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Nineteenth Century British Literature: A Selective Guide This is a highly selective guide for literary research. The literary &
period research guides listed below provide more detailed guidance. |
Library of Congress Classification Outline
This classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system.
For example, English language dictionaries will always be classed in the PEs,
General literature in the PNs, British literature in the PRs, British History in
the DAs, & Bibliography of Britain in the Z2000s.
Call # Locations in Davis Library
Materials in Davis Stacks will just indicate
Davis + call #.
I. A. Literary Research Guides
Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference
Sources in English Literary Studies. 4th ed. New York: Modern Language
Association, 2002.
Now the standard guide for British and American literature, Harner also includes
chapters for other literatues in English, foreign-language literatures, and
comparative literature.
Davis Reference Desk PR83 .H34 2002
Bracken, James K.
Reference Works in British and American Literature.
2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
Identifies reference works for approximately 1500 individual British and American
authors.
Davis Reference Desk PR83 .B74 1998
Wortman, William A. A Guide to Serial Bibliographies for
Modern Literature. New York: Modern Language Association, 1995.
Lists bibliographic sources which appear regularly (like the MLA Bibliography),
grouped in five major areas:comprehensive bibliographies and general indexes;
English,American, and Commonwealth literatures; non-English
literatures; subjects (e.g., critical and literary theory,
film); authors (i.e., bibliographies of critical works
about specific authors).
Although now somewhat dated, Wortman is especially useful for identifying serial bibliographies
appearing in scholarly journals.
Davis Reference PN695 .W678 1995
I. B. Period-Specific Guides
Victorian Studies: A Research Guide. Sharon W. Propas. 2nd ed.
High Wycombe, England : Rivendale Press, c2006.
Davis Reference DA550 .P76 2006
II. A. Encyclopedic Resources for 19th Century Britain
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The
Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. Daniel Pool. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Also, circulating copies in Davis and U.L.
Davis Reference PR468.S6 P66 1993
II. A. 1. Romantic Period
The Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s. Laura Dabundo, editor. New York : Garland Pub., 1992.
Davis Reference DA529 .E53 1992
A Handbook to English Romanticism. Edited by Jean Raimond and J.R. Watson.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PR457 .H26 1992
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. General editor, Iain McCalman ; associate editors,
Jon Mee, Gillian Russell, Clara Tuite ; assistant editors, Kate Fullagar, Patsy Hardy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Davis Reference PR447 .R64 1999
II. A. 2. Victorian Period
The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture. Edited by G.A. Cevasco.
New York : Garland, 1993.
Davis Reference DA560 .A18 1993
A Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture. Edited by Herbert F. Tucker.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Davis Reference PR461 .C597 1999
Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. 4 vols. James Eli Adams, editor in chief;
Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, editors. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Academic Reference, c2004.
Davis Reference DA550 .E527 2004
The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World: A Reader's Companion to the People, Places,
Events, and Everyday Life of the Victorian Era. Melinda Corey and George Ochoa, [editors].
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
Davis Reference DA550 .E53 1996
Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Sally Mitchell, editor ... [et al.].
New York : Garland Pub., 1988.
Davis Reference DA550 .V53 1988
The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
Davis Reference DA68 .R38 2004
II. B. British History
Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. 2 vols. James S. Olson and Robert Shadle, editors;
associate editors, Patricia Ashman ... [et al.]. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Not restricted to the 19th century.
Davis Reference DA16 .H56 1996
The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886 . K. Theodore Hoppen. Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Series: New Oxford history of England.
Davis Reference DA560 .H58 1998
A New England?: Peace and War, 1886-1918. G.R. Searle. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series: New Oxford history of England.
Davis Reference DA560 .S396 2004
The Oxford History of the British Empire. 5 vols. Editor-in-chief, Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998-
Vol. 3. The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Andrew Porter.
Davis Reference DA16 .O95 1998
Reader's Guide to British History. 2 vols. David Loades, editor. New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
Not restricted to the 19th century.
Davis Reference DA34 .R43 2003
II. C. Literary History
The Oxford English Literary History. 13 vols. [In Progress] Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002-
v. 7. 1785-1832 : the Romantic Period / Fiona Robertson -- v. 8. 1830-1880 : the Victorians / Philip Davis
-- v. 9. 1875-1914 : from "Victorian" to "Edwardian" / Joseph Bristow.
For the 19th century, only v. 8 has been received (as of Jan. '08). See volumes in the earlier Oxford History of
English Literature series, vols. 9-13.
Davis PR85 .O96 2002
II. D. Periodicals
British Literary Magazines. 4 vols. Edited by Alvin Sullivan. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1983-c1986.
See: V. 2 The Romantic Age, 1789-1836;V. 3 The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913.
Davis Reference PN5124.L6 B74 1983
Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research. 2 vols.
Scott Bennett ... [et al.] ; edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1978-1989.
Davis Reference PN5124.P4 V5 1978
Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society . Edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel.
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1994.
Davis Reference PN5117 .V537 1994
II. E. Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy:
From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000 . 60 vols. Edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Dictionary of National Biography has for over 100 years been the definitive source of
reference biographical information about persons who have had a significant impact on British history.
The new completely revised and updated edition in 60 print volumes is also now available online,
covering over 50,000 individuals. The online version also provides access to the text of the original 33 volume edition.
[Source: Vendor Website]
See the
World Biographical Index (below) for indexing of less famous figures.
Davis Reference DA28 .O94 2004.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1978-.
An ongoing series of more than 300 volumes of bio-critical articles on individual authors, with some volumes devoted to general topics.
Each volume, as it is published, has a cumulative index for the set, hence the
most recent (highest numbered) volume will index the set at any
given time. The text of the DLB is now available electronically(with very few illustrations) as part of the
Literature Resource Center (see below for fuller description).
Print volumes of the DLB, with much excellent illustrative material, are all located
on Davis Reference Row 3, under the following call number:
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date
Relevant DLB titles for 19th Century British Literature:
British children's writers, 1800-1880 (DLB v. 163)
British children's writers, 1880-1914 (DLB v. 141)
The British literary book trade, 1700-1820 (DLB v. 154)
British literary publishing houses, 1820-1880(DLB v. 106)
British literary publishing houses, 1881-1965 (DLB v. 112)
British mystery writers, 1860-1919 (DLB v. 70)
British novelists, 1890-1929 : modernists (DLB v. 36)
British novelists, 1890-1929 : traditionalists (DLB v. 34)
British philosophers, 1800-2000 (DLB v. 262)
British poets, 1880-1914 (DLB v. 19)
British reform writers, 1789-1832 (DLB v. 158)
British reform writers, 1832-1914 (DLB v. 190)
British Romantic novelists, 1789-1832 (DLB v. 116)
British romantic poets, 1789-1832. First series (DLB v. 93)
British romantic poets, 1789-1832. Second series (DLB v. 96)
British romantic prose writers, 1789-1832. First series (DLB v. 107)
British Romantic prose writers, 1789-1832. Second series (DLB v. 110)
British short-fiction writers, 1800-1880 (DLB v. 159)
British short-fiction writers, 1880-1914 : the realist tradition (DLB v. 135)
British short-fiction writers, 1880-1914 : the romantic tradition (DLB v. 156)
British travel writers, 1837-1875 (DLB v. 166)
British travel writers, 1876-1909 (DLB v. 174)
Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literary biographers (DLB v. 149)
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British women poets (DLB v. 240)
Late-Victorian and Edwardian British novelists. First series (DLB v. 153)
Late-Victorian and Edwardian British novelists. Second series (DLB v. 197)
Nineteenth-century British book-collectors and bibliographers (DLB v. 184)
Victorian novelists before 1885 (DLB v. 21)
Victorian novelists after 1885 (DLB v. 18)
Victorian poets before 1850 (DLB v. 32)
Victorian poets after 1850 (DLB v. 35)
Victorian prose writers before 1867 (DLB v. 55)
Victorian prose writers after 1867 (DLB v.57)
Victorian women poets (DLB v. 199)
Literature Recource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as
well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles
from various Gale criticism sets, including selections from Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (See below)
It is possbile in LRC to search for
authors individually or to search for "Authors by Type,"
limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc.
Article Databases & More
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism[serial]. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981-
In addition to providing biographical overviews of authors, NCLC reprints critical excerpts or full
articles of literary criticism. Sometimes useful for tracing critical reception & identifying early reviews,
as the critical pieces are arranged chronologically. As with other sets in these Gale series, the highest numbered
volume indexes the entire set.
Davis Reference Row 6 PN761 .N5
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Davis Reference PR115 .N55 2000
Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, a Reference Guide and Reader. Jane Decker ... [et al.].
New York: G.K. Hall ; London: Prentice Hall Hall [sic] International, c1997.
Davis Reference HQ1593 .K366 1997
World Biographical Index
Indexes many 19th & early 20th century biographical compendia, and references microfiche collections published
by Saur that reproduce the biographical entries. It is especially useful for locating more obscure
persons. Duke holds the fiche collection of the British Biographical Archive (individual fiche may be borrowed via
ILL). Although UNC-CH does not hold the British Archive collection, it may well
have the individual biographical compendia cited in the World Biographical Index.
Article Databases & More
II. F. Handbooks, Chronologies, Gazetteers, etc.
A miscellaneous collection of potentially useful resources.
British Directories: A Bibliography and Guide to Directories Published in England and Wales
(1850-1950) and Scotland (1773-1950). Gareth Shaw and Allison Tipper.
Leicester : Leicester University Press, 1988 [i.e. 1989]
Davis Reference DA27.5 .S5 1997
British Historical Statistics. By B.R. Mitchell. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Davis Reference HA1134 .M58 1988
Handbook of British Chronology. Edited by E.B. Fryde ... [et al.]. 3rd ed., Repr. with corrections.
Cambridge, [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
A very detailed chronology, listing English Officers of State, Rulers, Archbishops and Bishops. Also has information
for Scotland, Ireland, Wales, & the Channel Islands.
Davis Reference DA34 .H28 1996
A Literary Gazetteer of England. By Lois H. Fisher. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1980.
Davis Reference PR109 .F5
The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. 2 vols. Edited by Michael Cox.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Davis Reference PR87 .O98 2002
The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by Dorothy Eagle and Meic Stephens.
2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PR109 .E18 1992
II. G. Filmography
The filmographies below will list film adaptations of literary works, not restricted
to the 19th century. Encyclopedias will provide more information on fewer films.
To find reviews of specific films, refer to the
Film Review Sources Guide. To find criticism on film adaptations of 19th British literature, or
for specific author/film adaptations search
MLA/
ABELL, for example, for the following subjects: 1)english literature and 1800-1899 and film;
2) dickens charles and film; 3) austen jane and persuasion and film.
Movie Reviews/Online Filmography
Search by film genre, or "Books to Film" for specific authors or by Period, e.g.
19th Century.
Dictionnaire Filmographique de la Littérature Mondiale. Filmographic Dictionary of World Literature. Johan
Daisne. Gand, E. Storyscientia, 1971-75. Two vols. + suppl.
Davis Reference PN1997.85 .T5
The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh.
2 nd ed. New York : Facts on File, c2005.
Davis Reference PN1997.85 .T54 2005
The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film . John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh.
New York : Facts on File, c2001.
Davis Reference PN1997.85 .T544 2001
Enser's Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays From Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-2001 .
Compiled by Ellen Baskin. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.
Davis Reference Z5784.M9 B385 2003
III. Guides to Government Publications & to Archives
British Parliamentary Papers and Hansard's Debates are examples of primary source documents that
may be of enormous use to the literary/historical researcher. Below is a sampling of some of the guides
& indexes available for locating these kinds of materials. Additionally, the two
following Author searches are useful for locating primary materials: (1)
Great Britain -- Public Record Office;
(2)
Royal Historical Society (Great Britain).
BA/SS Guide to British Government Publications. Compiled by Patricia A. Langelier.
Chapel Hill : Business Administration/Social Sciences Reference, Davis Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [1989]
Although in need of updating, this guide gives UNC-CH & Duke holdings for many materials.
Davis Reference Desk Z2009 .L36 1989
BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative
Reader Information Service)
BOPCRIS aims to save researchers wasting valuable research time and effort finding relevant
British Official Publications over the period 1688 -1995... [Source: BOPCRIS website]
British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom. Editors, Janet Foster and
Julia Sheppard ; consultant editor, Richard Storey. 4th ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgave, 2002.
Davis Reference CD1040 .F678 2002
British History Online
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed
primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust,
we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. [Source: BH website]
A Guide to British Government Publications. By Frank Rodgers. New York : H. W. Wilson, 1980.
Davis Reference Z2009 .R62
Indexes of British Parliamentary Papers [computer file]. 1st ed.; CD-ROM ed. Tokyo : Bunsei Shoin, c1997.
House of Commons (1801-1944/45), House of Lords (1801-1922). Sessional index -- General (subject) index -- Index of names.
NB: Duke has online House of Commons Parliamentary Papers ("to include full text for 1801-2005 by the end of
2006").
Davis Library Reference E-Docs 10-283
Nineteenth Century Masterfile.
Among many other collections NCMF includes Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons
& House of Lords, 1803-1830, & Poole's Index to Periodical Literature.
Article Databases & More
Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900. 5 vols. [Compiled by] Peter Cockton.
Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey, c1988.
A very broad, classified index to the Papers.
Davis Reference Row 10 Z2019 .C63 1988
IV. A. Serial Bibliographies for Literature & History
Undoubtedly, MLA & ABELL are the premier serial (ongoing) bibliographies for the study of
British literature, as is Historical Abstracts for the study of British history from the Renaissance forward.
That said, there are other specialized serial bibliographies that are useful for the study of 19th century
British literature, and they follow MLA, ABELL, & HA in this section. See also the "Surveys of
Research" section below for Bibliographic Essays that may be issued serially.
All subject areas will have their specialized indexes/serial bibliographies. If you are uncertain which index or database
may be the most appropriate for a specific subject, try the
Research by Subject link from the Article Databases icon on the
Library's Homepage For tips on searching ABELL & MLA (below),
see the
MLA - ABELL Search Guide.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA indexes books, book chapters, articles, & dissertations done in literature
depts. Does not index books reviews. MLA attempts coverage of all
modern literatures worldwide, but does not cover classical Greek & Latin literatures
(which are indexed by
L'Annee Philologique. In April 2006, MLA added electronic records for the interim 1926-1962,
thereby extending electronic availability back to 1926 (and earlier for some
JSTOR records.) MLA also now
provides linking to articles from
Project Muse journals.
Article Databases & More, 1926-present (plus earlier full-text linking to JSTOR articles).
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature).
ABELL provides indexing for English-language literatures and links to some
full text via Literature Online (LION) -- see Primary Sources below. Indexes books,
book chapters, articles, dissertations, & book reviews of scholarly books.
Available electronically 1920 to present.
Article Databases & More
Historical Abstracts
An index for non-North American history, 1450 A.D. to present. Indexes books,
book chapters, articles, dissertations & book reviews.
Article Databases & More
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
The Royal Society Bibliography offers access to many resources for studying British
and Irish history from the Roman period to the present. The bibliography indexes
nearly 600 journals plus monographs and books of essays. The site also connects to
Irish History Online and
London's Past Online, and to guides to
publications of historical record societies, including what is called "texts and calendars."
The online site incorporates two former print publications:
Writings on British History (1901-1974),
Davis Library, Z 2016.R88
Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (1975-2002),
Davis Library, Z 2016 .A5
Annual Bibliography of Victorian Studies [serial]. Edmonton : LITIR Database, c1980-
A broad ranging index for the period including, in addition to literature, fine arts, philosophy & religion,
history, the social sciences, and science & technology. Annual volumes are superceded by 5-year
cumulations, Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies [serial]. (Davis Reference Z2019 .A642)
[This index is now available online as: Victorian Database Online -- cf. the
Victorian Studies website for details. However, UNC-CH does not yet have the online version.]
Davis Reference Z2019 .A64
Keats-Shelley Journal [serial-]. [Annual] New York, Keats-Shelley Association of America.
"A periodical devoted to Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and their circles."
The "Current Bibliography" provides an annual, ennumerative bibliography for these figures.
See "Retrosptive Bibliographies" (below) for collections of these bibliographies.
Davis PR500 K4 v.1 (1952) To Date
IV. B. Surveys of Research (Bibliographic Essays)
Bibliographic essays are narrative in form and typically survey the state of research for a
particular subject area, literary figure, etc. They are by nature highly selective and evaluative.
They may be retrospective, surveying the state of research up until shortly before the date of publication of a monograph,
or they may be issued serially and typically survey "The Year's Work" in a particular area. Bibliographic essays
are particularly useful for alerting scholars to the most significant work in a particular area.
The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism. John Clubbe ... [et al.] ; edited by Frank Jordan.
4th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1985.
Should be updated by The Year's Work in English Studies, below.
Davis Reference PR590 .E5 1985
Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide. Edited by Michael O'Neill.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Davis Reference PR457 .L58 1998
Studies in English literature, 1500-1900 [serial]: SEL. [Houston, Rice University]
The Autumn issue of SEL is devoted to The Nineteenth Century & includes a bibliographic essay,
"Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century."
Davis PR1 .S82 v.1 (1961)-c1 TO DATE
Victorian poetry [serial]. [Morgantown, W. Va.] West Virginia University.
The Fall issue of VP includes a bibliographic essay, "Guide to the Year's Work."
Davis PR500 .V5 v.1 (1963)- TO DATE
The Year's Work in English studies [serial]. London, Published for the English Association by John Murray [etc.]
The principal bibliographic essay serial for English language and literature, with separate chapters for the Romantic
& Victorian Periods. Similar series are: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies (
Davis Ref. PB1 .Y45); & The Year's Work in Critical and
Cultural Theory (
Davis Ref. PN80 .Y43). It is not uncommon for there to be a several year publishing lag time for these.
Davis Reference PE58 .E6 v.1 (1919)- TO DATE
IV. C. Retrospective Bibliographies
IV. C. 1. Literature
Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945-
"Reproductions of annual bibliographies published in Modern Philology and Victorian Studies."
"First issue covers 13 years."
Davis Reference Z2013 .B59 1932/1944-1975/1984
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Edited by Joanne Shattock. 3rd ed. Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge University Press, [1999-]
V. 4, 1800-1900. "This is the first volume of The Cambridge bibliography of English literature third edition to appear."
Rev. ed. of: New Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 1969-1977.
Useful for identifying authors' primary works, and although the secondary bibliography is very limited,
CBEL can be useful in identifying early, contemporary reviews of works listed.
Davis Reference Z2011 .N45 1999
Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and their Circles; a Bibliography: July 1, 1950-June 30, 1962.
Edited by David Bonnell Green and Edwin Graves Wilson. Compiled by David Bonnell Green [and others]
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1964]
" A collection [not cumulated] of the first twelve annual bibliographies taken from Keats-Shelley Journal."
Davis Reference Z2013 .K4
Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and their Circles: A Bibliography, July 1, 1962-December 31, 1974.
Edited by Robert A. Hartley ; compiled by David Bonnell Green ... [et al.].Lincoln : University of Nebraska, c1978.
" A collection [not cumulated] of the annual bibliographies which appeared in v. 13-25 of the Keats-Shelley Journal."
Davis Reference Z2013 .K42
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1789-1797: A Bibliography: With a Supplementary
List of General (non-review) Articles on Literary Subjects . Compiled by William S. Ward.
New York : Garland Pub., 1979.
Davis Reference Z2013 .W36 1979
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1798-1820: A Bibliography: With a Supplementary
List of General (non-review) Articles on Literary Subjects . Compiled by William S. Ward.
New York : Garland Pub., 1972.
Davis Reference Z2013 .W36
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1821-1826: A Bibliography: With a Supplementary
List of General (non-review) Articles on Literary Subjects . Compiled by William S. Ward.
New York : Garland Pub., 1077.
Davis Reference Z2013 .W36 1977
The Romantic Movement [serial]. [Ceased with 1998 volume?] New York : Garland Pub., -c1999.
An annual bibliography of the Romantic Movement, not restricted to any one nationality. Contains a general studies
chapter, as well as chapters for English, French, German, Italian, & Spanish Romanticism. See also the
7 volume cumulation (below) for the years 1936-1970.
Davis Reference Z6514.R6 R651 1971-1998
The Romantic Movement Bibliography, 1936-1970; a Master Cumulation from ELH,
Philological Quarterly, and English Language Notes. 7 vols. Edited and with a pref. by A. C. Elkins, Jr.
and L. J. Forstner. With a foreword by David V. Erdman. [Ann Arbor, Mich.] Pierian Press, 1973.
Davis Reference Z6514.R6 R65
IV. C. 2. British History
Bibliography of British History, 1789-1851. Ed. by Lucy M. Brown and Ian R. Christie.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Davis Reference Z2019 .B76
Bibliography of British History, 1851-1914. Compiled and edited by H. J. Hanham.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
Davis Reference Z2019 .H35
IV. D. Checklists of Authors by Genre/Gender
Bibliography of English Printed Tragedy, 1565-1900. Compiled and edited by Carl J. Stratman.
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1966]
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 S83
A Checklist of Women Writers, 1801-1900: Fiction, Verse, Drama. R.C. Alston. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, c1990.
Davis Reference Z2013.5.W6 A48 1990
English Drama of the Nineteenth Century: An Index and Finding Guide. Compiled and edited by James Ellis;
assisted by Joseph Donohue ; Louise Allen Zak, editorial associate. New Canaan, Conn. : Readex Books, 1985.
An index to the English portion of
English and American drama of the Nineteenth Century, a microprint
collection of drama (Davis Microprint 1-4).
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 E435 1985
The English novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles.
2 vols. General editors, Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schowerling. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
V. 1. 1770-1799 -- V. 2. 1800-1829.
Davis Reference PR851 .E64 2000
Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899: An Annotated Biobibliography. Catherine W. Reilly.
London; New York: Mansell, c1994.
Davis Reference Z2014.P7 R453 1994
Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. Compiled by Gwenn Davis and Beverly A. Joyce.
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Davis Reference Z2013.5.W6 D38 1991b
Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. J.R. de J. Jackson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Davis Reference Z2013.5.W6 J33 1993
Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography. Catherine W. Reilly.
London; New York: Mansell, 2000.
Davis Reference PR581 .R45 2000
Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection formed by Robert Lee Wolff.
5 vols. Compiled by Robert Lee Wolff. New York: Garland Pub., 1981-
Davis Reference Z2014.F4 W64 1981
The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. John Sutherland. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1989.
Davis Reference PR871 .S87 1989
Victorian Novels in Serial. J. Don Vann. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1985.
Davis Reference Z2014.F4 V36 1985
IV. E. Nineteenth Century Indexes
The Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985
This is a fully digitized version of the Times (London), 1785-1985. For
the period after 1985, the ASCII text version of the Times is searchable via
Lexis/Nexis Academic.
Article Databases & More
New York Times Historical Newspaper.
NYT Historical provides
full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history
of the newspaper, from 1851 to the recent past.
Article Databases & More
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), Hansard's Debates
(1803-1830), among other 19th centuy collections.
Article Databases & More
Periodicals Index Online (Formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index)
PIO is an electronic keyword index to the contents of several thousand periodicals
in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to the recent past.
Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Every year, PCI adds
records for more than one million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500
journals and fifteen million individual articles.
A major retrospective project. Because there is no subject indexing (keyword title
only), it is problematic for subject searching. Excellent for known authors or
titles. Also indexes a number of magazines & journals included in the Wellesley
Index, below.
Article Databases & More
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. 5 vols. Walter E. Houghton, editor.
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press; [London] Routledge & K. Paul c1966-c1989.
"Tables of contents and identification of contributors with bibliographies of their articles and stories."
Davis Reference Z2005 .H6
Davis Reference Electronic Resources CD-ROM, 10-189
IV. F. Dissertations
Dissertations & Theses.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations, or Dissertations Abstracts, indexes U. S.
dissertations from 1861 to as recent as last semester.
The full text of dissertations done at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill from 1997 on are available for free downloading in PDF format.
The database covers work done at more than a thousand institutions, primarily in
the United States but also in Canada and Great Britain, and at other European universities
for recent years.
Article Databases & More
Dissertations on British History, 1815-1914; an Index to British and American Theses.
By S. Peter Bell. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1974.
Davis Reference Z2016 .B43
Guide to Doctoral Dissertations in Victorian Literature, 1886-1958. Compiled by
Richard D. Altick and William R. Matthews. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1960.
Davis Z2013 .A4
Index to Theses (Universities of Great Britain and Ireland).
This database covers theses and dissertations accepted for higher degrees at
Universities in Great Britain and Ireland, 1970 - present.
Article Databases & More
IV. G. Literary Manuscripts
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
An invaluable index for British manuscripts, not restricted to either literature
or to the 19th century.
Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Editorial board, P.J. Croft, Theodore Hofmann,
and John Horden ; editorial advisors, Rodney G. Dennis and Stephen Parks. London : Mansell ; New York : Bowker, 1980-
V. 4. 1800-1900 / compiled by Barbara Rosenbaum. pt. 2. Hardy - Lamb. p. 3. Landor-Patmore.
Davis Reference Z6611.L7 I5
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
2 vols. Edited by David C. Sutton. London : British Library, 1995.
Davis Reference Z6611.L7 L625 1995
IV. H. Indexes for Art, Music, Philosophy, Religion
Art
For a fuller listing of Art resources like
ARTstor or the
Grove Art Online encyclopedia, conslult the Art Library page.
The principal indexes for secondary art literature are below.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Music
For a fuller listing of Music resources like the
Grove Music Online encyclopedia or the
Classical Music Library (with thousands of licensed recordings), consult the
Music Library page. The principal indexes for secondary music literature are below.
International Index to Music Periodicals
Philosophy
For encylopedic philosophy resources consult either the online
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or the
Encyclopedia of Philosophy in Davis Ref. (10 vols). For primary texts see
Past Masters (below, in Primary Texts). The principal indexes for secondary philosophy literature are immediately below.
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials
Religion
For encyclopedic religion resources consult sources like the
Encyclopedia of Religion (15 vols. & electronic) or, more broadly, the Selected resources in:
Religious Studies. The principal indexes for secondary religious studies literature are immediately below.
RAMBI : Index of articles on Jewish studies
V. Primary Literary & Philosophical Texts
V. A. Multi-Author Collections
UNC-Chapel Hill's Rare Book Collection
UNC's RBC has a number of strong
collections for 19th British literature & history. For detailed information on
book collections and literary manuscripts, please contact Libby Chenault in RBC: rbcref@email.unc.edu
British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions.
At the Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Includes archives for Coleridge, Carroll, Rossetti,
Tennyson, etc.
Literature Online (LION).
LION constitutes a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English language poetry, drama and prose.
It is possible to search the full database, to search for authors individually or collectively, or to search
by movement, time period, etc. It is also possible to search
Individual Collections within LION (e.g., 19th Century Fiction).
Article Databases & More
Past Masters.
A searchable collection of philosophical texts, including the works of Bentham, Darwin, & many others.
Article Databases & More
Victorian Women Writers Project.
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate
transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded
using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the
assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets,
religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Article Databases & More
V. B. Individual Author Collections
The William Blake Archive.
A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Preservation and
Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Sun Microsystems and Inso Corporation. With past support from the Getty Grant Program and the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Editors: Morris Eaves, University of Rochester; Robert Essick, University of California, Riverside; &
Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Salome -- Oscar Wilde.
At the Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia. In addition to the play, has related Wilde
materials.
VI. A. Records of Publication
The English Catalogue of Books [serial]. London : Published for the Publisher's Circular by Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
"Books issued in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." "Supplemented by the annual: English catalogue of books, and by:
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record." A useful but not altogether reliable record of British publishing.
The most complete record for Britsh book publishing for the 19th century is The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) Project, established in 1983.
This is an ongoing project. Duke's Perkins/Bostock Library Reference Dept. has the
NSTC on CD-ROM. Other principal verification tools for 19th century British publishing inlcude the Union Catalogs &
Major Library Catalogs listed below.
Davis Reference Z2001 .E52 1801-1965
The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900.
Not an index, but rather a directory, the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, aims to
be the comprehensive listing of every such publication produced regularly, from
daily to annually, in England during the 19th century. An enormously ambitious project,
it now lists 50,000 titles, including 9,000 facsimile title pages, and 48,000 personal names.
Article Databases & More
VI. B. Union Catalogs & Major Library Catalogs
VI. B. 1. Electronic Catalogs
WorldCat
WorldCat represents the electronic holdings (approximately 60 million records) of several thousand libraries. It is an
indispensable resource for known item verification, as well as for subject searching.
Article Databases & More
The British Library Catalogue
The BLC is one of the world's great library catalogs and central for researching 19th century
Britain. The Integrated Catalogue is fully retrospective and represents serial as
well as mongraphic
holdings. The
BL Manuscripts catalog is also electronically searchable. Finally, the
Nineteenth Century Programme catalogue represents more than 25,000 19th century works available on microfiche.
COPAC
Copac is a union catalogue. It provides FREE access to the merged online catalogues
of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library,
the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell
enedlaethol Cymru. [Source: COPAC website]
Bibliotheque nationale de France
National Library Catalogues Worldwide
Library Servers via WWW
"Updated daily. Libweb currently lists over 7400 pages from libraries in over 125 countries." [Source: website]
VI. B. 2. Print Union Catalogs
CAVEAT: No once source is ever comprehensive. These older print union catalogs still contain records that have
yet to make it into electronic catalogs. Hence, these catalogs below are still used & are
still useful.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints; a Cumulative Author List
Representing Library of Congress Printed cards and Titles Reported by Other American
Libraries. Compiled and edited with the cooperation of the Library of Congress
and the National Union Catalog Subcommittee of the Resources Committee of the
Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. 754 vols.
London: Mansell, 1968-1981.
One of the great bibliographic projects in the pre-digital era. The NUC is a main entry union
catalog of North American library holdings for books printed prior to 1956. Although
much of this material is now in WorldCat, the NUC is still heavily used
for bibliographic verification. Referred to as "the NUC," "the NUC Pre-56," and
sometimes as "Mansell" (the publisher).
Davis Reference Z881.A1 U518
Newspapers in Microform. 3 vols. Washington: The Library.
A union catalog of North American library holdings for domestic and foreign
newpapers on microfilm. (The dates 1948-1983 on the volumes refer to the dates
of the project, not the dates of the newspapers.) Papers for all periods are
included. Referred to as "NIM."
Davis Reference Desk Z6945 .N75
Union List of Serials. 4 vols. Prepared under the sponsorship of the Joint
Committee on the Union List of Serials. Washington: Library of Congress, [1953].
Again, "no one source is comprehensive," so the Union List of Serials is often
still useful. Caveat: older serial titles may be cataloged under Corporate
Author (e.g., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) rather than under
title. Referred to as "ULS." Cutoff date for serials
is 1950. Newer titles are in New Serial Titles ("NST").
Davis Reference Books In Print Stand Z6945 .N44
Union list of Victorian Serials: A Union List of Selected Nineteenth-Century
British Serials Available in United States and Canadian Libraries.
Richard D. Fulton and C.M. Colee, general editors ; editorial board, Christopher C. Dahl ... [et al.].
New York : Garland Pub., 1985.
Holdings should be supplemented with holdings from WorldCat.
Davis Reference Z6956.G6 F85 1985
VII. Literary Web Portals
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
Voice of the Shuttle (Romantics)
Voice of the Shuttle (Victorian)
For Further Assistance Contact:
Tommy Nixon
Davis Library Reference Dept.
962-1151
tommy_nixon@unc.edu