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Course Material

Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.

To find recommended reading in the Short Loan Collection, select the Course Material search. Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box, and highlight the course name. Click search.

Course readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.

english literature 18th century history and criticism
english fiction 18th century history and criticism
women and literature great britain history 18th century
women and literature england history 18th century
literature and society great britain history 18th century
literature and society england history 18th century
nationalism and literature great britain history 18th century

Use these links to find books on topics related to the literature of the period:

great britain social life and customs 18th century
england social life and customs 18th century
great britain social conditions 18th century
england social conditions 18th century
great britain intellectual life 18th century
england intellectual life 18th century
aesthetics british 18th century
great britain colonies history 18th century

Author's names can be used as Subject Headings to find books about them and their work, provided they are well know enough to have full length book studies written about them. For less well known authors, search one of the databases below

Look for the sub-division "criticism and interpretation"

swift jonathan
wollstonecraft mary
pope alexander
smollett tobias
wordsworth william
coleridge samuel taylor

Dickinson, H. T., ed. A companion to eighteenth-century Britain. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2002.
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Keeran, Peggy, and Jennifer Bowers. Literary research and the British romantic era : strategies and sources. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
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Richette, John, ed. The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Roe, Nicholas, ed. Romanticism : an Oxford guide. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Wall, Cynthia, ed. A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. They are available online via the Cambridge Collections Online, and many are also available in print. In addition to linking to individual Companions below you can search across all titles within the collection, using the title of a novel, a name, or topic as a search term.

Clingham, Greg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Fox, Christopher. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Gill, Stephen Charles, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Maxwell, Richard, and Katie Trumpener, eds. The Cambridge companion to fiction in the Romantic period. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Newlyn, Lucy, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Rogers, Pat, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
e-book

Sitter, John E, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
print | e-book

Find Articles
For help with using databases, please contact the Subject Librarian

The following databases will provide references to material on all authors and topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases.

ABELL+FT - indexes articles in scholarly journals, chapters in books, and books. Many articles are full text. Where full text is unavailable in the database, use the

link to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager record.

MLA International Bibliography - the major resource for research in English language and literature. It indexes articles in scholarly journals, chapters in books, books and websites. Where full text is unavailable in the database, use the

link to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager record.

Internet Resources

You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these internet sites.

Luminarium - English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Centrury 1660-1785.

The Romantic Period - from Norton Topics Online. Use the panel in the left side-bar to navigate.