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The Long Nineteenth Century

MLA 102 - Fall 2013 - Instructor: Paulson, L.
Last Updated: 11-Aug-2015

A guide to resources for MLA 102: The Long Nineteenth Century: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies. Required of second-year MLA students.

This course will focus on the historical, literary, artistic, and philosophical issues raised during the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). Readings and assignments will include Austen, Mozart, Burke, Schubert, Mary Shelley, Mill, Marx, Dickens, Darwin, Freud, and Woolf, as well as selected poetry and critical writings. The course will culminate in a research paper and a presentation of each student's findings. 

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Databases - nineteenth century

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  1. 19th century British Library newspapers [electronic resource].

    Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. T...

  2. 19th century masterfile [electronic resource].

    Indexes nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.

  3. 19th century UK periodicals [electronic resource].

    This database contains 2.1 million pages of periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900. It includes publications on women, chi...

  4. 19th century U.S. newspapers [electronic resource].

    Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertis...

  5. African-American poetry [electronic resource].

    "The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1...

  6. Africa-wide: NiPAD [electronic resource]

    This database provides users with access to more than two million records, including South Africa studies and African studies and a numbe...

  7. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection [electronic resource].

    Index and full text of historical American periodicals held by the American Antiquarian Society. The completed collection will cover a wi...

  8. American periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries [electronic resource].

    American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries is a full-text electronic resource containing full-color scans of original pr...

  9. C19, the nineteenth century index [electronic resource].

    C19 indexes publications of the Anglo-American World, 1790-1919. Collections expand with each release of the database. You may search the...

  10. Connected histories

    "Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single fe...

  11. The Dolley Madison digital edition [electronic resource] : letters 1788-June 1836

    edited by Holly C. Shulman. 2004

    Dolley Payne Madison was the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. The DMDE will be the first-ever complete edition of all...

  12. Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) [electronic resource].

    Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) prov...

  13. English poetry [electronic resource].

    The works of more than 1,250 poets from 600 to 1900, in essence, a database of the complete English poetic canon from Anglo-Saxon times t...

  14. Index to nineteenth century American art periodicals

    Mary Morris Schmidt. 1999

  15. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library [electronic resource].

    The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 11 million documents (60+ million pages) created by major tobacco companie...

  16. Literary manuscripts [electronic resource] : Victorian manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library

    The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the und...

  17. Literature online [electronic resource].
  18. Making of America. [Cornell University Collection] [electronic resource].

    Digital versions of selections from Cornell University Library's collection. Features monograph volumes and journal articles published in...

  19. Making of America. [University of Michigan Collection] [electronic resource].

    Digital versions of selections from University of Michigan Library's collection. Features monograph volumes and journal articles publishe...

  20. The making of modern law. Legal treatises 1800-1926 [electronic resource].

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