Primary Literature Databases through Watzek
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowEEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowECCO delivers the full-text and page images of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window19th Century Collections Online is an archival collection of including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages.
- Naxos Spoken Word Library This link opens in a new windowAudio files of literature and poetry ranging from medieval times to the twentieth century, and an expanding range of non-fiction.
Digital Texts Projects
- Modernist Journals Project"High-quality digital scans and metadata of periodicals published from 1890 to 1922," including Crisis, The Egoist, The Little Review, The Masses, McClure's Magazine, Poetry, Scribner's Magazine, and the Imagist anthologies. Its 1910 Collection makes available single issues of 24 magazines published late in that year.
- Middle English Texts SeriesDigital texts published for The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS).
- Project GutenbergMostly older content from books no longer in copyright. To browse, select Book Categories.
Author-Specific Digital Projects
To search for similar projects on other authors, a Google search of the author's name combined with "digital collection" is a good place to start. Please do not hesitate to ask Erica for help!
- Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital EditionA joint project of the University of Oxford and Kings College London that "gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand." Manuscripts include the juvenilia and Lady Susan (fair copies) as well as The Watsons, Persuasion, and Sanditon (working drafts).
- John Keats Collection, Houghton Library (Harvard University)Digital materials include images autograph letters by John Keats as well as several poems.
- James Joyce Digital ArchiveA digital archive in two sections, corresponding to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
- Woolf OnlineA digital archive of To The Lighthouse, including images of manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library as well as transcriptions of relevant letters, diary entries, reviews, and related essays by Woolf.
- Mark Twain Project OnlineA project out of the University of California Berkeley's Bancroft Library to provide "unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents" of Mark Twain. Online critical editions with extensive annotations are available for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the autobiography, with more works forthcoming.
- Emily Dickinson ArchiveThe project "makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives."
- Walt Whitman ArchivePublished works, including multiple editions of Leaves of Grass, manuscripts, contemporary reviews, audiovisual sources, and much more.
