What's New in Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net
These are the most recent eighteenth-century resources I've discovered; they'll remain here for six months. Simple electronic texts are added to the eighteenth-century E-texts page rather than the main eighteenth-century page.
- 15 December 1999:
- Early Modern Chronology (Columbia) -- Extensive timeline of European history, 1453 to 1715.
- The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, History Subsection -- Information on the print publication.
- The Belfast Newsletter Index, 1737-1800 (John C. Greene) -- A very extensive database index to several decades of one of the oldest continuously published English-language newspapers. O si sic omnes!
- H.M.S. Bounty (Philippe Coupard) -- An unscholarly but fairly extensive collection of information on the _Bounty_, compiled by a hobbyist and model builder. Inlcudes a brief history and a bibliography. In French.
- The Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub (Steven Earnshaw) -- Selections from a book which "looks at how inns, taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the present day." Includes bibliographies and extracts. Requires frames.
- American Plantations and Colonies -- Ship Index (Thomas Langford) -- An in-progress database of ships and passenger lists for crossings to American planations and colonies, 1538-1825.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Law Library of Congress) -- Records of American legislative bodies from the Continental Congress in 1774 to 1873. Full text and page images of the House Journal, the Senate Journal, the Senate Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, the Journals of the Continental Congress, Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Records, Maclay's Journal, and Statutes at Large. Invaluable. O si sic omnes!
- Yorktown: Then and Now (Mike Rogers) -- Unscholarly but informative discussion of Yorktown, with many historical photographs and discussions of various buildings.
- Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever (Bob Arnebeck) -- Book-length study of Rush and the 1793 epidemic in Philadelphia.
- Words and Deeds of Madness in 18th-C. Paris (Laurent Cartayrade) -- An accessible collection of interdictions in legal cases over the sanity of 18th-c. Parisians. Still sparse, but intriguing.
- EH.R: Forum: Re-thinking 18th Century China -- Archive of a discussion group on 18th-c. Chinese economic history. Technical and specialized.
- Charlotte Ramsay Lennox (Devoney Looser, Wisconsin -- Whitewater, and George Justice, Marquette) -- Biographical sketch and bibliographies of primary works, early reviews, and recent scholarship. Well done.
- XVIIIe siècle: bibliographie (Benoît Melançon, Univ. of Montreal) -- A superb current bibliography of mostly secondary sources on French literature.
- Printed Sources of the 1990s for 18th-C. Studies, Part 3: Recent Studies in 18th-C. Children's Literature (James E. May, Penn State) -- Extensive annotated bibliography on children's books. Very useful.
- Jane Austen Society of North America -- An extensive site on Austen for both scholars and Janeites. Includes the on-line journal Persuasions.
- The Aphra Behn Page (Ruth Nestvold) -- Chronology, links, E-texts, and original essays.
- The Song Tradition of Robert Burns (Thomas Jeon, Virginia) -- Project for an MA thesis. Includes contextual information, background on Burns's collections of songs, several texts, audio files, anda bibliography. Well done.
- Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters (Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London) -- Jekyll's life, an annotated bibliography, selections from Sancho's letters, and links, with more to come. Very impressive.
- Ignatius Sancho: A Bibliography (Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London) -- Extensive and annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works.
- The Third Earl of Shaftesbury Bibliography (Laurent Jaffro, UFR) -- An extensive but unannotated secondary bibliography on Shaftesbury. Text is in French; the cited items are in English, French, German, and Italian. Very scholarly.
- Making Monsters: A Web Site Devoted to Mary Shelley and Her Novel Frankenstein (Cynthia Hamberg) -- E-text, biography, links, and brief notes on contexts.
- Hail Mary Shelley for her Frankenstein exercise of mind -- An unscholarly reading of the novel.
- Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text -- Information on the Edition Corvey and a collection of original articles on Romantic topics.
- Corvey Women Writers on the Web (Sheffield-Hallam) -- The goal is "to make fully searchable, peer-reviewed research available to all interested academics, scholars and researchers. ... Focuses on the 1,065 English belles-lettres titles -- around 3,000 volumes -- by women authors," 1796-1834. Now just bibliographical information, no full-text. Still, very extensive, very scholarly.
- Early Canadiana Online
- Enlightened Discourse: 18th-Century French Writings (David Gatwood, UTM) -- A big but unannotated list of links on 18th-c. French literature.
- Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning philosophy. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
- Joseph de Maistre Homepage (Richard LeBrun, St. Paul's College, Univ. of Manitoba) -- "A repository of electronic texts by and about the Counter-Enlightenment theorist and writer." Brief biography, bibliographies, and E-texts. Impressive.
- A Dedication to Spinoza's Insights (Joseph B. Yesselman) -- A curious meditation on Spinoza's works, with commentaries and some texts.
- George Berkeley (1685-1753) (David R. Wilkins, Trinity College Dublin) -- Biography, bibliography, original essays, and links on Berkeley, as part of a history of mathematics archive. Very impressive.
- The Euler Project (Ed Sandifer, Connecticut State) -- Information on and selections from texts by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
- Eighteenth-Century Novel (Marquette Univ.) -- An annual refereed publication on 18th-c. prose fiction.
- Restoration: Studies in English Literature Culture, 1660-1700 -- Information on the journal.
- Laurent Jaffro (UFR)
- Benoît Melançon (Montreal)
- Samuel Adams:
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa:
- René d'Argenson:
- Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815):
- John Bartram (1699-1777) and Pehr Kalm (1716-1779):
- Cornwall Bayley (1784-1807):
- William Bayly (1737-1810) and James Cook (1728-1779):
- William Beckford:
- George Hutchins Bellasis:
- Anthony Benezet (1713-1784):
- William Blake:
- Blake's Paradise Lost -- High-resolution scans of Blake's illuminations of Milton (1808). Thumbnails lead to large JPEGs.
- William Bray:
- Frances Brooke (1724-1789):
- Thomas H. Brooke:
- George Burder (1752-1832):
- Jonathan Carver (1710-1780):
- Thomas Cary (1751-1823):
- Edward Chappell (1792-1861):
- Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761):
- Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776):
- James Cook:
- The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook around the World (1821) (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
- James Cook and James King:
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
- Charles Crawford (b. 1752):
- Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808):
- An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1770) (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
- Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade (1789) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.
- William Dampier (1652-1715):
- Diderot:
- Francis Duncan:
- Joseph Eckley (1750-1811):
- Maria Edgeworth:
- Benjamin Gilbert (1711-1780):
- John Gill (1697-1771):
- Goethe:
- John Gyles (1680-1755):
- Elizabeth Hanson (1684-1737):
- John Harris (c. 1667-1719):
- James Hogg:
- John Keats:
- Baronne Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon:
- Jane Lead (1624-1704):
- Sophia Lee:
- Joseph de Maistre:
- Molière:
- Thomas Paine:
- Evariste Parny:
- Thomas Love Peacock:
- William Innes Pocock:
- Rousseau:
- Bernardin de Saint Pierre:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley:
- Tobias Smollett:
- Mary Wollstonecraft:
- William Wordsworth:
- Anonymous:
- Miscellaneous:
- The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Complete 1692 Salem Witchcraft Papers and Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
- Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (Virginia)
- Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (Bartleby) -- Texts of poems by Butler, Carew, Cleveland, Cowley, Crashaw, Davenant, Donne, Godolphin, Herbert, King, Lovelace, Marvell, Milton, Philips, Quarles, Suckling, Vaughan, Wotton, and others.
- 27 August 1999:
- EC/ASECS Conference for 1999 -- Conference program for the meeting, 21-23 October 1999, at Washington and Jefferson College.
- Center for Regional Studies (Southeastern Louisiana Univ.) -- Information on the Center and links to other resources.
- Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources (R. G. Siemens, Univ. of Alberta) -- iEMLS reproduces Siemens's extensive bibliography, with useful commentary, from The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd ed. Over 300 items. Mighty impressive.
- A Select Romanticism Bibliography (Nicholas Halmi, McMaster) -- A very handy annotated bibliography of editions, biographies, and important criticism on major Romantic figures: Burke, Barbauld, Smith, Blake, Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, de Quincey, Peacock, Byron, P.B. Shelley, Hemans, Keats, and Mary Shelley. The overviews of Romanticism are also useful.
- Romanticism: Selective Bibliography (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ. Chicago) -- A useful (but unannotated) bibliography of editions, biographies, and critical studies of Romantic topics and writers: Blake, Burney, Byron, Coleridge, Dacre, Hays, Hemans, Keats, Landon, Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth. The recommendations on overviews of Romanticism and topics such as the novel, women, the Gothic, and sensibility are especially extensive.
- Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715 (Barry Russell) -- An in-progress catalogue of all performances -- theatre, opera, ballet -- in Louisquatorzean France. Very impressive.
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America (Lesley Nelson) -- A superb collection of resources on folk music from the sixteenth century to the present, including texts, MIDI transcriptions of the music, some historical commentary, and links.
- Jeremy's Labyrinth: A Bentham Hypertext (Texas) -- A "hyper-text made up out of portions of Bentham's work, together with lecture notes on Bentham."
- English Literature & Religion (William S. Peterson, Univ. of Maryland) -- Organized around a huge bibliography (in Adobe Acrobat format), cataloguing over 6,000 items on the history of religion, particularly strong on 17th- and 19th-c. Anglicanism. Shorter bibliographies on topics (the English Bible, the Book of Common Prayer), movements (Puritanism, mysticism), and people (Andrewes, Milton, Hooker, Tennyson, C. S. Lewis) are also available.
- Brycchan Carey (Univ. of London)
- Henry Alline (1748-1784):
- Jeremy Bentham:
- Daniel Defoe:
- Thomas De Quincey:
- John Dryden:
- Jonathan Edwards:
- Elizabeth, Duchess d'Angoulême:
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
- Samuel Johnson:
- Rasselas (1759) (In Parentheses) -- Adobe Acrobat format, with illustrations.
- Catherine Macaulay:
- Molière:
- Tartuffe, tr. Curtis Hidden Page (Gutenberg)
- Walter Scott:
- Tobias Smollett:
- John Wesley:
- 19 July 1999:
- Age of Reason and Enlightenment, 1650-1800 (Robert L. Jefferson, Sonoma State Univ.) -- A useful set of timelines and pointers to maps on the long eighteenth century. Includes timelines and life spans of rules, artists, philosophers, scientists, and others.
- James Paterson's British History Site -- A useful introduction to British history, 1640-1760. "This website represents a small attempt to make the tangled story of Britain's precocious modernisation readily accessible via the Web to the many people in the English-speaking world who find themselves interested in the period but who either lack access to important recent scholarship or remain intimidated by its voluminousness."
- Concise History of the British Newspaper: The British Library Newspaper Library (British Library) -- Timeline on newspaper history, with several illustrations.
- Salons (André Bonchard) -- An introduction to salons around the world, including those of Scudery, Sévigné, Graffigny, Deffand, Baron d'Holbach, Staël, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, and many others. In French.
- Bibliography of Works on Romantic Drama and British Women Playwrights (from British Women Playwrights around 1800) -- Long enumerative bibliography of scholarship. No annotations.
- Printed Sources of the 1990s for 18th-C. Studies Part 2: Recent Studies (and Editions) of Women Writers, Readers, and Publishers (James E. May, Penn State -- DuBois) -- Very extensive and scholarly bibliography of recent scholarship on 18th-c. women. Headnote and some brief annotations.
- Samuel Johnson's "Shakespeare" (Clark Holloway) -- Selected annotations from Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, with an introduction by Holloway and links to other relevant E-texts.
- Ffugiadau Llenyddol / Litterære Falsknerier / Literary Forgeries (Johan Schimanski) -- Bibliographies, biographies, essays, and links on a few forgers at the end of the eighteenth century, including Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams) and Macpherson. With a handy chronological table of forgers around 1800. In Norwegian, Welsh (!), and English.
- Romantische Anthropologie (Uli Wunderlich and Adam Lawrence) -- Guide to Romantic-era anthropology, with profiles of Autenrieth, Baader, Brandis, Burdach, Carus, Doellinger, Ennemoser, Goerres, Heinroth, Ideler, Kieser, Leupoldt, Nasse, Oken, Schubert, Steffens, Troxler, and Windischmann, with more to come. Biographies, bibliographies, and some illustrations -- all very impressive. In German and English.
- Romantic Prose Fiction (Uwe Spoerl) -- Overview of an in-progress volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series, with useful bibliographies and links on Romantic prose across Europe. Admirably comparative.
- Jeff Herrle (Univ. of Alberta)
- David W. Owen (Univ. of Arizona, Philosophy)
- Joseph Addison:
- Mark Akenside:
- Mateo Aleman:
- D'Alembert:
- Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld:
- Mary Barber (1690-1757):
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy:
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais:
- Aphra Behn:
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre:
- Arnaud Berquin:
- William Blake, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger:
- John Bunyan:
- Robert Burns, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Byron, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort:
- Marie-Joseph Chénier:
- Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Jean-François Collin d'Harleville:
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac:
- Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon:
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon:
- Jacques Delille:
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales:
- Dominique Vivant Denon:
- Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy:
- Denis Diderot:
- John Dryden:
- César Chesneau Du Marsais:
- Charles Duclos:
- François-Guillaume Ducray-Duminil:
- George Etherege:
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian:
- Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle:
- John Gay:
- Oliver Goldsmith:
- Olympe de Gouges:
- Thomas Gray:
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset:
- Ver-Vert (1736) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
- Jacob Grimm:
- William Hazlitt, Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion (Gutenberg)
- Claude-Adrien Helvétius:
- Paul Henri Dietrich Holbach:
- Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kiss'd Me (Poetry Archives)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, The Massacre (1792) (British Women Playwrights around 1800) -- With a long introduction by Danny O'Quinn.
- Samuel Johnson:
- Joseph Joubert:
- John Keats, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Anne Killigrew (1660-1685):
- Jean François de La Harpe:
- Antoine Houdar de La Motte:
- William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Maryland) -- Requires frames.
- Alain-René Lesage:
- Jacques Machiavel-Cazotte:
- Xavier de Maistre:
- Sylvain Maréchal:
- Pierre de Marivaux:
- Jean-François Marmontel:
- Andrew Marvell:
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier:
- Victor Riqueti Mirabeau:
- Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu:
- John Owen:
- Charles Palissot de Montenoy:
- Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil:
- René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt:
- Alexander Pope:
- Antoine François Prévost:
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Allan Ramsay (1686-1758):
- Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne:
- Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni:
- Richardson, Samuel:
- Antoine de Rivarol:
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre:
- Jane Margaret Scott, Broad Grins; or, Whackham and Windham (1814) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)
- Michel-Jean Sedaine:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying (Maryland) -- Adobe PDF file.
- Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin Tencin:
- Samuel Auguste André David Tissot:
- Antoine Léonard Thomas:
- Jacques de Varenne:
- Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney:
- Voltaire:
- Phillis Wheatley, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
- William Wordsworth, Selected Shorter Poems (Poetry Archives)
I'll continue browsing Penn's Books On-line, New Listings page, Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle What's New page, and various search engines for further additions, but suggestions are welcome: send a message to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.