Lafayette College Library

Digitized images from American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Includes general interest magazines, children's publications, women's magazines, and literary and professional journals.

Digitized collection of children's books published in the United States and Great Britain between 1850 and 1900. From the University of Florida Libraries.

Digitized collection of British manuscripts, including poems, plays, novels, diaries, journals, religious writings, and correspondence. Consists of two parts (Medieval and Renaissance, and 1660-1900), which can be searched separately or together. Note that while the full text of the manuscripts is not searchable, a searchable, detailed description is provided for each.

Provides links to medieval manuscripts available on the Web.

An online edition of four directories: Directory of poetry publishers, Directory of small press/magazine editors & publishers, International directory of little magazines & small presses, and Small press record of books in print.

"Collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."

Digital collection of 180,000 English language books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published from 1701 to 1800. Titles cover history, fine arts, medicine, science, literature, law, philosophy, and religion.

Index of essays published in books and periodicals.

A master index to reference works, such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography, published by Gale; these works contain biographical information about authors, excerpts of criticism of their works, and short bibliographies. Most of these series are available in Skillman's reference collection; Literature Resource Center provides online access to some of these works.

Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences

The full text of several academic literary reference sources. Especially useful for finding lengthy, critical biographies of widely studied authors. Note that when you perform a subject search for an author's name you must enter the author's last name first.

Collection of primary sources for the study of American social history, featuring books and journals published primarily between 1850 and 1877.

Online version of Middle English Dictionary, which provides meaning and usage of English words from 1100 to 1500. Includes links to a bibliography of sources used in dictionary and texts of Middle English verse and prose.

Shakespeare's complete works online, including the plays, sonnets, and longer poems. Advanced search functions include a character search, concordance search, and full-text search.

An index to hundreds of interviews of famous authors published in the Paris Review since its founding in 1953, plus many full-text interviews.

An online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. For each poet represented, a biography and select bibliography is also included.

Encyclopedia of English-language science fiction, with entries covering authors, themes, awards, etc.

Collection of primary sources that provide a context for understanding the place of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in American culture. Includes representative antebellum texts related to Christianity, sentimental culture, anti-slavery, and minstrel shows as well as responses to the novel.

Full-text editions of texts by English and American women published between 1400 and 1850.