I hope to work out a more impressive search engine one of these days,
but this will do the trick for now.
Note that some entries may appear more than once: for instance, when
they're found in both a regular page and the What's New page.
Send comments and questions to
jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
Founders' Constitution (Univ. of Chicago Press) -- A remarkable annotated edition of the U.S. Constitution, with extensive commentary and contextual material on every clause. O si sic omnes!
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.
A very impressive general art resource, with pages on Baroque and 18th-c. art. Includes information on Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, David, Ingres, Friedrich, Fuseli, Blake, Constable, Turner, West, and Copley, with an outline to cover many more. Thumbnails lead to adequate reproductions.
An extensive exhibition. Includes essays, brief biographies, and adequate reproductions (with thumbnails) for Boucher, Fragonard, Watteau, Prud'hon, Pajou, and many others. In French and English.
Includes an extensive and well-designed virtual exhibition with biographical and critical essays. Most of the graphics, however, are only thumbnails. In English and Spanish.
Original articles (in German and English), along with a very extensive and scholarly annotated bibliography of works on Hogarth. Like all come.to sites, regrettably filled with irratiting pop-up ads, but still worth attention.
Gin Lane, Beer Street, The Distrest Poet, The Idle 'Prentice, and The Enraged Musician. Moderate scanning quality; taken from late nineteenth-century prints.
Extensive site on Hogarth, including scanned prints, Wourm's own M.A. thesis on Hogarth, bibliographies, and an extensive biographical chronology. Understandably graphics-heavy; some of the Java-powered animations are intrusive.
Extensive architectural database which allows you to search by period. Only thumbnails available, but the database includes over 1,100 images from the 17th and 18th centuries.
A very useful collection of words used to describe clothing and related matters. The emphasis is on Britain and its colonies, and women's clothes get more attention than men's or children's, but the coverage is impressive.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
IN 2000
As announced at the Society's AGM in 1998, in order to give the Millenium Bug the time to expire, the Annual Conference of BSECS will be held between 10 and 14 August 2000 in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
The session titles already proposed are as follows:
The Armed Forces
The Capital and the Provinces
The XVIIIth-Century Avant-garde
Fairy Tales
Gender
History of Ideas
Horror in Life and Literature
The Idea of Rank
Intellectual Frontiers
Literary Inquiry
The Marvellous
Medicine
Music and Song
The Nobel Savage
Philosophical Discourses
Poverty and Affluence
Printing and Publishing
Private Theatres
Public and Private Space
Public Ritual and Spectacle
Religion and Superstition
Scientific Inquiry
Technology
Travel
Visual Culture
Proposals for twenty-minute papers (with an indication of the appropriate section), accompanied by an abstract of c. 200 words, should be sent, either in hard copy or by email (pasted, not as an attachment, please), to Dr John Dunkley, Department of French, University of Aberdeen, Taylor Building, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB, Scotland, UK; email j.dunkley@abdn.ac.uk, not later than 31 December 1999.
A match on http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/c.html:
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles) — An astounding edition of Lyrical Ballads in its many editions, with collations, page images, a bibliography, and much more. What Web scholarship should be. O si sic omnes!
Slavery Poems (Brycchan Carey) — Selections from Charity and The Task, with "The Negro's Complaint," "The Morning Dream," and "Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce"
The following catalogue includes most of the electronic editions of eighteenth-century works publicly available on the network. "Eighteenth century" is understood extremely broadly — this very long eighteenth century runs from Milton through Byron, or thereabouts. All are available publicly from this page. Another class of texts is available by mail from the Oxford Text Archive. Note that libretti are catalogued on the Music page.
The Thomas Gray Archive: An Interactive Hypermedia Repository (Alexander Huber) — An attractive and scholarly edition of the fourteen poems published in Gray's lifetime, with extensive and collaborative commentary. Also includes biography, a chronology, images, and a bibliography. First-rate: O si sic omnes!
A huge and impressive archive of mostly primary material on modern European and American history, including much on the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
An in-progress chronology on eighteenth-century world history, including literature, theatre, politics, science, religion, music, and art, from 1660 to 1800. Coverage is still spotty, and British culture is disproportionately represented.
Contains "more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later." Includes books and manuscripts.
An impressive collection of primary documents on the Irish Penal Laws ("Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery") from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Very impressive.
Information on the woman from mid-century who dressed as a man and served as a marine. Includes biography, chronology, genealogy, and promotes the editor's new book.
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.
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.
The best place to start for information on Equiano. Includes a bibliography, maps of Equiano's travels, selections from his Narrative, portraits, and links.
Page images of long (but not complete) runs of several eigtheenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals, including The Annual Register (1758-78), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-63), The Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50), and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77).
"A private collection of street literature held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It comprises a wide range of types, from street ballads through chapbooks and tracts to valentines, from Britain and mostly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." Several hundred texts and several thousand images are searchable by author, title, date, and first line. A very important collection.
A searchable collection of 1,800 Scottish broadsides from 1650 to 1910. Transcriptions and page images. Aimed at general readers, but also useful for scholars.
A large hypertextual archive of information, especially primary documents, on American history, with strong coverage of the colonial and revolutionary periods.
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!
Information on the Society, with links to E-texts, information on teaching, dissertations, recent and forthcoming publications, and other Web resources.
"Created to bridge the gap between what academic historians write and what the public wants to read, Common-place brings together historians and history buffs, high school teachers and archivists, collectors and college students, to explore and exchange ideas about American history."
An extensive site on the American War of Independence. The audience is mostly amateur historians, though there is useful material for scholars as well. There's also a wonderfully comprehensive set of links.
"This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century, English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica."
Popular rather than scholarly introduction to Baroque art and culture ("Lord and Lady, Officers and Gentlemen, would you grant me the pleasure to invite you to a hopefully enjoyable journey through time into the splendour of the Baroque Age and the military might of Kirke's Lambs").
Popular Web site on Napoleon ("a place where people interested in Napoleonic history can meet to exchange ideas and knowledge or just to talk about their favourite subject").
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.
An extensive site on Baron Munchausen, including a bibliography and many prints. In German and in English; the German part of the site is more comprehensive.
Short extracts from the Baron de Breteuil and Catherine's own laws.
Other History
I've found little 18th-c. information relating to the world outside Western Europe and North America. Please let me know if you come across anything I haven't listed.
"This edition [1993] of United States Naval History: A Bibliography incorporates more than 450 titles chosen from the large body of naval historical literature published since the bibliography's sixth edition appeared in 1972." Very thorough; some items annotated.
Information on a number of forts and battlefields from the early part of the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.
"An active community of living historians, historical writers, genealogists, and other persons interested in the period of time during which the American War of Independence was fought." Unscholarly but extensive, and well suited to historical re-enactors and amateur historians.
A collection of resources for historical re-enactors on the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Part of a larger site on historical re-enactment from antiquity to recent history.
Home Pages of People Working on the Eighteenth Century
The following people are doing some sort of work on eighteenth-century topics; their home pages may or may not include relevant material. Please let me know if you'd like to have your page included in this list.
Home Pages of people working in the eighteenth century.
About These Pages
These pages cover all the significant and reliable Internet resources I've been able to discover that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century — let's say Milton to Keats. The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics. The site is aimed especially at scholars and students; I've excluded many sites of interest only to fans, historical re-enactors, &c. As a rule, I've excluded commerical sites, breaking that rule only when there seemed to be genuinely useful information on a commercial page.
I've divided links into two large groups: pointers to Web sites are on the main pages, but I also have a set of pages devoted to electronic texts of eighteenth-century authors. Everything except the electronic texts now includes a brief annotation, giving some hint about what's featured on the site, as well as some technical information (graphics-heavy pages that take a long time to load over phone lines, pages that require specific browsers, &c.). Though I try to give some sense of the scholarly value of the pages, I must disavow specialist knowledge in most of the fields I comment on — I'm not qualified to judge whether a bibliography of Barbauld includes all the major scholia, or whether a biography of Hume takes into account discoveries since Mossner, let alone whether the German-language discussion of Albrecht von Haller is reliable. I've had to be content to look for the usual hallmarks of scholarly responsibility. Of course I welcome
suggestions and corrections from specialists.
It's obvious from the depth of coverage that my own interests lie in British literature and history. But I especially welcome contributions in areas on which I'm completely ignorant — eighteenth-century Africa, or Islam, or Japan, or mathematics, or theology, or whatever. Please keep me up to date. And please let me know if pages have moved or gone down.
You can contact me with suggestions or corrections.
The Johnson Dictionary Project (Univ. of Birmingham) — The complete text of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in both the first and fourth editions, completely searchable. A major scholarly project. O si sic omnes! (Temporarily down)
L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles) — Hypertext edition by Frederick Mansel Reynolds, Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.
"An index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851." Admirably scholarly.
A Dictionary of Sensibility (Corey Brady, Virginia Cope, Michael Millner, Ana Mitric, Kent Puckett, and Daniel Siegel)
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."
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.
A project linking Horace's Ars Poetica, Boileau's Art poetique, and Pope's Essay on Criticism. Gives very valuable insight into the 17th- and 18th-c. interpretation and application of one of the most influential Latin critics.
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.
A growing series of annotated bibliographies on eighteenth-century authors contributed by specialists, providing guidance on standard editions, bibliographies, biographies, and criticism.
Jim May's Bibliographies
"Recent Sources for 18th-Century Studies," a superb collection of extensive, scholarly bibliographies by James E. May of Penn State – Dubois. All are extensive and scholarly, with headnotes and some brief annotations. The current list includes:
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.
A companion to her similar bibliography for the Gentleman's Magazine. A searchable list of over 2,000 attributions of anonymous or pseudonymous contributions to the eighty-nine volumes of the magazine. Thoroughly scholarly: O si sic omnes!
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."
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.
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.
"The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature which flourished in England from 1764 to 1834. 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." Newly reorganized. A good place to start.
"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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
"This bibliography lists items (books, plays, films, etc.) that represent historical Romantic figures in fictional contexts." Several dozen works, some with brief annotations.
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."
"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."
An extensive timeline of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, now with extensive search capabilities. O si sic omnes!
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!
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
A course page, with links and original materials for many women poets, including Behn, Montagu, Carter, Leapor, Mulso (Chapone), Lennox, Baillie, and Robinson.
"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.
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.
Information on the Académie: "Since 1999 its mission consists of contributing to the international development and the range of influence of Drottningholms Slottsteater and its museum." Largely concerned with 18th-c. French-Swedish relations. Pages in English, French, and Swedish.
The most extensive Austen 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.
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.
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.
An introduction to Behn's life and work. Includes an original essay, 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!
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."
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.
An extensive fan site, with useful bibliographical information. Hosted by Geocities, and like all Geocities sites, filled with distracting commercials.
"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.
The best place to start for information on Equiano. Includes a bibliography, maps of Equiano's travels, selections from his Narrative, portraits, and links.
An attractive and scholarly edition of the fourteen poems published in Gray's lifetime, with extensive and collaborative commentary. Also includes biography, a chronology, images, and a bibliography. First-rate: O si sic omnes!
"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 a biography, E-texts, and several bibliographies of primary and secondary works.
A comprehensive bibliography of studies of Samuel Johnson since 1985. A print version from AMS press covers everything through 1998; the searchable on-line version is regularly updated.
The complete text of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in both the first and fourth editions, completely searchable. A major scholarly project. O si sic omnes!(Down for a redesign; it should come back later.)
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.
iEMLS reproduces Siemens's extensive bibliography, with useful commentary, from The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd ed. Over 300 items. Mighty impressive.
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.
Chatty page providing portraits and a few works for Pope, Behn, Cibber, Gay, Dryden, Hogarth, and Swift. Like all Geocities sites, irritatingly commercial.
Images from two editions of The Rape, which can be compared in frames.
Matthew Prior
The Matthew Prior Project (H. Bunker Wright, Richard B. Kline, and Deborah Kempf Wright, Miami Univ.)
A major scholarly project to produce a searchable index of all of the 3,000 letters to and from Prior. They hope to add transcriptions as they become available.
"An unofficial list of all works by and about Mary Darby Robinson, divided into Primary Texts, Biographical Works, Critical Discussions and Other." Admirably scholarly.
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.
An extensive but unannotated secondary bibliography on Shaftesbury. Text is in French; the cited items are in English, French, German, and Italian. Very scholarly.
An attractive set of pages on Sheridan, including a brief biography, summaries of the works, comments by other writers, satirical prints by Gillray, and a bibliography.
Eighteenth-century music is surprisingly sparse — most music resources on the Web are either general or commercial, devoted to hawking CDs. The following are worth a browse:
An impressive general site by a young conductor. Includes music history, composer pages, and introductory music theory. Not strictly 18th-c.; includes pages on Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Illustrations and brief biographies of selected major composers from the Renaissance to the present, including Pachelbel, Purcell, Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
An extensive collection of texts (in original languages and sometimes English translations) of many thousands of lieder and other songs. Not limited to the 18th c., but it's well served. Very impressive.
"Dedicated to Classical and early Romantic Lied and its relationship to lutenistic art, a relationship which requires a certain stretch of imagination." Includes tablatures of lute music.
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.
A first-rate overview of Bach's life and work, with a catalogue of compositions (indexed by by BWV number, category, title, year, key, instrument, &c.), portraits, recommended recordings, and links to other sites.
"Devoted to the playing of Bach and his contemporaries on the lute and guitar." Includes reviews of recordings and some MIDI files, along with links to other Bach sites.
Brief bio, reviews of recordings, a chronology, bibliographies, links, and some background information. An increasingly useful page, as new material is added.
Extensive and well-designed site, including a biography (incomplete), information on compositions (by Köchel number), short essays, and links to other sites.
Links to other Mozart resources on the Web; categories include biography, works, reviews, movies, other sites, T-shirts, and other classical music sites.
Extensive outline of Mozart's works, though only a few are filled in. Gives information (date, orchestration, key, dedication, location of autograph score) and audio clips.
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.
7 Jan. 2006
I've removed or corrected several hundred bad links, tracking down those that are track-down-able and deleting those that aren't. (In a few cases, when search engines suggest a page still exists but I'm unable to get to it, I've put an indication, "Down?") I've also reorganized all the E-text links, putting them in a more rational order — that is, more strictly alphabetical, and with collected and selected works at the top of each group. I'm sure it's far from perfect, but it'll have to do.
4 Jan. 2006
Once again, it's been an embarrassingly long time since I've updated my links. But this load of more than 400 new ones should go some way toward making up for the delay. This batch is especially strong on electronic texts, including a great many PDF files from the Liberty Fund, a big set of Irish texts, and a number of Polish texts.
The complete text of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in both the first and fourth editions, completely searchable. A major scholarly project. O si sic omnes!
An attractive set of pages on Sheridan, including a brief biography, summaries of the works, comments by other writers, satirical prints by Gillray, and a bibliography.
Information on a number of forts and battlefields from the early part of the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.
PDF files of the works of early modern philosophers, parapharsed for clarity, with interspersed commentary. Handy for newcomers to early modern philosophy.
A huge bibliographical database on the religious backgrounds to English literature, focusing especially (but not exclulsively) on Anglicanism. There are also some shorter, more focused bibliographies. O si sic omnes!