English Language & Literature
Provides selected sources and useful research-related sites in the field of English language and literature.
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18th Century Resources
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Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineIncludes significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 & Series I: SupplementPage images and searchable full-text of Early American Imprints, Series I Evans & Series I Supplement.
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American Broadsides and Ephemera 1749-1900Over 30,000 broadsides and ephemeral publications.
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Empire OnlineOver 60,000 images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
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English Short Title Catalogue (British Library)A comprehensive, international union catalog listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801.
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Literary Manuscripts Leeds190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English LanguageIncludes the full text of both the 1755 and the 1773 editions of A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
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Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the StageBritish plays licensed between 1737 and 1824 as well as documents that provide their social context.
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Eighteenth-Century Book TrackerThis site indexes freely-available digital facsimiles of eighteenth-century texts and cross-references them to standard bibliographical reference sources.
Last Updated: Dec 2, 2025 10:21 AM
Subjects: Humanities
Tags: comp, composition, controversies, drama, fiction