Research Guides: Literary Periods: Age of Revolutions

Recommended Databases

C19: Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Publications on the Anglo-American world, 1790-1919
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Complete texts of books such as the Cambridge Companions to Fiction in the Romantic Period, the literature of the American Renaissance, British Romantic Poetry, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals include: Early American Literature, Studies in Romanticism
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Citations from journals such as: Studies in Romanticism, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism, European Romantic Review
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals include: Byron Journal
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations
Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window
How social movements have shaped the human experience globally from the 1700s-
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Victorian periodicals index

Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
Correspondence on major topics from the 1600s-1800s
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Gilded Age and Progressive Era This link opens in a new window
Primary sources from America’s age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality & social change
Literary Manuscripts Berg This link opens in a new window
New York Public Library's manuscript collection, focusing on the 1800s
Nineteenth Century Literary Society This link opens in a new window
Murray publishing house titles from initial discussions through final drafts, including finances
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain This link opens in a new window
Documents life in Britain's poorest communities during the 1800s, as well as the institutions promoting public welfare
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape This link opens in a new window
Working notebooks, verse manuscripts, correspondence, etc. of writers from the 1700s-1800s
Rotunda American History This link opens in a new window
Primary & secondary source collections about U.S. history & culture
Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
Popular entertainment in America, Britain, & Europe from 1779-1930
Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life This link opens in a new window
Glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians

Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature This link opens in a new window
Overviews & annotated bibliographies on literature of the Victorian period
Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary coverage of the Enlightenment
Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History This link opens in a new window
Overviews & annotated bibliographies on Atlantic transnational interconnections

American History through Literature, 1820-70
Overview of American history through a literary lens
American History through Literature, 1870-1920
Overview of American history through a literary lens
Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature
Spans the full sweep of literary genres and figures that define this influential period.
Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature
Overview of the Romantic Movement
Literary Research and the British Romantic Era
Discusses resources for research
Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Surveys the development of the English novel during the "long" eighteenth century
Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers
Interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century, British periodicals

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.

Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Lists newspaper and periodical titles published in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales between 1824 and 1900.