What's New in Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net
These are the most recent eighteenth-century resources I've
discovered; they'll remain here for six months. Simple
electronic texts are added to the eighteenth-century E-texts page rather
than the main eighteenth-century
page.
- 15 December 1999:
- Early
Modern Chronology (Columbia) -- Extensive timeline of
European history, 1453 to 1715.
- The
Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, History
Subsection -- Information on the print publication.
- The Belfast Newsletter
Index, 1737-1800 (John C. Greene) -- A very extensive
database index to several decades of one of the oldest
continuously published English-language newspapers. O si sic
omnes!
- H.M.S.
Bounty (Philippe Coupard) -- An unscholarly but fairly
extensive collection of information on the _Bounty_, compiled by
a hobbyist and model builder. Inlcudes a brief history and a
bibliography. In French.
- The
Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub (Steven
Earnshaw) -- Selections from a book which "looks at how inns,
taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from
Chaucer to the present day." Includes bibliographies and
extracts. Requires frames.
- American
Plantations and Colonies -- Ship Index (Thomas Langford) --
An in-progress database of ships and passenger lists for
crossings to American planations and colonies, 1538-1825.
- A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Law Library of
Congress) -- Records of American legislative bodies from the
Continental Congress in 1774 to 1873. Full text and page images
of the House Journal, the Senate Journal, the
Senate Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress,
the Journals of the Continental Congress, Elliot's
Debates, Farrand's Records, Maclay's Journal,
and Statutes at Large. Invaluable. O si sic omnes!
- Yorktown:
Then and Now (Mike Rogers) -- Unscholarly but informative
discussion of Yorktown, with many historical photographs and
discussions of various buildings.
- Benjamin Rush
and Yellow Fever (Bob Arnebeck) -- Book-length study of Rush
and the 1793 epidemic in Philadelphia.
- Words and
Deeds of Madness in 18th-C. Paris (Laurent Cartayrade) -- An
accessible collection of interdictions in legal cases over the
sanity of 18th-c. Parisians. Still sparse, but intriguing.
- EH.R:
Forum: Re-thinking 18th Century China -- Archive of a
discussion group on 18th-c. Chinese economic history. Technical
and specialized.
- 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.
- XVIIIe
siècle: bibliographie (Benoît Melançon,
Univ. of Montreal) -- A superb current bibliography of mostly
secondary sources on French literature.
- 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.
- Jane Austen Society
of North America -- An extensive site on Austen for both
scholars and Janeites. Includes the on-line journal
Persuasions.
- The Aphra Behn
Page (Ruth Nestvold) -- Chronology, links, E-texts, and
original essays.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cardiff
Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text -- Information on the
Edition Corvey and a collection of original articles on Romantic
topics.
- 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.
-
Early Canadiana Online
- Enlightened
Discourse: 18th-Century French Writings (David Gatwood, UTM)
-- A big but unannotated list of links on 18th-c. French
literature.
- Hippias: Limited
Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet (Univ. of
Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts
indexed items to only those concerning philosophy. A good place
to start on a search on these areas.
- Joseph
de Maistre Homepage (Richard LeBrun, St. Paul's College,
Univ. of Manitoba) -- "A repository of electronic texts by and
about the Counter-Enlightenment theorist and writer." Brief
biography, bibliographies, and E-texts. Impressive.
- A
Dedication to Spinoza's Insights (Joseph B. Yesselman) -- A
curious meditation on Spinoza's works, with commentaries and some
texts.
- George
Berkeley (1685-1753) (David R. Wilkins, Trinity College
Dublin) -- Biography, bibliography, original essays, and links on
Berkeley, as part of a history of mathematics archive. Very
impressive.
- The
Euler Project (Ed Sandifer, Connecticut State) -- Information
on and selections from texts by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
- Eighteenth-Century
Novel (Marquette Univ.) -- An annual refereed publication on
18th-c. prose fiction.
- Restoration:
Studies in English Literature Culture, 1660-1700 --
Information on the journal.
- Laurent
Jaffro (UFR)
- Benoît
Melançon (Montreal)
- Samuel Adams:
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa:
- René d'Argenson:
- Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815):
- John Bartram (1699-1777) and Pehr Kalm (1716-1779):
- Cornwall Bayley (1784-1807):
- William Bayly (1737-1810) and James Cook (1728-1779):
- William Beckford:
- George Hutchins Bellasis:
- Anthony Benezet (1713-1784):
- William Blake:
- Blake's
Paradise Lost -- High-resolution scans of Blake's
illuminations of Milton (1808). Thumbnails lead to large
JPEGs.
- William Bray:
- Frances Brooke (1724-1789):
- Thomas H. Brooke:
- George Burder (1752-1832):
- Jonathan Carver (1710-1780):
- Thomas Cary (1751-1823):
- Edward Chappell (1792-1861):
- Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761):
- Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776):
- James Cook:
- The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook around the
World (1821) (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
- James Cook and James King:
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (canadiana.org) -- Page
images:
- Charles Crawford (b. 1752):
- Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808):
- An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and
Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1770) (canadiana.org)
-- Page images:
- Plan
for Promoting the Fur Trade (1789) (canadiana.org) -- Page
images.
- William Dampier (1652-1715):
- Diderot:
- Francis Duncan:
- Joseph Eckley (1750-1811):
- Maria Edgeworth:
- Benjamin Gilbert (1711-1780):
- John Gill (1697-1771):
- Goethe:
- John Gyles (1680-1755):
- Elizabeth Hanson (1684-1737):
- John Harris (c. 1667-1719):
- James Hogg:
- John Keats:
- Baronne Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon:
- Jane Lead (1624-1704):
- Sophia Lee:
- Joseph de Maistre:
- Molière:
- Thomas Paine:
- Evariste Parny:
- Thomas Love Peacock:
- William Innes Pocock:
- Rousseau:
- Bernardin de Saint Pierre:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley:
- Tobias Smollett:
- Mary Wollstonecraft:
- William Wordsworth:
- Anonymous:
- Miscellaneous:
- The
Salem Witchcraft Papers: Complete 1692 Salem Witchcraft Papers
and Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
- Narratives
of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
- Metaphysical Lyrics
& Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed.
Herbert J. C. Grierson (Bartleby) -- Texts of poems by Butler,
Carew, Cleveland, Cowley, Crashaw, Davenant, Donne, Godolphin,
Herbert, King, Lovelace, Marvell, Milton, Philips, Quarles,
Suckling, Vaughan, Wotton, and others.
- 27 August 1999:
- EC/ASECS
Conference for 1999 -- Conference program for the meeting,
21-23 October 1999, at Washington and Jefferson College.
- Center
for Regional Studies (Southeastern Louisiana Univ.) --
Information on the Center and links to other resources.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Folk Music of
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America (Lesley Nelson)
-- A superb collection of resources on folk music from the
sixteenth century to the present, including texts, MIDI
transcriptions of the music, some historical commentary, and
links.
- Jeremy's
Labyrinth: A Bentham Hypertext (Texas) -- A "hyper-text made
up out of portions of Bentham's work, together with lecture notes
on Bentham."
- English
Literature & Religion (William S. Peterson, Univ. of
Maryland) -- Organized around a huge bibliography (in Adobe
Acrobat format), cataloguing over 6,000 items on the history of
religion, particularly strong on 17th- and 19th-c. Anglicanism.
Shorter bibliographies on topics (the English Bible, the Book of
Common Prayer), movements (Puritanism, mysticism), and people
(Andrewes, Milton, Hooker, Tennyson, C. S. Lewis) are also
available.
- Brycchan
Carey (Univ. of London)
- Henry Alline (1748-1784):
- Jeremy Bentham:
- Daniel Defoe:
- Thomas De Quincey:
- John Dryden:
- Jonathan Edwards:
- Elizabeth, Duchess d'Angoulême:
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
- Samuel Johnson:
- Rasselas
(1759) (In Parentheses) -- Adobe Acrobat format, with
illustrations.
- Catherine Macaulay:
- Molière:
- Tartuffe,
tr. Curtis Hidden Page (Gutenberg)
- Walter Scott:
- Tobias Smollett:
- John Wesley:
- 19 July 1999:
- Age
of Reason and Enlightenment, 1650-1800 (Robert L. Jefferson,
Sonoma State Univ.) -- A useful set of timelines and pointers to
maps on the long eighteenth century. Includes timelines and life
spans of rules, artists, philosophers, scientists, and others.
- James Paterson's
British History Site -- A useful introduction to British
history, 1640-1760. "This website represents a small attempt to
make the tangled story of Britain's precocious modernisation
readily accessible via the Web to the many people in the
English-speaking world who find themselves interested in the
period but who either lack access to important recent scholarship
or remain intimidated by its voluminousness."
- Concise
History of the British Newspaper: The British Library Newspaper
Library (British Library) -- Timeline on newspaper history,
with several illustrations.
- Salons
(André Bonchard) -- An introduction to salons around
the world, including those of Scudery,
Sévigné, Graffigny, Deffand, Baron
d'Holbach, Staël, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, and many
others. In French.
- Bibliography
of Works on Romantic Drama and British Women Playwrights
(from British Women Playwrights around 1800) -- Long enumerative
bibliography of scholarship. No annotations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeff Herrle
(Univ. of Alberta)
- David W. Owen
(Univ. of Arizona, Philosophy)
- Joseph Addison:
- Mark Akenside:
- Mateo Aleman:
- D'Alembert:
- Mary Astell, Some
Reflections upon Marriage (1700)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld:
- Mary Barber (1690-1757):
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy:
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais:
- Aphra Behn:
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre:
- Arnaud Berquin:
- William Blake, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger:
- John Bunyan:
- Robert Burns, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Byron, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort:
- Marie-Joseph Chénier:
- Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Jean-François Collin d'Harleville:
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac:
- Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon:
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon:
- Jacques Delille:
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales:
- Dominique Vivant Denon:
- Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy:
- Denis Diderot:
- John Dryden:
- César Chesneau Du Marsais:
- Charles Duclos:
- François-Guillaume Ducray-Duminil:
- George Etherege:
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian:
- Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle:
- John Gay:
- Oliver Goldsmith:
- Olympe de Gouges:
- Thomas Gray:
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset:
- Ver-Vert
(1736) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
- Jacob Grimm:
- William Hazlitt, Liber
Amoris, or The New Pygmalion (Gutenberg)
- Claude-Adrien Helvétius:
- Paul Henri Dietrich Holbach:
- Leigh Hunt, Jenny
Kiss'd Me (Poetry Archives)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, The
Massacre (1792) (British Women Playwrights around 1800) -- With a
long introduction by Danny O'Quinn.
- Samuel Johnson:
- Joseph Joubert:
- John Keats, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Anne Killigrew (1660-1685):
- Jean François de La Harpe:
- Antoine Houdar de La Motte:
- William Law, A
Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Maryland) -- Requires
frames.
- Alain-René Lesage:
- Jacques Machiavel-Cazotte:
- Xavier de Maistre:
- Sylvain Maréchal:
- Pierre de Marivaux:
- Jean-François Marmontel:
- Andrew Marvell:
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier:
- Victor Riqueti Mirabeau:
- Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu:
- John Owen:
- Charles Palissot de Montenoy:
- Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil:
- René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt:
- Alexander Pope:
- Antoine François Prévost:
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Allan Ramsay (1686-1758):
- Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne:
- Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni:
- Richardson, Samuel:
- Antoine de Rivarol:
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre:
- Jane Margaret Scott, Broad
Grins; or, Whackham and Windham (1814) (British Women
Playwrights around 1800)
- Michel-Jean Sedaine:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Jeremy Taylor, The
Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying (Maryland) -- Adobe PDF file.
- Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin Tencin:
- Samuel Auguste André David Tissot:
- Antoine Léonard Thomas:
- Jacques de Varenne:
- Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney:
- Voltaire:
- Phillis Wheatley, Selected
Poems (Poetry Archives)
- William Wordsworth, Selected
Shorter Poems (Poetry Archives)
I'll continue browsing Penn's Books
On-line, New Listings page, Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
What's
New page, and various search engines for further additions,
but suggestions are welcome: send a message to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.