This guide will help you locate resources for the study of Victorian literature. The emphasis is on material available in the University of Maryland Libraries, but some Internet sources are also included.
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Includes licensed and recommended free databases, journal indexing and abstracting services, primary source databases, and full-text reference resources. Licensed databases must be used on-site at the Library of Congress.
A full text collection of thousands of works of poetry, drama, and prose written in the English language from the 8th century to the present with complementary criticism and reference resources.
The Making of the Modern World covers the history of European political economy from the 1450s onward. It traces the development of nations, capital, global trade, empire, industrialization, and corporations. It also covers the rise of the modern labor movement, slavery and abolition, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, and gender. It features rare books, monographs, reports, correspondence, speeches, surveys, and other primary source materials. The collection also captures non-mainstream materials including pamphlets, flyers, broadsheets, and other ephemera that are rarely preserved in libraries.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a growing collection of archives which brings together rare primary source materials monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more from the long nineteenth century (1789-1914.) UMD has access to archives 1-12.
A collection of full-text humanities works in scholarly editions. It contains the works, correspondence, notebooks, diaries, journals, and memoirs of many major literary authors, philosophers and other intellectuals.