Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts: Internet Resources on the 18th Century

Internet Resources on the 18th Century and its Literature

The 18th-Century Common
A scholarly digital humanities website dedicated to humanities research into the arts, sciences, and cultures of the 18th century.
BBC: Timeline of British History, 1715-1835
Useful chronology of major events in the long 18th century.
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
A rich collection of primary sources, articles, themes, images, and works by British Romantic and Victorian authors.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Pre-1923 primary and secondary resources. Individual pages must be saved as .jpeg images before printing (right-click to save).
Internet Archive
Vast repository of digitized historical sources.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
The world's oldest scientific journal offers free access to papers from 1665 to 70 years ago.
Public Domain Review
An online journal dedicated to uncovering hidden treasures in the public domain.
Representing Childhood
This University of Pittsburgh website explores the ways in which childhood has been viewed through the centuries.
Romantic Circles
"A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture."
Romantic Natural History
This Dickinson College website explores the relationship between natural history and literature in the century before the publication of 'The Origin of Species' in 1859.
Wellcome Library Digital Collections on Medical History
Immense, searchable database on the history of medicine, with texts and images.
The Word on the Street
A large collection of digitized broadside ballads from the Scottish National Library.

19th Century Newspapers - Register for a BPL e-Card

A Boston Public Library e-Card will grant you online access to historical newspapers, e-books, and images. All residents of Massachusetts are eligible to register.