V611: Victorian Studies
Bibliography and Historiography
A growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for more than 11 million documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level. An attempt to list every book published in Great Britain and its colonies, or published in English anywhere in the world, in the 19th century. See printed bibliographies in Reference Collection for equivalent listings for other countries and languages. Tips: In IUCAT, use Advanced Keyword search, include 19th century and/or bibliography and/or sources as subject terms. (WorldCat uses he same subject terms.) To find 19th-century publications, limit your search by dat of publication. Also: the British Library Catalogue, COPAC, combined online catalog for major UK research libraries, Gabriel (Gateway to Europe's National Libraries) Electronic indexes to scholarly publications in history (HA is world history, AHL is North American history). Use the Time Period Index to focus search on the 19th century, or even individual decades. Note that the MLA does not use 19th century as a subject term/descriptor. Use 1800-1899 instead. Nineteenth Century is the operative word, e.g. English literature Nineteenth Century "Allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 author, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists)." Libraries’ Old News Page Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (major US and British publications, 1802-1907) and Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922). Also: Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. Useful as a supplement to Poole's Index, this index is searched by author, and includes bibliographies and tables of contents. A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images. More an 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 preent states, 1690-1922. British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Index of popular U.S. magazines, coverage back to 1889. Digital archive of the London Times, 1785-1985. Includes both searchable text and page images. Digital archive of the New York Times, 1851-2001. Includes both searchable text and page images. Index to thousand of scholarly journals in English and other western European languages, with coverage back to first issue of journal. An archive of hundreds of digitized journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Digitized selections from 19th-century American periodicals. http://dl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ and http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ Digital archive of a 19th-century American women's magazine. Includes searchable text and illustrations but not full page images. Searchable text of key 19th-century African American newspapers. Searchable digital archive of core scholarly journals, with coverage going back to first issue of each journal. Good for primary sources for 19th-century science, as well as for literary criticism and historiography. Wells Library - Research Coll. - Stacks Z6951 .U5 Wells Library - Research Coll. - Stacks Z1225.W38 1996 Series of guides for specific journals useful for lesser known writers, 1860-1910. BROWSE IUCAT for "Indexes to Fiction in" to retrieve a list of journals covered. Available in Literature Criticism Online Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept. PN2256.M37 1984 Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept. Z2013.W36 Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept. PN1581.N4 Wells Library - Research Coll. – Stacks PR590.R415 Wells Library - Research Coll. - Stacks Z2021.C7 P32 1987 Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept. Z6676.U5 Use Historical Indexes file to search U.S. Congressional documents from 1789— The Papers themselves are available on microfiche. Consult with Government publications staff to learn more. Amerian magazines and journals, 1740-1900. Contains searchable full text of all extant issues of over 1000 titles, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. Can be cross-searched with historical newspaper archives. Titles and series are in IUCAT. Online and microform. Contains over 70,000 images of original manuscripts (including biographies and chronologies) and printed materials covering Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceana, and South Asia.Coverage: 1492-1962 Titles and series are in IUCAT. Electronic texts of the complete works of English poets to 1900. Wonderful for identifying the bits of poetry 19th-century writers are so fond of sprinkling through their works… Correpondence, minutes, and other papers of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, the Anti-slavery Society, the Aborigines Protection Society, and other similar societies and committees, 1795-1880. Wells Library - GIMSS - Microforms - Microfilm - HT857.R48 Archival materials from a number of libraries in the southern U.S. Wells Library - GIMSS - Microforms - Microfilm - HQ1438.S63 S687 Digitized collection of nearly 3000 American novels. Highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. On the Internet: Don't miss the amazing bibliography of periodical literature resources, http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html A web encyclopedia of eminent Victorians, key issues, etc.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog
Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life
MLA International Bibliography
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception
General Interest Periodicals and Newspapers:
19th Century Historical United States Newspapers
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. Includes 17-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks & ephemera, and national & regional papers from British Isles.
Early American Newspapers Series I, II, III, IV & V
Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Times Digital Archive (The Times, London)
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Making of America Project
African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Indexes to Fiction and Literature in Periodicals:
Index to Early American Periodical Literature, 1728-1870
The Literary Index to American Magazines, 1815-1865; 1850-190
Indexes to Fiction in...
Literary Reviews and Criticism:
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (includes contemporary reviews of 19th-century literature)
American Literary and Drama Reviews: An Index to Late 19th Century Periodicals
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1789-1797; 1798-1820 (2 v.); 1821-1826
New York Times Theater Reviews (1870-present)
The Romantics Reviewed; Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers
Subject-Specific Periodical Indexes:
The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867: A Bibliography
International Index to the Performing Arts (1864 - present)
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (medicine) 16th century-mid-20th century
Beilstein CrossFire plus Reactions (Chemistry) 1771-present
PsycINFO (Psychology) 1887-present
GeoRef (CSA) (Geology) 1785-present
Government Publications:
Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (available in C 19: the Nineteenth Century Index)
Selected Nineteenth Century Collections:
American Periodicals Series Online
English Literary Periodicals (Microform)
Rhodes House Library, Oxford, anti-slavery collection (Microform)
Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries (Microform)
This database describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe from 1779 to 1930. Subjects covered include stage magic, spirit writing and ghost hunting.
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)Victorian Women Writers Project
