English Literature

Use this database--previously called 19th Century Masterfile--to search one or more indexes for 19th Century periodicals and documents ranging, depending on the index, from 1774 to 1920. For literature, you can focus on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906),which contains more than 500,000 records. When you search Poole's, the computer breaks down the results so you can what magazines provide full-text articles on your subject. Other indexes deal with law, psychology, government documents, patents and science.

Edited by Walter E. Houghton.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966-1989.
Browse the tables of contents for issues from 43 major nineteenth-century British monthlies and quarterlies in the first four volumes in this series. Organized by periodicals (such as The Cornhill Magazine, The Edinburgh Review and Bentley's Miscelllany), the Wellesley Index provides historical information about the periodical at the beginning of each listing, as well as article titles, authors, years, and volume and page numbers in each issue's table of contents. Each volume includes indexes for the authors, pseudonyms and initials, abbreviations, and short titles referred to in that volume. By contrast, the fifth volume consists of the same indexes for the whole set (volumes I-IV). One marvelous thing about this resource is it gives you a snappy, but telling, idea of what 19th Century writers and readers were thinking and arguing about.