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British Literature: Early English Periodicals
Resources for locating information on British literature.
Online Newspapers
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of newspapers, pamphlets, and books (1757-1817). More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.
Online Periodicals
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Full-text of core British magazines and journals, mostly from the 19th Century. Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
- Internet Library of Early JournalsDigitized issues six British magazines from the 18th and 19th century: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1843-1863; Notes and Queries, 1849-1869; The Builder, 1843-1852; Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1750; The Annual Register, 1758-1778; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1757-1777.
- Nineteenth-Century Serials EditionA free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, including Northern Star, the Leader, English Woman's Journal, and Tomahawk.
- Modernist Journals ProjectA major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. Publications included range between 1890 to 1922.
Indexes to Periodicals
- C19: Nineteenth Century Index
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Indexes British and American publications from the 19th century and includes the electronic equivalent of Poole's index to periodical literature, The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 and other sources pertaining to the 19th Century.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Cites articles from English-language periodicals from scholarly journals and important specialized magazines from 1907-1984. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences.