Resources

Tools

Materials

External 18th-century resources

Societies
- International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies with links to national, regional, and associated societies, and the ISECS-direct membership database
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Networks
- 18thConnect, a collaborative online research environment for scholar s working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighteenth century (1660-1800)
- RECSO: Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford, English Faculty, University of Oxford
- The 18th-Century Common, a public space for sharing the research of scholars who study eighteenth-century cultures with nonacademic readers
Directories
- Eighteenth-Century Resources maintained by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
- English Literature: Restoration & 18th-century at Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB
- C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines at Penn State
- Calls For Papers: Eighteenth Century at the University of Pennsylvania
Digital repositories
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) from Gale and ECCO-TCP at the University of Michigan (subscription required)
- Electronic Enlightenment digital correspondence project, University of Oxford (subscription required)
- Romantic Circles, ed. by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer, published by the University of Maryland
- Digital Miscellanies Index, an online database of the 1,000 poetic miscellanies published over the course of the eighteenth century, at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- vd18: a collaborative DFG-funded digital library of books printed in German-speaking countries in the eighteenth-century, hosted by SUB Göttingen
Exhibitions
- Georgians Revealed exhibition at the British Library
- Locating London's Past, a searchable GIS-compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map
Anthologies
- English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, selected and edited with an introduction by Ernest Bernbaum. Online at Project Gutenberg
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, in 18 volumes, ed. by A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller et al. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Cambridge, England: CUP, 1907-21: Volume IX: English "From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift", Volume X: English "The Age of Johnson", Volume XI: English "The Period of the French Revolution", at Bartleby Great Books Online
- The Harvard Classics, in 51 volumes, ed. by Charles W. Eliot. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909: Volume 40: English Poetry (Vol. I): "From Chaucer t o Gray" and Volume 41: English Poetry (Vol. II): "From Collins to Fitzgerald", at the Internet Archive
- English Literature: Restoration and 18th-Century (1660-1785) in Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature, ed. by Anniina Jokinen
- Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830, ed. by David H. Radcliffe, Virginia Tech
Arts
- The Sister Arts: British Gardening, Painting, & Poetry 1700-1832, ed. by Lisa L. Moore, The University of Texas at Austin
Bibliographies
- Restoration and 18th-century English poetry bibliography [DOCX], part of A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology by José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain
- 18th Century Bibliography, ed. by Ian Franklin, South East Essex College of Arts and Technology, Southend
Encyclopaedias
- 18th Century Online Encyclopedia: Enlightenment and Revolution, ed. by Kevin D. Dodson, Lamar University and Guy Toubiana, The Citadel
Chronologies
- Synopsis of British Literature and Culture 1000-2000, ed. by Hartmut Ilsemann, Englisches Seminar, Universität Hannover, 1994. Extract for the "long 18th century" (roughly 1660-1830) kindly provided by and used with permission of the author. Each page of the survey covers 20 years: 1660-1679, 1680-1699, 1700-1719, 1720-1739, 1740-1759, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839. [PDFs]
- Literature in Context: A Chronology, c. 1660-1825 [PDF], part of the printed guide to Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge, published on microfilm by Adam Matthew Publications Ltd.
- A Time-Line of English Poetry: Early Modern English: Augustans (1667-1780) from Representative Poetry On-line, ed. by Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto
- Eighteenth-Century Chronology (1660-1800) by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
- 18th-Century chronology (1700-1784) from the Romantic Chronology, ed. by Alan Liu, UCSB, and Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University
- Chronology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries at the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
- 18th century from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Blogs/Podcasts
- 18th Century Blog in Literature Compass from Blackwell Publishing
- The Long Eighteenth, 18th-century blog, Carrie Shanafelt, City University of New York, and David Mazella, University of Houston
- Textual Studies, 1500-1800, early modern textual studies blog, Kevin Curran, University of North Texas
- Early Modern Online Bibliography blog, Anna Battigelli, SUNY Plattsburgh, and Eleanor Shevlin, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- Persistent Enlightenment, a blog about the Enlightenment, considered both as an historical period and as an ongoing project
- History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems, a podcast series offering an alternative history of the eighteenth century in ten poems that illustrate the everyday and the extraordinary, the comic and the serious aspects of the period, at the University of Oxford