English 330:  Eighteenth-Century Literature  

 

University of Warwick, 2017-2018

 

            

 

Welcome to the WIKI for EN330.  Here is an alphabetical list of the topics created in since 2013:

 

Air Balloon

Alchemy

Angels

Aprons

Assembly Rooms

Banknotes

Beds

Bed Curtains

Beer

Bleaching

Bloodletting

Boxing

Breeches

Buttons

Candles

Cards

Carriages

Cats

Chocolate

Chronometer

Cinnamon

Clocks

Coffee

Coffeehouse

Coiffure

Comb

Conduct Books

Cordial

Corsets

Cosmetics

Daggers

Dogs

Dolls

Doors

Earrings

Elephants

Elopement

Enclosures

Eroticised Spanking

False Teeth

Fans

Fireworks

Flutes

Forceps

Fox Hunting

Furniture

Gardens and Gardening

Gin

Gloves

Hair

Handkerchief

Hardtack

Hats

Highwaymen

Horns

Horses

Ink

Ketchup

Lapdogs

Laudanum

Letter writing

Library

Lion

Lockets

Madhouses

Make-Up

Masquerades

Menstruation

Mirrors

Newspaper(s)

Oranges

Outrage

Panada

Paper

Parasol

Patches

Pen

Perfumes

Petticoat

Pianoforte

Pillories

Pineapples

Pin-money

Pistol

Pocket Watches

Poison(s)

Pompadour

Porcelain

Portmanteau

Puppet Shows

Quackery

Recipes

Ribbons

Rings

Rosary Beads

Rouge

Rum

Salamanders

Sandwiches

Saucebox

Seals

Scalpel

Scarves

Shoe Buckle

Side-saddle

Silk

Smallpox

Smelling Salts

Snuff Boxes

Spaniels

Spectacles and Eyeglasses

Spinning

Stockings

Streetwalking

Sugar

Syphilis 

Tea

Teacup

Textile production

Thermometer

Tobacco

Toilette

Tweezers

Veils

Waistcoat

Waste land

Weddings

Whipping

Whist

Wigs

Windows

Wine

Wit

Witchcraft

 

 

Here on this front page you will find links to the resources that will help you build these pages.  For more extensive guidelines, see the link below: 

 

Assignment Guidelines

 

Resources

(NB: you will need to be logged on to Warwick to use most of these links)

Top tips for searching:

 

Use appropriate search terms for primary sources: remember to search primary sources with language in use at the time the texts were created. Check the OED (linked below) to see when particular terms were used, and find variant spellings and forms (the historical thesaurus in the OED can also be very helpful for this).

Use advanced search where it is offered: this allows you to combine your terms more easily and limit where the database searches, e.g. in the subject description or title, rather than the full text, if you are overwhelmed with results. Most usefully, it also allows you to specify the time period you want to search.

 

Here are some prompts to help you as you go through the research process: EN330 Searching primary source materials for the Wiki project.docx

Here are some guides to choosing and combining search terms when searching: Choosing your search terms EN330.docx Combining your search terms EN330.docx

 

Dictionaries and Reference Works

Oxford English Dictionary

http://0-www.oed.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/

 

Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (in print: PE1620.J6)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2199895

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk

 

Historical currency converter

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/default0.asp#mid 

 

Primary Literary Texts

Literature Online (LION)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1000056

 

Primary Source Databases

Historical Texts (note that this searches texts from 1400s to 1900, so you need to specify a date limit):

http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=e1000775~S1 

 

Gale Primary Sources - newspapers, magazines and some books from 17th-21st centuries (use date limits)

http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=e1001167~S1

 

British Periodicals - newspapers and magazines from 17th -20th centuries (use date limits)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1000467

 

ArtStor - images database, with information needed to cite correctly (use date limits)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1001025

 

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers:

http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/start.do?prodId=BBCN&userGroupName=warwick

 

Reading Experience Database:

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/

 

Criminal Trials and Confessions of the Old Bailey

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Ordinarys-accounts.jsp

Also dramatised as "Voices from The Old Bailey"

on Radio 4, and available via Box of Broadcasts:

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1001068

 

Defining Gender, 1450-1910 

http://0-www.gender.amdigital.co.uk.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/index.aspx

 

Eighteenth-Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c. 1685-1735

http://0-www.18thcjournals.amdigital.co.uk.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/index.aspx

 

Empire Online

http://0-www.empire.amdigital.co.uk.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk

 

Explore the British Museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore.aspx 

 

Secondary Sources for historical context

Library Search

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk

 

Cambridge Companions (authoritative, introductory subject guides)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1000407

 

Oxford Handbooks (subject-based research reviews)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1000750

 

Cambridge Histories Online

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Re1000672

 

MLA International Bibliography

http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=e1000257~S1

 

Help

If you would like any help finding primary or secondary sources, or using the databases listed above, please contact Kate Courage, the Academic Support Librarian for English:

kate.courage@warwick.ac.uk

02476 (5)28151