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English 488 (Significant Authors: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf): Jane Austen (1775 - 1816)

To support a 3 unit, upper-division English course on three of the most famous female British authors

Online Scholarly Resources

Norton Anthology of English Literature (Romantic Period)

Bartleby.com (Great Books online)

British Library: Timelines, Sources from History, British Library, London

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume XIII, online and searchable

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume IV, online and searchable

Internet Modern History Sourcebook, (Fordham University) -- note, see 19C Britain

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), free, full text, quality controlled and scholarly journals

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN): International E-Journal Devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature, erudit.

JURN, (free, full-text, and curated, academic search engine)

HathiTrust Digital Library, (online)

Reference Resources

Columbia Encyclopedia, (electronic - Credo Reference)

OED, Oxford English Dictionary (electronic)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, (Chris Baldick), E. Campus Reference, PN41.C67 2004 (hardcopy)

Literature of the Romantic Period:  a Bibliographic Guide, (Oxford University Press)

The Romantic and Victorian Periods:  Excluding the Novel, Introductions, Kenneth Muir and Arthur Pollard, E. Campus Reference, PR106 .S7 1985, v. 3

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 2011, E Campus PR 4036.C3 2011

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, 

Jane Austen:  Two Centuries of Criticism, Laurence W. Mazzeno, E Campus PR 4037 .M34 2011

APU Databaess

MLA International Bibliography, core literature database

Project Muse, complete, full-text collection of scholarly journals in a variety of fields

Literature Online, a searchable database of key criticism and reference resources

Humanities Full Text, covers literature and other humanities

Proquest Databases, multiple databases in the arts and the humanities

Oxford Reference Online, an online reference library including dictionaries and encyclopedias

JSTOR, over six hundred core, scholarly journals

Jane Austen Online

Jane Austen's Regency World, United Kingdom

JASNA, Jane Austen Society of North American

Jane Austen Socieity of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom

JASA, Jane Austen Society of Australia, Inc.

Jane Austen Timeline

1775 - Jane Austen born

1787 - Jane begins writing a collection of poems and stories later referred to as, Juvenilia

1793 - Pens, Lady Susan, an epistolary novel

1811 - Sense and Sensibility, published 

1813 - Pride and Prejudice, published

1814 - Mansfield Park, published

1815 - Emma, published

1817 - Jane Austen dies

Series Titles

Cambridge Introductions to Literature (ECampus:  PR, PN, PS call number ranges)

Ebook websites

Project Gutenberg, First producer of free ebooks

Internet Archive, Digital Free Library

Open Library, A project of the Internet Archive

Jane Austen Society of North America, (for the text of her book, Persuasion)