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English232 (English Literature Since 1789): Victorian Period (1830 - 1901)

Created to support the APU English course that provides a chronological survey of English Literature from the Romantic through the Modern periods.

Online Scholarly Resources

Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition Study Space, Stephen Greenblatt, ET AL

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)

Reference Resources

A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, Herbert F. Tucker (editor)

Cambridge Companion to English Literature, Joanne Shattock (editor)

OED, Oxford English Dictionary (electronic)

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

Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature, (electronic)

Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, Sally Mitchell (editor)

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

APU Databases

MLA International Bibliography, core literature database

Credo Reference, Collection of more than 600 dictionaries and encyclopedias

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

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