*ARTFL Project: Project providing access to a large collection of digitized French resources. Unites several subscription and public access full-text databases, many of particular interest to 18th-century researchers.

Biblioteca Italiana: Digital library of literary and cultural texts from the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Clandestine E-Texts from the Eighteenth Century: Electronic versions of pre-revolutionary French clandestine philosophical manuscripts

Deutsche Biographie: Digital versions of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and Neue Deutsche Biographie, the standard biographical reference works in the German language

Dictionary of Sensibility: Project exploring key terms connected with the cult of Sensibility

*Early American Fiction 1789-1875: Full text of first editions of American novels and short stories by major authors

*Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): Searchable electronic versions of every book published in Great Britain in the 18th century

*Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Full text of around 100 works of English prose by British writers

*Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to British periodicals, many of interest to literary researchers

Eighteenth-Century Resources: Links page compiled by Jack Lynch of Rutgers

*Electronic Enlightenment: Online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period

English Broadside Ballad Archive: Page images of early English broadside ballads, based on the collection of Samuel Pepys

*English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC): Union catalog of items printed in English-speaking countries between 1473 and 1800

European Enlightenment: Introductory site on Enlightenment concepts and culture

Gallica: Digital library of the French National Library, providing access to over 900,000 documents

*Grand Corpus des dictionnaires de langue française: Historical dictionaries of the French language, with coverage from the 9th century

Hathi Trust Digital Library: Online digital library of major research materials from several leading North American academic libraries. Some texts are currently only available for searching.

Immanuel Kant: Electronic version of the 'Akademie' edition of Kant's works from the University of Bonn

Internet Library of Early Journals: Selected British journals of the 18th and 19th centuries

Jonathan Swift Archive: Electronic supplement to the printed Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift

NINES: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online: Search engine for peer-reviewed digital objects relating to the long 19th century

Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum: Page images from the most important literary and cultural journals of the Enlightenment in the German language

Romantic Readings of the Gothic: Site devoted to the British Romantics' reception of Gothic literature

Samuel Johnson: Website providing an informal introduction to Johnson's life and works

Spectator Project: Hypermedia research archive devoted to eighteenth-century periodicals, including The Spectator and The Tatler

Streetprint: Revolution and Romanticism: Database of British street literature (popular ballads, chapbooks, political pamphlets, etc.) published between 1790 and 1840

Thomas Gray Archive: From the University of Oxford. Includes primary sources and supporting textual and contextual materials.

Weimarer Goethe Bibliographie Online: Bibliography of Goethe scholarship from 1991 to the present

William Blake Archive: Provides access to some of Blake's major works that are widely dispersed around the world, and which may not be readily accessible owing to their rarity

William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture: Website from Northwestern University Library, providing access to a selection of Hogarth prints

Wörterbuchnetz: Project uniting more than 20 historical dictionaries, mostly pertaining to Germanic Studies

Zedler: Digital version of Johann Heinrich Zedler's huge German-language encyclopedia, originally published between 1731 and 1754

18thConnect: Currently a work in progress, this aims to evolve into a searchable database of peer-reviewed digital objects relating to the 18th century

Societies and Organizations

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)

Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment: Research center based at the University of Oxford

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS)

Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Oxford

C18-L: Eighteenth-century listserv. Home page includes some useful links.

Goethe Society of North America

International Gothic Association

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Voltaire Foundation: Research department in the University of Oxford

Links to further resources

Intute: UK-based project (unfortunately no longer maintained) identifying the best web resources for study and research

Voice of the Shuttle: 'Web site for humanities research'

The European Library: Portal providing access to the resources of national libraries from across Europe

Page last updated 10/17/2011 by Catherine Minter

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