Research Guides @ Fordham: English and American Literature: Pre-1800 Literature

Browsing Pre-1800 Literature

To browse the library's holdings, use the Library of Congress Classification Outline as a starting point.

PN611-649 Literary History, Ancient
PN661-694 Literary History, Medieval (to 1500)
PN683-687 Literary History, Legends
PN688-691 Literary History, Poetry
PN692-693 Literary History, Prose. Prose fiction
PN695-779 Literary History, Modern
PN715-749 Literary History, Renaissance (1500-1700)

Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey Online
Full text of articles from Shakespeare Survey, an annual journal published since 1948.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2011. From Oxford University Press. Note for remote access: after reaching the homepage, click on the (?) in the upper right corner to make sure you see "Welcome, Fordham University"

Click on the "Search and Browse" link to begin your search.
Folger Digital Texts: Shakespeare's Plays, Sonnets and Poems
Folger Shakespeare Library, home of the world's largest and finest Shakespeare collection, offers high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems.
BBC Shakespeare Plays
Videos of 37 Shakespeare plays from Ambrose Digital Publishing.

Recent Books

British Literature, 1640-1789: Keywords by Robert DeMaria
Call Number: (RH) PR433 .D46 2018
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century by Katrina O'Loughlin
Call Number: (RH) PR756.T72 O46 2018
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies by Bryce Traister
Call Number: (LC) PS153.P87 A44 2017
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697-189 by Sandra Wilson Smith
Call Number: (RH) PS374.H47 S65 2018
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2018.

Pre-1800 Texts

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full text of 180,000 books published from 1700 to 1799. Transitioning to a new platform. Not all Browse functions working.
Early English Books Online, 1473-1700
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains more than 125,000 books and pamphlets printed in English.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans Digital Edition
From Readex. Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries from the bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.
Parker Library on the Web
Manuscripts and documents spanning the sixth-century Gospels of St. Augustine to sixteenth-century records of the English Reformation digitized from Matthew Parker’s Library at Corpus Christi College.

Includes the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), unique copies of Old English poems and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. The Parker Library also contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles.

English and American Literature: Pre-1800 Literature

Browsing Pre-1800 Literature

Shakespeare

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Pre-1800 Texts

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