English & American Literature : Medieval-18th Century

(University of Rochester Robbins Library Digital Text Projects). Online full text of Middle English works, with glosses and notes.

Part of the Middle English Compendium. Collection of Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, as well as works created specifically for the Corpus by the Humanities Text Initiative.

Portal and research environment devoted to digital projects concerning the Middle Ages. Many primary texts and images are accessible by subject, author, and other categories. Use the Advanced Search to refine by format, discipline, genre, etc.

Anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th Century, Restoration and 18th Century. Includes sections on medieval drama and Renaissance drama.

Publishes electronic scholarly annotated editions of early English drama and texts of related interest, from late medieval moralities and Tudor interludes, occasional entertainments and civic pageants, academic and closet drama, and the plays of the commercial London theaters, through to the drama of the Civil War and Interregnum.

Features transcribed primary and secondary sources from the early modern period. Literature is defined broadly.

Searchable texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, English titles printed between 1701 and 1800. Images are not included.

This digital initiative of the UCal-Davis is a collection of electronic text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.

Large collection of historical British travel writing from 12th-19th centuries.

Collaborative project of Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford. Digitized substantial runs of six 18th and 19th century journals, covering a ten or twenty run from each. Browse or search the journals. This is an archive of the website, which was last updated in 1999.

This resource is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the University of Maryland.

Supported by the American Antiquarian Society and Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life, this website provides a body of publicly available scholarly transcriptions of early texts.