A brief and partial list of scholarly resources for Victorianists at Indiana University
The most important local research resources are the reference librarians at the Main Library: Angela Courtney for English Literature (10th Floor), and Celestina Wroth for History (5th Floor). They are eager to help and very approachable. Usually, speaking with them will be more efficient than searching blindly on your own. Here is Ms. Wroth's page and here is Ms. Courtney's page for Victorianists (under construction).
Electronic
Local Resources
The Victorian Studies Webpage gives details about the VS Program
The Victorian Graduate Studies at Indiana University webpage describes the Dissertation Reading Group and give instructions for joining the IU Victorianist e-mail list, victgrads
General Resources
The Database Page for the IU Library lists all databases available here.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile compiles several indices for nineteenth-century primary materials, including Poole’s index to periodical literature.
Worldcat is a catalogue of books and materials available in libraries worldwide.
Alan Liu’s Voice of the Shuttle is an extensive list of electronic resources for study in the humanities.
Victorian Resources
Patrick Leary’s Victoria Research Web (associated with the very active Victoria listserv) is perhaps the first place to go online for help in researching specifically Victorian topics.
Sally Mitchell’s "Doing Research on Victorian Fiction" page has both general resources (including some not noted here) and special resources on women’s fiction.
Victorian Studies’ annual Victorian Bibliography (available as part of the Summer issue each year) is an interdisciplinary database of articles and reviews published each year on Victorian topics.
George Landow’s Victoria Web is a hypertext resource of general information about the period
Jack Lynch’s Victorian Page is in his Literary Resources Collection.
Historical Newpapers Online provides indices for the London and NY Times for most of the century, with links to full texts for the London Times.
Jerome McGann’s D.G. Rossetti Archive is one of the most extensive archiving projects of an author or painter in the period.
Complete Primary Texts:
LETRS is the Library Electronic Resource Service at IU. Provides humanities-related electronic texts via the Internet and in the LETRS Humanities Computing Lab on the first floor of the Main Library. Full texts of major philosophical works; Jane Austen’s novels; Swinburne’s poems; English Prose Drama; as well as the Victorian Women Writer’s Project.
The Internet Library of Early Journals includes online runs of Blackwood’s (1843-1863), Notes and Queries, and the Builder; included here as one example of the sorts of riches hidden away on the web
Book and CD resources
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, edited by Joanne Shattock. An essential bibliography of scholarship on the period 1800-1900.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. An index, giving titles and authors (including the authors of many anonymous publications) of contributions to major Victorian Periodicals. Available in the stacks and at the reference desk
Dictionary of National Biography on CD ROM. Source for biographical information.
Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899. An index of periodical literature including poetry from the century.
Compiled December 2003. To make suggestions please contact Andrew H. Miller