Resources for Students

General Resource Pages

• Writing about Literature via UToronto
• Writing about Music via UNC
• Writing about Film via Purdue
• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• General Writing Resources from the Waterloo Writing Centre
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), a one-stop-shop for a variety of writing resources, including a quick guide to MLA Style and other style guides

Find online texts (general)

• Representative Poetry Online, online poetry texts at the University of Toronto
• Genius.com, a helpful site for finding and annotating song lyrics
• Hathi Trust, massive, fully searchable, collaborative digital repository (some features only available to institutional partners)
• OpenCulture – public domain media of all sorts
• Google Books: Advanced Search, allows searching for full-text books between specific dates; will return full text for many pre-1900 works, and searchable partial text for many in-copyright works
• MLA International Bibliography (via UWaterloo proxy), database for searching for critical works on any topic by keyword

Dictionaries and Glossaries

• Oxford English Dictionary Online (requires log-in; use UWaterloo proxy if off campus)
• Glossary of Literary Terms by Jack Lynch
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms at Kentucky Classics
• Dictionary of the Scots Language at the University of Dundee

Poetry, Song, and the Ballad Revival

• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, including images and sound files
• English Broadside Ballad Archive at UC Santa Barbara
• Roud Folk Song Index
• The Traditional Ballad Index at CSU Fresno
• Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border via Walter Scott Digital Archive (Edinburgh)
• Ballads Online project at the National Library of Wales
• “The Word on the Street” (Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland)
• The Full English digital archive (folk songs, tunes, dances)
• Penn Sound: Project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at U Penn
• Poets on Poets: Audio series at Romantic Circles
• Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake at Penn Sound
• Romantic-Era Songs archive at San Jose State University
• Robert Burns Songs from the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at Glasgow
• Hogg’s Jacobite Reliques (via my Youtube channel)

Romanticism / the 18th and 19th Centuries

• Romanticism on the Net‘s guide to resources on Romanticism, which includes journals, online resources and databases, etc.
• 18th Connect, portal to online scholarly resources on 18th century literature and culture
• Romantic Circles, wide range of Romantics resources, hosted by the University of Colorado
• NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), federation of web sites in 19th-century studies
• A Select Romanticism Bibliography by Nicholas Halmi, covering work on the period and on individual authors 
• Romantic Circles Praxis Series, peer-reviewed online journal
• Romanticism on the Net, peer-reviewed online journal

Online Texts and Databases

• Early English Books Online (EEBO), full-text database (via UWaterloo proxy)
• Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), full-text database (via UWaterloo proxy)
• British Fiction 1800-1829, database with information about the production, circulation, and reception of a wide range of works
• The Poetess Archive, resource on popular poetry and the “poetess” 1750-1900, edited by Laura Mandell
• The Bluestocking Archive, maintained by Elizabeth Fay
• Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition, offers facsimiles of Austen’s original manuscripts; under the general direction of Kathryn Sutherland
• The Blake Archive, a massive collection of Blake’s illuminated work, edited by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi.  Also offers the full text of the standard Erdman edition of Blake’s writing
• Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition sets e-text beside page images, for five different editions of Lyrical Ballads: 1798 Bristol, 1798 London, 1800 in 2 volumes; 1802 in 2 volumes; 1805 in 2 volumes.  Also allows side-by-side viewing of any two pages in the archive.  Edited by Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault
• British Women Playwrights around 1800, edited by Thomas C. Chrochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra
• The Walter Scott Digital Archive at Edinburgh University Library
• Women Poets of the Romantic Period, archive at U Colorado-Boulder
• British Women Romantic Poets, archive at U California-Davis
• Women Romantic-Era Writers, archive maintained by Adriana Craciun
• Victorian Prose Archive, edited by Alfred J. Drake
• Victorian Women Writers Project, edited by Perry Willett
• The Rossetti Archive, complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, under the general editorship of Jerome McGann
• The Swinburne Project, works of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne; edited by John A. Walsh
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, directed by John van Whye
• Dickens Journals Online, including serializations of Dickens’s own novels and those by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins; led by John Drew