Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts

A scholarly digital humanities website dedicated to humanities research into the arts, sciences, and cultures of the 18th century.

Useful chronology of major events in the long 18th century.

A rich collection of primary sources, articles, themes, images, and works by British Romantic and Victorian authors.

Pre-1923 primary and secondary resources. Individual pages must be saved as .jpeg images before printing (right-click to save).

A vast searchable collection of books, journals, films, and audio files in the public domain.

The world's oldest scientific journal offers free access to papers from 1665 to 70 years ago.

An online journal dedicated to uncovering hidden treasures in the public domain.

This University of Pittsburgh website explores the ways in which childhood has been viewed through the centuries.

"A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture."

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.

Immense, searchable database on the history of medicine, with texts and images.

A large collection of digitized broadside ballads from the Scottish National Library.