CSUN

British Literature

 

Medieval

Teams Middle English Texts

-The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.

http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams

 

Early Modern Period

English Broadside Ballad Archive
-Makes broadside ballads of the seventeenth century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records.

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu

 

Shakespeare 
British Library William Shakespeare in Quarto

-See 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures.

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

 

Folger Shakespeare Library

"Digital Image Collection"
-The Folger's Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 65,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more. Images are available in high resolution and users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out to see fine detail, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches.

http://www.folger.edu/Content/Collection/Digital-Image-Collection/

 

"Discover Shakespeare"
-Whether you are just discovering Shakespeare, or are simply eager to learn more about his life, his works, how they were first performed, and the times in which he lived, we hope you will enjoy exploring these resources created by Folger staff members and others associated with the Folger.

http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=865&CFID=40349626&CFTOKEN=14263798

 

Restoration and Eighteenth Century

18thConnect

-These groups provide peer-reviewed scholarship created within the 18thConnect Exhibit Builder framework. The content includes digital 'reprints' as well as work being published for the first time within 18thConnect.

http://www.18thconnect.org/publications

 

Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts
-Gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections.

http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html

 

The Times Digital Archive     

-The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for the 19th – 20th Century history detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785. (Currently for institutions only).

http://gale.cengage.co.uk/times.aspx/

 

Nineteenth Century 

 

General

Nines
-NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.
http://www.nines.org/about/

 

Romanticism

The Shelley-Godwin Archive

-The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.

http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/

 

William Blake Archive

-The Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. A growing number of contributors have given the Archive permission to include thousands of Blake's images and texts without fees.

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/The Shelley-Godwin Archive

 

Victorian

Victorian Studies on the Web

-An indispensable source of information on every important publication from 1945 to 2011 on every field of Victorian Studies.

http://victoriandatabase.com/

 

 Victorian Women Writers Project

-Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do

 

Twentieth Century

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

-Contains over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video from WWI.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/

 

Modernism

Joyce Archives:

1. National Library of Ireland

This discovery interface allows you to search many of the Library's catalogued collections, including our
digitised material, simultaneously. You can search our:

• Printed collections including journals, magazines, and government publications

• Manuscripts catalogued since 1990 (See http://sources.nli.ie for other manuscripts)

• Visual collections including prints & drawings, ephemera, and photographs

• 34,000 digitised glass plate images from our early photographic collections (Lawrence,Independent H, Eason, Poole, Keogh, Clarke, Stereo Pairs and Tempest)

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=&filter[]=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22&filter[]=authorStr%3A%22Joyce%2C+James%2C+1882-1941%22

 

2. James Joyce Scholar's Collection (U Wisconsin)

-The selected works compiled in the James Joyce Scholars' Collection (JJSC) all share two characteristics: 1) all the books are currently out-of-print and 2) they are valuable, perhaps indispensable, to those who seek a more complete understanding and appreciation of the richness of James Joyce's literary works.

http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/JoyceColl

 

3. James Joyce Collection (U Buffalo)

-Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the James Joyce Collection is the largest Joyce collection in the world and contains his private library; holograph drafts, typescript pages and corrected galleys and page proofs for Ulysses; 66 notebooks, transcriptions, typescripts, galleys, page proofs and the author’s copy with corrections of Finnegans Wake; documents for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Joyce’s lecture on Daniel Defoe; the notebook for Exiles; hundreds of letters between Sylvia Beach and Joyce; Beach’s printing records for the publication of Ulysses; John Quinn’s letters to Beach and Joyce regarding the trial over Ulysses and The Little Review as well as other Joyce and Beach correspondence; Joyce’s presentation copies to Beach; portraits and over 150 photographs of Joyce and his family; numerous personal artifacts owned by Joyce; thousands of his newspaper clippings; and notebooks, sketchbooks and letters by Joyce’s daughter Lucia Joyce. Supplementing the archive is a complete set of first editions, including all issues and states of every book published by Joyce, translations, a large number of his magazine appearances and virtually all the literary criticism in book form on Joyce.

http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/LIB-PC004

 

Modernist Journals Project

-The Modernist Journals Project is a multi-faceted project that aims to be a major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp

 

Multiple Brit Lit Periods
British Library--Help for Researchers

-The following are links to a selection of freely available Internet sites which are known to contain digitised (and in many cases searchable) texts. Another page on the website provides links to selected digital facsimile sites. The Library also subscribes to a number of full-text databases; these are available in the Library's Reading Rooms but cannot be accessed off-site for licensing reasons.

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/electtext/etexts.html

 

Old Bailey Online

-A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

 

Orlando Project

-The Orlando Project is an experiment in the integration of text and technology. It has designed and continues to enhance digital tools to harness the power of computers for critical literary and historical research. Its widening of the knowledge base in cultural history goes together with the training and professional development of generations of students.

http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/ 

 

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts 

-Established in 1869 to locate, publish, or describe nongovernmental manuscripts of historical or literary interest held by individuals, families, or institutions.

 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

 

Union First Line Indexes (13th - 19th Centuries)
-The purpose of the Union First Line Index, hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.), is to enable cross-institutional literary research by providing a database of the first lines of manuscript verse held by the contributing institutions. Researchers can enter keywords as search terms; search by First Line,Last Line, Author, Title, Shelfmark, Women only; limit searches to specific institutions; and sort search results in various ways.

http://firstlines.folger.edu/

 

 

American Literature

 

Nineteenth Century

Emily Dickinson Archives

-A creative and critical collaboratory for reading Dickinson's material bodies and for featuring new critical and theoretical work about Emily Dickinson's writings, biography, reception, and influence, the Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts.

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

 

Uncle Tom's Cabin Archives

-Texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, film clips from 1830 to 1930 (before and after Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written).

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/

 

The Walt Whitman Archive
-The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

 

Twentieth Century

Faulkner Audio Archive

-Here you can listen in on William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences at the University of Virginia in 1957 and 1958, during his two terms as UVA’s first Writer-in-Residence. Under CONTEXTS you’ll find an introduction to this archive as well as essays, news articles, photographs and other materials to provide backgrounds to the writer, the times and the place.

http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/

 

Cross-Discipline Digital Archives

Brown Digital Repository

-The Brown Digital Repository (BDR) is a place to gather, index, store, preserve, and make available digital assets produced via the scholarly, instructional, research, and administrative activities at Brown. The Brown University Library maintains the repository as a service to the Brown community; it provides:

• A searchable index of digital objects shared by the Brown community.

• Permanent, secure storage for personal and departmental digital objects.

• Off-site backups of digital content.

• Tools for sharing and publishing digital content.

• Data curation, format migration, and preservation services.

https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/about/

 

OED Online

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

- Deals exclusively with encyclopedic explanatory entries of virtually all concepts in philosophy.

http://www.plato.stanford.edu/

 

Wiley Online Library

-Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 14,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-390001.html