Library Guides: 19th-Century Studies: Overview

Background

This guide focuses on Anglophone nineteenth-century resources. For broader research journals and databases -- which also cover the nineteenth-century -- patrons should consult the "Literary Research Strategy" guide. Since writers and literary movements cross convenient time boundaries, the guides to adjacent time periods may also prove helpful.

Related library guides:

Literary Research Strategy -- the go-to, first-step guide for performing literary research in any time-period or field of literature.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Twentieth-Century Studies PENDING

Special Collections

19th-Century Publications in Hesburgh's Rare Books and Special Collections
Catalog search for English-language items published between 1800 and 1900 in RBSC.

Archive Finder This link opens in a new window

ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid covers over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

Scholary Publications

Oxford bibliographies online. Victorian literature This link opens in a new window
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the literature of the Victorian period, which encompasses the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.

RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net)
"An international, open access journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature"
Romanticism
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (SEL)
Studies in Romanticism
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Review
Victorians Institute Journal
Victorian Studies