Key Databases
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography is the core database for English language and literature.
- Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis Literary Sources) This link opens in a new windowIndexes over a million full-text articles from scholarly journals & literary magazines, critical essays, topic overviews, biographies, & more.
- JSTOR Collection This link opens in a new windowIn addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London). - 19th Century British Newspapers This link opens in a new windowNational, regional and local British newspapers from the holdings of the British Library. Includes the full text of 71 newspapers, totalling over 3 million pages.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.
Journals
Here are also a few journals that are specifically related to Victorian culture and literature and may be useful:
- English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
- Gothic Studies
- Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
- Romanticism on the Net
- Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Victorian Review
- Victorian Studies