport.com) -- A few dozen links.
• Eighteenth Century Home Page (UVM) -- A fledgling meta-page with little on it right now. Most useful are the bibliographies of print resources (Children, Clothing, Cooking, Embroidery, Entertainment, Forts, General, Journals, Metal Working, Music, Native Americans, Ships, Technology, Textiles, Weapons, and Women).
• 18th-Century English Novel Research Guide (WVU) -- A good collection of electronic and print resources useful in research on the novel. Links to Web resources are good but not complete.
• Toronto's Representative Poetry database (see the index by dates) -- Well-edited electronic texts.
• The BCMSV (Univ. of Leeds) -- A searchable database of 17th- and 18th-century English verse.
• Hypertext editions of English Poetry 1780-1910 at Virginia -- Very well edited, although the catalogue is very small now.
• A Dictionary of Sensibility (McGann and Spacks, Virginia) -- Class project from a course on "The Novel of Sensibility." Includes primary and secondary bibliographies along with short essays serving to define terms such as "benevolence," "character," "virtue," "sense," and "imagination." Attractive but graphics-heavy.
• Ffugiadau Llenyddol / Litterære Falsknerier / Literary Forgeries (Johan Schimanski) -- Bibliographies, biographies, essays, and links on a few forgers at the end of the eighteenth century, including Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams) and Macpherson. With a handy chronological table of forgers around 1800. In Norwegian, Welsh (!), and English.
• Periodicals:
  • Attributions of Authorship in The Gentleman's Magazine (Emily Lorraine de Montluzin; Studies in Bibliography) -- Three searchable databases: "An electronic version of James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of the Gentleman's Magazine," "Attributions of authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868: A Supplement to Kuist," and "A synthesis of finds appearing neither in Kuist's Nichols File nor in de Montluzin's A Supplement to Kuist."
  • The Quarterly Review Project (Ireland) -- Abstracts of all the articles in the QR from 1809 to 1824.
• Bibliographies:
  • Three places are best to start:
    • c18 Bibliographies On-Line -- A growing series of annotated bibliographies on eighteenth-century authors contributed by specialists, providing guidance on standard editions, bibliographies, biographies, and criticism.
    • The monthly Selected Readings (Kevin Berland, PSU) covers recent research in all eighteenth-century areas.
    • XVIIIe siècle: bibliographie (Benoît Melançon, Univ. of Montreal) -- A superb current bibliography of mostly secondary sources on French literature.
  • Annotated Bibliography on Augustan Satire (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- Coverage of the most important general accounts of satire in the last half century and some of the most influential treatments of the two most important early eighteenth-century satirists, Pope and Swift, especially since the late sixties.
  • Theorizing Satire -- A Bibliography (Brian A. Connery) -- Connery notes that his bibliography "is not intended to be exhaustive and does not pretend to be objective. I've tried to include works which offer general insight into the nature and dynamics of satire, or its tropes and strategies, or which offer an example of the application to satire of a theory of reading or interpretation." Sports several hundred entries, not yet annotated.
  • Bibliography on 18th-c. English Studies (Carole Meyers, Emory) -- A list of (mostly) secondary sources on 18th-c. studies. The works listed are useful, but the selection principle is not clear. Not annotated.
  • Women and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Martin Maner, Wright State Univ.) -- A helpful bibliography of bibliographies, anthologies, journals, and reference sources on 18th-c. English women.
  • Printed Sources of the 1990s for 18th-C. Studies Part 2: Recent Studies (and Editions) of Women Writers, Readers, and Publishers (James E. May, Penn State -- DuBois) -- Very extensive and scholarly bibliography of recent scholarship on 18th-c. women. Headnote and some brief annotations.
  • Printed Sources of the 1990s for 18th-C. Studies, Part 3: Recent Studies in 18th-C. Children's Literature (James E. May, Penn State) -- Extensive annotated bibliography on children's books. Very useful.
  • Bibliography of Works on Romantic Drama and British Women Playwrights (from British Women Playwrights around 1800) -- Long enumerative bibliography of scholarship. No annotations.
  • Bibliography of Regency Romances (Catherine Decker, UCR) -- Publication information on several hundred recent romance novels set in the Regency.

British Authors

• Jane Austen:
  • Jane Austen Info Page (Henry Churchyard) -- The most extensive Auten page on the Web, including texts (many with rudimentary annotations), a biographical sketch, a few images, a selected bibliography, as well as some jokes and other jeux d'esprit.
  • American Society of Jane Austen Scholars (Univ. of Georgia and Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater) -- Includes the on-line journal Austen Quarterly (in fact semi-annual) and links to other Austen resources.
  • Jane Austen Society of North America -- An extensive site on Austen for both scholars and Janeites. Includes the on-line journal Persuasions.
  • Jane Austen Page (James Dawe) -- A page of links to other resources, along with a discussion of recent Austen films.
  • Guide to the Jane Austen Collection, Goucher College -- A list of items in the extensive collection at Goucher College.
  • The Jane Austen Homepage (Geocities) -- A fan page, more popular than scholarly. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
  • The Jane Austen Bulletin Board -- A Web-based discussion group; minimal traffic, and little of it scholarly. Mostly students looking for someone to do their homework.
  • Jane Austen Page (in German) -- Aimed at readers of romance novels.
  • Calendars for Jane Austen's Novels (Ellen Moody, GMU) -- Handy and extensive chronologies to the novels.
• Joanna Baillie:
  • Joanna Baillie (Guy White, Univ. of Windsor) -- A well organized collection of links, with a biography, bibliography, electronic texts, and images.
  • Joanna Baillie: An Annotated Bibliography (Ken Bugajski, Romanticism on the Net) -- A very extensive annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Very impressive.
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld:
  • The Anna Laetitia Barbauld Web Site (Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri, Univ. of Saskatchewan) -- Hypertext editions of Barbauld's poetry and prose, with a chronology and several works of criticism from the eighteenth century to the present. Requires frames.
  • Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) (CMU) -- A brief but intelligent biography, with selections from her works and a bibliography of primary texts.
• William Beckford:
  • The Beckford Project (Kevin Berland, Penn State) -- Beckford links and a description of the project to catalogue his massive library.
  • The William Beckford Website (Dick Claésson, Göteborg University) -- An impressive site on Beckford, including biographical and critical information, links, and facsimiles of several of his works. Everything, including the site's text, is done as graphics; pages load slowly and are unavailable to those with plain-text browsers.
• Aphra Behn:
  • Annotated Bibliography on Oroonoko (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- Covers mostly articles since 1985.
  • The Aphra Behn Society Homepage (Emory) -- Information on the Society and newsletters.
  • The Aphra Behn Page (Ruth Nestvold) -- Chronology, links, E-texts, and original essays.
  • The Incomparable Astrea: An Introduction to Aphra Behn (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik, Univ. of Texas) -- A rudimentary introduction to Behn's life and work; includes a short bibliography and Web links.
• William Blake:
  • The Blake Archive (Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi; Virginia) -- The most important (and impressive) Blake resource on the Web. Superb reproductions of Blake's engravings and careful transcriptions of his text, with new works and copies of works added regularly. O si sic omnes!
  • The Digital Blake Project (Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Georgia) -- A graphics-intensive hypertext edition of the Songs, along with the complete Erdman text of Blake's poems.
  • Blake eE Concordance -- Concordance to the on-line Erdman edition of Blake.
  • William Blake: A Critical Essay
  • The Blake Multimedia Project (Steve Marx, CalPoly) -- Limited demonstration of "a hypertext interactive edition that displays the plates on a monitor or projects them on a screen. It allows the user to call up glossaries, critical intepretations, explications and magnifications of details, comparisons to other plates, and teaching exercises in print and audio modes."
  • Blake Online Archive (Seth Ross, AlbionBooks) -- Web archive of "an electronic conference & mailing list dedicated to the life & work of William Blake."
  • Blake Web (David W. Downie, Univ. of Nebraska) -- Part of an MA thesis on Blake, including a short biogrpahy, links to the works, and many color facsimiles of the plates (provenance is not identified). Heavy on graphics and music; requires frames.
  • Blake Page (Richard Record) -- A big collection of electronic texts and color graphics of the plates (the source of the plates is not identified).
  • Blake's "The Four Zoas" Fetishized: An Experimental Hypertext (Bill Ruegg, Florida) -- Let's italicize experimental.
  • Blake Timeline (Charles Beauvais, Conn. College) -- A handy year-by-year chronology of Blake's life.
  • The Tyger Page (Randall Hughes) -- A Web study of Blake's "The Tyger." Mostly links to other Blake resources. Requires a frames-compatible browser.
  • Annotated bibliographies:
    • "Infant Joy"
    • "The Blossom"
    • The Tyger
    • "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
• James Boswell:
  • Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell -- Information on the editorial project at Yale.
  • James Boswell page (Chris Whiley, Geocities) -- Includes a short biography and a shorter bibliography of primary sources, along with links to many bits of Boswelliana on the Net. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
  • The Sons of Ayrshire (Tom Kinsella, Stockton State) -- Brief hypertext guide to Boswell and Burns.
  • Guide to Boswell and Burns (OGI) -- Backgrounds, commentaries, and texts of two short pieces by Boswell and two by Burns.
• John Bunyan:
  • International John Bunyan Society -- Information relating mostly to the society (as opposed to Bunyan himself), with information on forthcoming conferences.
• Frances Burney:
  • Frances Fanny Burney d'Arblay (Barbara Darby, Dalhousie) -- A brief chronology, extensive bibliographies, critical resources, and links.
  • Cecilia by Frances Burney: A Study Guide (Cathy Decker, UCR) -- Brief bibliography, guide to characters, and discussion questions.
• Robert Burns:
  • The Sons of Ayrshire (Tom Kinsella, Stockton State) -- Brief hypertext guide to Boswell and Burns.
  • Guide to Boswell and Burns (OGI) -- Backgrounds, commentaries, and texts of two short pieces by Boswell and two by Burns.
  • The Song Tradition of Robert Burns (Thomas Jeon, Virginia) -- Project for an MA thesis. Includes contextual information, background on Burns's collections of songs, several texts, audio files, anda bibliography. Well done.
• George Gordon, Lord Byron:
  • The Lord Byron HomePage (John W. Leys) -- E-texts, chronology, bibliography, filmography, portraits, links, and chat areas.
• Thomas Chatterton:
  • Thomas Chatterton -- Includes short biography, Chatterton's will, and several of his works.
• Chesterfield:
  • Chesterfield Papers Project (Chapman) -- Web site to accompany the publishing project for Chesterfield's papers.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • S. T. Coleridge Home Page (Virginia) -- An important and extensive archive, mostly of primary texts, but also with chronologies, recommended reading, a glossary, &c.
• George Colman the Elder:
  • George Colman the Younger (William Burling, Southwest Missouri State, and Martin Wood, Univ. of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire) -- Overview of Colman's works, with biography, a bibliography, catalogue of correspondence, and a portrait.
• Abraham Cowley:
  • The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive (Daniel Kinney, Virginia) -- "This archive has been gathered to illuminate Cowley's engagements with various registers of visual imagery and with the complex material culture it did, and still does, much to shape." Centered on the Plantarum libri sex. Two complete texts and dozens of relevant page images -- some from Cowley's works, others from books and paintings that may have influenced or inspired Cowley.
• William Cowper:
  • Cowper/Newton Museum, Olney
• Daniel Defoe:
  • Bibliography of Daniel Defoe's Works -- Table with brief commentary in Japanese.
  • The Friday Site -- A guide to teaching Robinson Crusoe from Friday's persepective.
• Mary Delany:
  • Mary Delany Home Page (Alain Kerhervé, Geocities) -- A brief site, in French, on Kerhervé's research on Delany, with a few links to other sites. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
• Maria Edgeworth:
  • English Men of Letters: Maria Edgeworth (1905) -- Text of the early study by Emily Lawless.
• Olaudah Equiano:
  • The Equiano Foundation -- Brief biography and information on the Foundation.
  • Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) (Angelo Costanzo) -- Notes on teaching the Narrative in the context of American literature.
• Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea:
  • I On Myself Can Live: An Unfinished Study of Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (Ellen Moody, GMU) -- Opening chapters of an in-progress biographical study.
  • Chronology of Ann Finch's Poems (Ellen Moody, GMU) -- Short timeline of Finch's life with notes on the poems.
  • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (CMU) -- Short biography and primary bibliography, with links to some poems on-line.
• William Godwin:
  • Godwin Graphics (Pitzer's Anarchist Archives) -- Nine engravings of Godwin and Wollstonecraft.
• Samuel Hartlib:
  • The Hartlib Papers Project (Sheffield) -- A large and very scholarly collection of materials related to the seventeenth-century polymath. A complete collection of the papers, stretching to 20 million words, is available on CD-ROM.
• William Hazlitt:
  • William Hazlitt (Peter Landry) -- Quotations and a the texts of a few essays. Unscholarly but well done.
• Felicia Hemans:
  • Hemans Bibliography (Melissa Jo Sites, Univ. of Maryland) -- Bibliography of secondary material, with links to E-texts.
  • Felicia Hemans (Celebration of Women Writers, CMU) -- Short biography and primary bibliography, with links to some poems on-line.
  • Chronology of Felicia Hemans and Her Circle (Nanora Sweet, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis)
• William Hone:
  • William Hone Bibliographies (Kyle Grimes, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham) -- "William Hone (1780-1842) was a prominent radical writer, parodist, antiquarian and publisher during the early decades of the nineteenth century." The site consists of several bibliographies of primary and secondary works.
• Samuel Johnson:
  • Samuel Johnson Page (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- An index of Web pages on Johnson, including a comprehensive bibliography of recent scholarship.
  • A Guide to Samuel Johnson (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- My own introduction to Johnson's life and works; includes annotated bibliographies.
  • Johnsonian Bibliography, 1985-1998 (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • Johnson Society of Australia
  • The Johnson Society of London
  • The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page (Frank Lynch)
  • Doctor Johnson's Page (mostly quotations; SFSU)
  • Dr Johnson's House (Gough Square) -- An illustrated guide to the house in London. Requires frames.
  • Samuel Johnson's "Shakespeare" (Clark Holloway) -- Selected annotations from Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, with an introduction by Holloway and links to other relevant E-texts.
• John Keats:
  • The Keats-Shelley Journal -- Edited by Steven Jones. Information on the journal (not available on-line), with events announcements and links to other Keats and Shelley resources.
  • Keats-Shelley Journal Bibliography
  • Exhibitions: Keats (British Library) -- Very brief snippets on Keats's life and works, with audio files of Sally Brown reading several poems.
  • Keats and Shelley House, Rome -- Attractive, but of more use to tourists visiting the house than to scholars. Graphics-heavy, and requires frames.
• Anne Killigrew:
  • Anne Killigrew (CMU) -- Brief biography.
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (LEL):
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Page (Glenn Dibert-Himes, Sheffield-Hallam Univ.) -- An extensive collection of material on LEL, including a biographical sketch, critical essays, a few texts, and a large bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
• Charlotte Ramsay Lennox:
  • Charlotte Ramsay Lennox (Devoney Looser, Wisconsin -- Whitewater, and George Justice, Marquette) -- Biographical sketch and bibliographies of primary works, early reviews, and recent scholarship. Well done.
• James Macpherson:
  • James Macpherson & the Poetry of Ossian (William Finley) -- Includes chronology, list of works, and an overview of the Ossianic controversy.
• Bernard Mandeville:
  • The Mandeville Symposium (Queens Univ., Canada) -- Very little information on the 1997 conference.
• Milton (more Renaissance than eighteenth-century, but what are ya gonna do?):
  • The Milton-L Home Page -- A site to support Kevin Creamer's excellent mailing list. Includes chronologies, E-texts, book reviews, events, &c.
  • Milton Review (also by Creamer) -- on-line review of Milton studies.
  • John Milton Reading Room (Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth) -- Good, reliable E-texts of Milton's works, some with commentary and textual variants, along with a Selected Bibliography of Criticism, 1987-1996.
  • Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources (R. G. Siemens, Univ. of Alberta) -- iEMLS reproduces Siemens's extensive bibliography, with useful commentary, from The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd ed. Over 300 items. Mighty impressive.
• Thomas Love Peacock:
  • Thomas Love Peacock Society -- A great many E-texts of Peacock's novels and poetry, a complete list of works, biographical and critical excerpts, a chat group, and links. Very extensive.
• Samuel Pepys:
  • The Pepys Page (EdWeb, UK) -- Very brief and cursory discussion of Pepys, with extracts from the diary. More on his association with Hinchingbrooke School, which hosts the page.
• Katherine Philips ("Orinda"):
  • Poetry of Katherine Fowler Philips (www.sappho.com) -- Very brief discussion of her life and several poems.
• Alexander Pope:
  • The Rape of the Lock Home Page (S. Constantine, Univ. of Massachusetts) -- Brief biography of Pope, background on the Rape, Pope chronology, and a sparsely annotated E-text of the poem.
  • Alexander Pope's Homepage: Your Connection to 18th Century Literature, Travel, and Suicide Prevention (Geocities) -- Chatty page providing portraits and a few works for Pope, Behn, Cibber, Gay, Dryden, Hogarth, and Swift. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
  • Engraving from Pope's Rape of the Lock (Jeffrey Barr, Univ. of Florida) -- Images from two editions of The Rape, which can be compared in frames.
• Ann Radcliffe:
  • The Life of Ann Radcliffe (Rictor Norton) -- Synopsis of Mistress of Udolpho, the first full-scale biography of Radcliffe.
• Mary Darby Robinson:
  • Mary Darby Robinson (Mary Mark, CMU) -- Biography, illustrations, selected works, parimary bibliography.
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
  • John Wilmot -- Earl of Rochester (Mark Ynys-Mon) -- Several poems and a brief biographical sketch.
  • The Chapel Perilous: Poems of the Earl of Rochester -- Texts of several poems.
  • The Earl of Rochester -- Very brief biography, list of available editions, and selected poems.
• Ignatius Sancho:
  • Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters (Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London) -- Jekyll's life, an annotated bibliography, selections from Sancho's letters, and links, with more to come. Very impressive.
  • Ignatius Sancho: A Bibliography (Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London) -- Extensive and annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works.
• Shaftesbury:
  • The Third Earl of Shaftesbury Bibliography (Laurent Jaffro, UFR) -- An extensive but unannotated secondary bibliography on Shaftesbury. Text is in French; the cited items are in English, French, German, and Italian. Very scholarly.
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site (Shanon Lawson, Delaware; Romantic Circles) -- Thorough and accurate timeline, along with the texts of early reviews and a short secondary bibliography.
  • Making Monsters: A Web Site Devoted to Mary Shelley and Her Novel Frankenstein (Cynthia Hamberg) -- E-text, biography, links, and brief notes on contexts.
  • Hail Mary Shelley for her Frankenstein exercise of mind -- An unscholarly reading of the novel.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  • The Keats-Shelley Journal -- Edited by Steven Jones. Information on the journal (not available on-line), with events announcements and links to other Keats and Shelley resources.
  • Keats-Shelley Journal Bibliography
  • Keats and Shelley House, Rome (requires frames) -- Attractive, but of more use to tourists visiting the house than to scholars. Graphics-heavy, and requires frames.
• Sir Walter Scott:
  • Waverley Hypertext Homepage (Andre Monnickendam) -- Hypertext edition of Scott's Waverley, including commentary and contexts. Useful summaries of the views of major critics.
• Laurence Sterne:
  • Annotated Bibliography of Criticism on Tristram Shandy (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) -- Comments on selected scholarly publications, mostly since 1978.
  • The Shandean -- Information on the print journal, with tables of contents.
  • Vienna Web -- Laurence Sterne is at the center of the University of Vienna's off-the-wall philosophy Web site.
  • Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace (Masaru Uchida, Gifu Univ., Japan) -- Electronic texts (including hypertexts), bibliographies, and miscellaneous essays.
  • Uncle Toby's Bowling Green -- "A website in honor of one of the greatest characters in English literature, Toby Shandy." Includes an audio file of "Lillabullero." A few quotations, but little else.
• Robert Louis Stevenson:
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Page (Richard Dury, Univ. of Bergamo, Italy) -- Extensive and well-organized collection of material, including biographies, primary and secondary bibliographies, a filmography, events, associations, images, &c.
• Jonathan Swift:
  • Gulliver's Travels Chronology -- A big timeline of things related to Swift and Gulliver.
  • Charles Read's biography of Jonathan Swift (from The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 1880)
  • Ehrenpreis Institut für Swift Studien (Münster) -- Information (in German) on the Institute.
• William Wordsworth:
  • Lyrical Ballads Hypertext Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) -- In-progress scholarly hypertext edition showing the various states of the poems in Lyrical Ballads. Requires frames.
  • Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Ron Tetreault and Bruce Graver, Dalhousie) -- Several of Wordsworth's poems in page images, diplomatic transcriptions, and elaborate hypertext collations. Very impressive. Requires frames.
  • Wordsworth Variorum Archive (James M. Garrett, USC) -- In-progress edition of Wordsworth's poetry, showing the variants from all a number of editions. Requires frames.
  • History of Composition and Select Bibliography of The Prelude (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- Background information, bibliographies for several of the books of the Prelude, and transcriptions of the most important passages in the poem.
  • TCG's Wordsworth Page (USD) -- Quotations, links, and a few transcriptions. Bad color scheme makes it hard to read.
  • The Wordsworth Trust, Centre for British Romanticism -- Information on the Trust and Dove Cottage.

Theatre and Drama

• The World of London Theater, 1660-1800 (Patricia Craddock, Florida) -- A general view of 18th-c. theatre, asseembled by Craddock and her students. Includes biographies, commentary on works, illustrations, chronologies, bibliographies, a map of London, &c. A work-in-progress.
• Restoration Drama Homepage (S. Morgan, BGSU) -- Biographical sketches and portraits of Behn, Dryden, Etherege, Otway, Rochester, Shadwell, Vanbrugh, and Wycherley, with a few short essays on the backgrounds to Restoration theatre.
• Women Playwrights around 1800 (Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Stanford) -- An extensive and scholarly archive of Romantic women dramatists, including E-texts, bibliographies, and original essays. Requires frames.

The Gothic

• The Gothic: Materials for Study (McGann and Spacks, Virginia) -- One of two class projects from a course called "The Novel of Sensibility." Discussions of Gothic psychology, female Gothic, the supernatural, and Gothic drama. Includes an annotated bibliography of several dozen secondary items, most published since the seventies.
• The Literary Gothic Page -- "A Web site for all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related Gothic, supernaturalist, and 'weird' literature prior to the mid-twentieth century." Includes links to other Gothic sites, reviews of books on the Gothic, and a great many links to E-texts. Extensive, but not always scholarly.
• Gothic Literature (AOL) -- "The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature which flourished in England from 1764 to 1820. This site is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web. An introduction to the Gothic novel, collected summaries, papers, critical and bibliographical information and related sites are assembled together to expedite research." Organization is haphazard, and the backgrounds sometimes make the text hard to read.
• Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read (Douglass Thomson, Georgia Southern Univ.) -- "A list of Gothic works read by the major writers of the period 1780-1830." Gothic reading lists for Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with evidence that the authors read the books in question.
• The Sickly Taper (Fred Frank, Allegheny College) -- Primary and secondary bibliographies on the Gothic, with links to other Web sites. Not strictly 18th-c.

Romanticism

• Romantic Circles (Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer)-- The most important Romanticism resource on the Web. Features newly edited electronic texts, conference and publication announcements, and many other scholarly resources. O si sic omnes!
• Romanticism On the Net: A Peer-Reviewed, Electronic Journal Devoted to Romantic Studies (Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Oxford), including the Conferences Page -- Another excellent Romanticism resource.
• Romanticism URL List (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- A list of major Romanticism sites on the Web, with commentary on a few of them.
• Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts (Michael Gamer, Penn) -- Another large list of links.
• The Romantics Page (Univ. of New Mexico) -- Another link page, this one including a section on American Romanticism (Dickinson, Emerson, Whitman).
• A Select Romanticism Bibliography (Nicholas Halmi, McMaster) -- A very handy annotated bibliography of editions, biographies, and important criticism on major Romantic figures: Burke, Barbauld, Smith, Blake, Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, de Quincey, Peacock, Byron, P.B. Shelley, Hemans, Keats, and Mary Shelley. The overviews of Romanticism are also useful.
• Romanticism: Selective Bibliography (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ. Chicago) -- A useful (but unannotated) bibliography of editions, biographies, and critical studies of Romantic topics and writers: Blake, Burney, Byron, Coleridge, Dacre, Hays, Hemans, Keats, Landon, Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth. The recommendations on overviews of Romanticism and topics such as the novel, women, the Gothic, and sensibility are especially extensive.
• Anthologies and Miscellanies on 18th-c. and Romantic Literature (Laura Mandell and Rita Raley) -- Tables of contents and sometimes introductions and prefaces from anthologies of 18th- and 19th-c. literature from the early 18th century to the present. Useful both for current pedagogical purposes (in comparing in-print anthologies) and for offering a historical view of the canon.
• Canon and Web: MLA '96 -- A collection of papers and presentations from 1996's MLA session on the Romantic canon and the Web. Edited by Alan Liu, with contributions by Laura Mandell, Joseph Viscomi, Jack Lynch, and Elizabeth Fay, and responses by Michael Gamer, Mori Saffran, and Steven E. Jones.
• Fictional Representations of Romantics and Romanticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Romantic Circles) -- "This bibliography lists items (books, plays, films, etc.) that represent historical Romantic figures in fictional contexts." Several dozen works, some with brief annotations.
• Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- "an annotated list of critical and theoretical works about the activity of canonizing as it arose during the Romantic Era, and about the concept of "literary period" that arose with it."
• The Romantic Chronology (UCSB) -- An extensive timeline of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, now with extensive search capabilities. O si sic omnes!
• Romanticism: CD-ROM (David S. Miall and Duncan Wu) -- An overview of the CD-ROM to accompany Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1994). Includes downloadable samples (for PCs only).
• Romantics Unbound: A Hypertextual Learning Space (David S. Hogsette, NYIT) -- "Romantics Unbound is my attempt to connect teachers and students to the wealth of Romanticism material available on the Internet." Includes pages on Romatnic writers, artists, musicians, and the Gothic. Requires frames.
• New Books in Nineteenth-Century British Studies (USC) -- Announcements and selected reviews of books in Romantic and Victorian studies since 1995. "Our goal is to be a comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain. Therefore, we have chosen to define the period broadly in the interests of inclusivity."
• Romantic Passions: A Hypertext Collection of Theory and Criticism (Elizabeth Fay; Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Law (Romantic Circles) -- Scholarly hypertext essay collection, edited by Michael Macovski.
• Romantische Anthropologie (Uli Wunderlich and Adam Lawrence) -- Guide to Romantic-era anthropology, with profiles of Autenrieth, Baader, Brandis, Burdach, Carus, Doellinger, Ennemoser, Goerres, Heinroth, Ideler, Kieser, Leupoldt, Nasse, Oken, Schubert, Steffens, Troxler, and Windischmann, with more to come. Biographies, bibliographies, and some illustrations -- all very impressive. In German and English.
• Romantic Prose Fiction (Uwe Spoerl) -- Overview of an in-progress volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series, with useful bibliographies and links on Romantic prose across Europe. Admirably comparative.
• Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text -- Information on the Edition Corvey and a collection of original articles on Romantic topics.

Women Writers

• The Other Eighteenth Century: Women's Poetry and the Canon (Patricia Craddock, Univ. of Florida) -- A course page, with links and original materials for many women poets, including Behn, Montagu, Carter, Leapor, Mulso (Chapone), Lennox, Baillie, and Robinson.
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (BWRP) (Nancy Kushigan) -- A library of electronic texts edited from originals in the Shields Library, Univ. of California, Davis. Texts are in SGML.
• Works by Women and Anonymous Writers, 1770-1830, in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania (Judith Pascoe, Univ. of Iowa) -- A useful index of late-century and Romantic women authors in one of the best collections of fiction of the period.
• British Women's Novels (Cathy Decker, UCR) -- Brief annotated guide to some important late-century and Romantic novels by women.
• The Bluestocking Archive (Elizabeth Fay, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston) -- "This archive assumes a deep relation between the intellectual and social movement of the Bluestockings, the culture and cult of Sensibility and High Romanticism. It is an archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings' concerns with aesthetics, and with women's aesthetic achievements."
• Women Romantic Writers (A. Craciun, Loyola Univ., Chicago) -- Catalogue of electronic texts, cultural and visual resources, and relevant Web sites.
• Women of the Romantic Period (Texas) -- "This interactive hypertext uses Richard Polwhele's poem 'The Unsex'd Females' to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the British Romantic Period's foremost female contributors." Heavily glossed text of Polwhele's poem, with biographical material on the women mentioned in it.
• Corvey Women Writers on the Web (Sheffield-Hallam) -- The goal is "to make fully searchable, peer-reviewed research available to all interested academics, scholars and researchers. ... Focuses on the 1,065 English belles-lettres titles -- around 3,000 volumes -- by women authors," 1796-1834. Now just bibliographical information, no full-text. Still, very extensive, very scholarly.

French Literature

• ARTFL Project (Chicago) -- The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Franaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago. A database of nearly 2,000 texts available to subscribers only, and a great many other resources on French literature.
• Navigating 18th Century Knowledge: Implementing a Multi-Media Edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie (Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project) -- A discussion of the massive encoding effort.
• La Litterature française du XVIIIe siècle (UTM) -- A big collection of (unannotated) links.
• Textes et études en français -- Confessions de Rousseau, Châtiments de Hugo, Spleen de Paris de Baudelaire, Sonnet, Maupassant, and others.
• La Littérature Française du XVIIIe Siècle (David A. Gatwood, UTM) -- Links (in no particular order) to 18th-c. French resources on the Web.
• Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris (Barry Russell, Oxford) -- French fairground theatre of the 17th and 18th centuryies.
• Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715 (Barry Russell) -- An in-progress catalogue of all performances -- theatre, opera, ballet -- in Louisquatorzean France. Very impressive.
• Théâtrales (André G. Bourassa, UQAM, and Barry Russell, Oxford) -- Extensive information on French theatre.
• Enlightened Discourse: 18th-Century French Writings (David Gatwood, UTM) -- A big but unannotated list of links on 18th-c. French literature.
• Pierre Bayle:
  • Pierre Bayle Home Page (Gianluca Mori, Italy) -- An extensive collection of material on Bayle in French, English, and Italian. Includes primary and secondary bibliographies, E-texts, news, and links.
• Marqis de Sade:
  • Timeline of the Marquis de Sade -- A simple chronology of the events in Sade's life.
• Mme de Graffigny:
  • Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny (J. A. Dainard, Univ. of Toronto) -- Searchable index of the Graffigny's correspondents with a bibliography.
• Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française (ARTFL Project, Chicago) -- Several editions of the Dictionnaire (in French).
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citoyen de Genève -- An introduction to Rousseau's life and works; part of Geneva Online. Not very scholarly, but the bibliographies and brief sketches are useful. In French. Requires frames.
• Voltaire:
  • Voltaire Foundation (Oxford) -- Information on the Foundation and its publications. Includes a few electronic texts and images.
  • The Voltaire Society of America (Chicago) -- Information on the Society, with a few images and news on Voltaire.
• EDICTA: Early Dictionaries/Dictionnaires Anciens (Early Dictionary Centre, Univ. of Toronto) -- Links to a number of early dictionaries in electronic form. In English and French.

German Literature

• Projekt Gutenberg -- DE -- Several hundred German E-texts in plain text form. Includes Bürger, Eichendorff, Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, Hölderlin, Herder, Kant, Klopstock, Kotzebue, Lavater, Leibniz, Lessing, Novalis, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Tieck. Requires frames.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Jane K. Brown, Univ. of Washington) -- Long encyclopedia-style biography with illustrations and a bibliography of works.
  • Goethe Page (Gonçalo L. Fonseca, Johns Hopkins) -- Links to texts in English and German, biographies, chronology, bibliographies.
  • Faust Study Questions (Paul Brian, WSU) -- Long discussion of Faust for students.
  • Goethe Page (Katharena Eiermann) -- An extensive (although not scholarly) collection of Goethe resources, including biography, interpretive essays, and selected works.
  • The Goethe-Institut -- Information on the Institute in English and German. Goethe himself is a small part of the Institute's focus on German language and culture.

Research

• Barbara Benedict, Making the Modern Reader (full text from Princeton Univ. Press)
• William C. Dowling, "The Gender Fallacy"
• Neil Fraistat, "Early Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics, and Fractals"
• Nelson Hilton, "Restless Wrestling: Johnson's Rasselas," from Lexis Complexes
• Rusell Hunt, "Modes of Reading, and Modes of Reading Swift"
• Jack Lynch, "Preventing Play: Annotating the Battle of the Books"
• Jack Lynch, "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress"
• Gregory Weight, "'No Longer What I Was in Any One Thing': Clarissa's Papers, Ecriture Feminine, and Hypertext"
• Women in/on Translation in the Eighteenth Century (panel at ASECS 1998)

Miscellaneous

• Dutch literature:
  • Jacob Campo Weyerman (1677-1747) -- General information on Weyerman in English and Dutch.
  • Arend Fokke Simonsz (1755-1812) -- Biographies and a brief essay. Parts in Dutch and English.
• Freedom of Press (Ralph McCoy, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale) -- A large annotated bibliography on censorship, including Milton's Areopagitica, Cleland's Fanny Hill, John Wilkes, Thomas Paine, and others.
• The Financial Fiction Genre (Roy Davies, Univ. of Exeter Library) -- Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
• I've collected a list of words where confusing the long s (in typography before 1800) with the letter f will result in a word that will sneak past a spelling-checker.