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These databases are very useful for finding original texts. Search for the title of the book, the author, and/or a keyword. Some databases also let you browse by time period or genre.
These databases will be useful when searching for literary criticism and secondary research related to the time period or historical movement.
The following is a small selection of interesting titles. Use the Library Catalog to search the full collection.
Try the Subject Heading English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Otherworlds: fantasy and history in medieval literature by 
The Claims of Poverty: literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England by 
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature by 
Animal Encounters: contacts and concepts in medieval Britain by The following is a small selection of interesting titles. Use the Library Catalog to search the full collection.
Try the Subject Heading English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
A Short History of Early Modern England: British literature in context by 
Genre in English literature, 1650-1700 : transitions in drama and fiction by 
The Other Exchange: women, servants, and the urban underclass in early modern English literature by 
Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: writing women in England, 1500-1700 by 
The Early Modern Englishwoman : a facsimile library of essential works. Part 1, Printed writings, 1500-1640 by 
The Renaissance Text: theory, editing, textuality by The following is a small selection of interesting titles. Use the Library Catalog to search the full collection.
Try the Subject Heading English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Romantic Globalism: British literature and modern world order, 1750-1830 by 
The experimental imagination : literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment by 
Distraction: problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature by 
Questioning Nature: British women's scientific writing and literary originality 1750-1830 by 
Spectacular Suffering: witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic by 
The Little Everyman: stature and masculinity in eighteenth-century English literature by 
Monstrous Motherhood: eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity by 
Secret Sexualities: a sourcebook of 17th and 18th century writing by 
