Research Guides: English Literature: Resources By Period

Resources By Period

Many helpful websites and databases concerning English literature are specific to certain historical or artistic periods. This guide does not offer a comprehensive list but can provide a good starting place.

Medieval and Early English Literature

Encyclopedia Mythica
The award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Fordham University's collection of resources relating to Medieval studies.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
An anthology of English literature spanning from the Medieval era to the Restoration.
Early English Books Online (free version)
This is a partial list of books published in English from 1475 to 1700.

Victorian Literature

The Victorian Web
A complex and detailed link tree of information surrounding Victorian literature, politics, and life in general.
Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research
The VRW offers a wide variety of resources concerning Victorian research, including links to primary sources like contemporary periodicals.
Victorian Women Writers Project
This project is focused on bringing awareness and scholarship to the works of Victorian women writers.
The Dickens Project
The Project creates opportunities for collaborative research on Dickens and the Victorian age and disseminates research findings through annual conferences, institutes, and publications.
Sherlockian.net
Though community discussion is at the front of this resource, it also includes a Scholarly Articles page.
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Modern and Postmodern

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
These are primary sources of popular serialized literature from the 19th - 20th century.
The American Verse Project
An electronic archive of American poetry up to 1920.
The Psychedelic 60's: literary tradition and social change
An exhibit analyzing the art and literature of the 1960s, including a section detailing the works and history that led to 60s movements.
Weird Fiction Review
A horror and weird fiction website which offers a variety of author interviews, book reviews, and analyses of genre conventions and structure.