English 310: Victorian Period
Research Guide
Contact: Jeanne Armstrong
FINDING PRIMARY SOURCES
LIBRARY CATALOG
The library owns the Library of English Literature, which contains microfiche reproductions of 19th century books, for example, The Zincali or an account of the gypsies of Spain. Various topics such as Ireland or conduct can be searched as keywords in combination with the phrase, Library of English Literature.
Certain topics such as conduct manuals are searched under headings such as "women-conduct of life" or "etiquette for men" and these subject heading searches can be repeated in Summit.
LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
This microfiche collection is located in the microform room with call numbers PR1101.L5 LEL followed by item number from the catalog.
The Microbook library of English literature PR1101 L52 Index (reference and microform room)
NINETEENTH CENTURY NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
The Times (London, England) [microfilm] Wilson 2 West AN4 .T54 1785-
Internet Library of Early Journals Digital library of 18th and 19th century journals
Nineteenth century readers' guide to periodical literature, 1890-1899 Reference AI3 .N714 1944 2 vols.
Palmer's index to the Times newspaper Wilson 2 West Microform Index AI21 .T464 (1796-1905)
Poole's index to periodical literature Reference AI3.P7 (1802-1906)
Punch (1858-1870) Wilson 2W Microfilm AP101.P8
Punch (1886-1891 random issues) Wilson 2W Special Collections AP101.P8
Victorian periodicals: a guide to research Reference PN5124.P4 V5 2 vols.
The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, (1824-1900) Reference AI3.W4 5 vols. guide to holdings at WWU
FINDING CONTEXT
REFERENCE BOOKS HAGGARD 2
A companion to Victorian literature & culture Reference PR461 .C597 1999
The 1890s : an encyclopedia of British literature, art, and culture Reference DA560 .A18 1993
Victorian Britain : an encyclopedia Reference DA550 .V53 1988
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist: the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England Reference PR468.S6 P66 1993
DATABASES
MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
Oxford Reference Online - select "Literature"
Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
WEBSITES
Costumer's manifesto-Victorian
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (online journal)
Irish Famine online primary sources
Literary Resources Victorian-Jack Lynch at Rutgers
Punch Cartoons-Victorian and Late Edwardian
Victoria Research Web (much information including annotated websites and digital collections)
Victorian Literary Studies Archive Mitsuharu Matsuoka