Seventeenth/eighteenth - century Studies

Seventeenth/Eighteenth - Century Studies (Interdisciplinary)

Note: most of these links contain information that pertains to the mid-seventeenth century through the early eighteenth century.

All of the following sites have been evaluated and included on the basis of their scholarly and professional content. The list is a work in progress and will be expanded and developed over the next few months. Ultimately, I hope to include a wide-ranging series of research and archival material for studies that cross multiple linguistic and disciplinary borders. If you know of sites or web resources you think should be included, please email me with the complete URL and a brief annotation.

The Center for Early Modern Studies at University of California, Los Angeles
The Voice of the Shuttle : a humanities search engine at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Folger Institute and Library and museum
J Lynch's outstanding and extensive listing for 18th-century english resources
Listing of professional resources for studies of the 18th century
The Society for Eighteenth Century Studies: WSECS
Project Muse provides access to scholarly books and journals on-line
The Aphra Behn society supports research and scholarship that features women and gender in the early modern period
Excellent general resource for the eighteenth century (from CMU)

The Luminarium project offers an excellent collection of English 17th-century literature , and an additional resource which includes, baroque art/furniture/architecture, and other visual and textual source materials

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University

Milton reading room (an exceptional site. Includes virtual reproductions of frontispieces, multiple editions of Paradise Lost, among an extensive collection of Milton's writings and Miltonic criticism; at Dartmouth U.)

The voice of the shuttle collection for earlier material: 17th century and Renaissance (English, primarily)
French Enlightenment culture in painting (available in French or English -- conversion at site)
This site offers on-line access to early english journals (scanned original/archive documents -- at Bodley)
Select early newspaper reports (actual early editions (scanned). Includes such events as the London Fire, 1666 described in the London Gazette; Drake versus the Armada, 1588).
Early American Studies (includes *text-only* facsimiles of early documents)
From the University of California, Irvine, Society for Early American Studies (contains a link to a good resource for early Native American studies)
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (contains links to many other 18thc. society home sites -- Ibero Studies, French, Spanish societies)
An excellent resource for 17th - 18th c. French Studies (Jack Iverson's Page, faculty member at University of Missouri)

The Medici Project (from John Hopkins University, an archive resource. Contains an entire archive on 16th/17th c. Jewish culture from the Medici collection)

Early English documents: eurodocs (primarily Western Europe)
e-texts on-line from the University of Virginia (extensive; multiple languages, including Chinese and Japanese)
Early Modern Dictionaries database (multiple dictionaries; searchable database)

A developing project that will result in a manuscript guide to 400 collections of early modern women writers: Perdita

A list to some good literary links on the 18th-century. From Bedford-St.Martins.
Maintained by a high school teacher in Oregon, this site offers an extensive listing of 17th-century and 18thc. e-texts.
From Open Texts archive, an incredibly extensive listing of electronic texts available on-line, including the Gutenberg Project

Two extensive e-text resources on the 18th-century:
Restoration Literature
Early Modern Literature at Hanover
A course homepage by Ann Jessie Van Sant at UCI: this classlinks page offers links to various 18th-century resources, with an emphasis on women and the 18th-century novel

E-early modern links from UC Santa Barbara.
C-18 discussion list compilation of new notable articles and texts: vol.72
C-18 discussion list: printed sources of the 1990s: recent studies of women writers, readers, publishers
C-18 discussion list: compilation of selected readings no. 74
The Belfast Newsletter (Northern Ireland): 1737-1800
Early Modern Studies Program at Claremont Graduate School (in CA)

A new resource for Restoration literature, art, and culture, featuring e-text versions of playwrights (by Lynn Eckersley)
Bernd Krysmanski's extensive collection of materials on William Hogarth (includes bibliographies)

This site is updated regularly. New links will be added periodically.

If you have a link/site/page to contribute to this project, please send me the URL and a brief abstract: Email Jen Boyle