British Isles Online Primary Resources: "Books"

600-1900The Database consists of the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900. Certain categories of material have been excluded from the database: translations into English verse after 1800, works in languages other than English, verse drama intended for the stage, and poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies.

[1100-1500]Full text of selected Middle English prose and verse.

Late 13thc. -early 20th c. English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas. In addition to works by major dramatists such as Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge, English Drama includes the dramatic writings of many more neglected writers long inaccessible in print form. A full list of works included in the collection is given in the bibliography.

Late 13thc.-end 19thc. English Verse Drama contains the full text of more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.

1450-1910 Defining Gender, 1450-1910 provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

1470s-1700 EEBO, Early English Books Online, provides digital access to citations and facsimile full texts made from several microfilm sets. The works included were printed in England or other English-speaking places. The database may be searched by author, title, keywords, L.C. subject headings, imprint, date, type of illustration, film reel ID number, STC number, source library, language, or combination of these. There are browse indexes for authors' names, titles, and subject headings. Use these for best retrieval.Some of the full text items in EEBO have been marked up so as to be searchable by individual words in their texts by the TCP, Text Creation Partnership Project, at the University of Michigan, which is supported by M.S.U. and other libraries. See the next entry in this guide for the link to EEBO TCP. Here it is possible to enter modern spellings of words and retrieve words from ye olden days.Not every item for which bibliographical details are present in EEBO has full text available here. In these cases, one must use the microfilm reel referred to in the entry by reel and position number. M.S.U. Libraries has the three microfilm sets mentioned: STC I, STC II, and the Thomason Tracts.STC I (this is the call number) contains items printed up through 1640.STC II (this is the call number) contains items printed from 1641-1700.14458 (this is the call number) contains items in the Thomason Tracts, a set of broadsides from the English Civil War, 1640-1660.Go to the Copy Center/Microforms unit on 2nd floor west wing.ESTC is a publicly available online bibliographical database containing library locations for the actual early printed works from the 1470s to 1800; see the entry for this below in this guide.These are the printed bibliographies from which the film sets were made:Pollard and Redgrave, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, Main Z 2002 .A27 and oversize Z 2002 .A27 1976.Wing, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700, Microcopy guides Z 2002 .W52 and Main Z 2002 .W52 1994.Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661..., Main Z 2018 .T49 1981.For help using EEBO contact Agnes Widder, widder@msu.edu.

1470s-1700 PhiloLogic is the software developed at University of Chicago initially for use with ARTFL, a full-text database of French literature texts (offered here at M.S.U., see under 'A' in our electronic resources). The PhiloLogic system has been extended to other textual databases developed at academic and now commercial institutions, including EEBO. Entering EEBO using PhiloLogic to search for bibliographic records by author, title, etc. in which word searches within a text are not needed is also possible here. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership is creating 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files. The purpose of Early English Books Online is to provide electronic versions of texts written in English or published/printed in English-speaking places from the beginning of printing, 1473, to 1700. Works initially written prior to 1470 often had their first printed versions during this time period.

1450-1945 The Making of the Modern World: Part I, The Goldsmiths’-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 offers new ways of understanding the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism, supporting research in variety of disciplines.

The Making of the Modern World: Part II, 1851-1914 traces the progress of the 19th century nations' rapidly changing economies.

The Making of the Modern World: Part III, 1890-1945 is comprised exclusively of monographs and periodicals in the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature, which is held at the Senate House Library of the University of London, offering transnational coverage in an area of vital interest to historians—political economy. The works included are of interest to scholars in European and world history and meet the desire for more twentieth century content taking the collection past the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War.

1500-1700 The texts of Early English Prose Fiction are essential to understand the development of narrative in English. What came to be recognised as the dominant characteristic of English fiction, realism, was only one of a rich diversity of approaches in fiction?s early years. The collection shows the evolution of English prose, covering the change from a predominantly oral culture, where prose fiction can be understood as "written speech", to a literary culture dependent on strictly literary conventions...

1700-1900 This is a portal to Gale's primary source material which permits cross-searching between collections. At present, ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and NCCO (Nineteenth Century Collections Online) are included. ECCO and NCCO are described below in this list.

1700-1800 Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contains digital versions of 150,000 works published or printed from 1701-1800 in England, and other English-speaking places around the world (including the rest of the British Isles, the American colonies, and the early United States). Look here to find full texts of primary source materials in history, geography, literature, language, religion, philosophy, social science, fine arts, music, architecture, medicine, science, technology, and law, as well as general reference works from the 18th century. The database also includes works in other western European languages which were published or printed in England or other English-speaking places during this time. We own most of the microfilm this set is based on, set #17435, in Microforms/Copy Center, 2nd floor West wing; the entries in ECCO provide the film reel number and position number on the reel.

1700-1780 Eighteenth-Century Fiction brings together 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles.

19thc. Includes these Archives:Archive 1: British Politics and Society Archive 2: Asia and the West: Diplomacy & Cultural Exchange Archive 3: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Proper Culture Archive 4: European Literature, 1700-1840: The Corvey Collection Archive 5: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest Archive 6: Photography: The World through the Lens, 1839-1939Archive 7: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 Archive 8: Women: Transnational Networks Archive 9: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II Archive 10: Children's Literature and Childhood Archive 11: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature Archive 12: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform

1782-1903 A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.

1850-1975 Provides primary source information on the popular culture of the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975. Original archival material from libraries, including manuscripts, typescripts, and ephemera, as well as video clips, are included. Includes new content for 2013 on popular entertainment, mass media and consumer culture.

1900-present A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

1890s-present Twentieth-Century Drama contains 2,100 plays in English from around the world, published from the 1890s to present day. Unlike other drama collections available today, it presents a global, inclusive collection of the most important plays written in the English language from all over the world, highlighting many nationalities and ethnicities, and offering the most and useful complete picture of twentieth century drama. It contains mostly copyright texts unavailable elsewhere in electronic form, including many out-of-print works that are difficult to obtain.