English 597: General Bibliography

1. The most important general bibliography is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 2 (1660-1800), edited by George Watson (1971). The most useful serial bibliographies are the MLA and MHRA. A very useful Web resource by Penn State's Jim May? Check it out.

By definition, serial bibliographies are quite out of date upon publication, but the MLA is doing better than most: the most current MLA bibliography is for 1998. Finally, you should become familiar with  the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), which is accessible via LIAS.  I will speak more about the potential uses of the ESTC in class and demonstrate how you can access it on-line. 

A large number of 18th-century sites under two umbrellas. The single best source, IMHO, is Jack Lynch's compendium.

Eighteenth-century e-texts and another corpus of electronic texts; texts available within the CIC.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

William Blake archive.

A German website that uses XML and the Dubline Core for searching.

Eighteenth-century bibliographies on-line. A collection from the Digital Librarian.

Jim May's bibliographical resources.

The evolution of books? An interesting site.

2. These general studies are useful to know about as you work in the area.

Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp (1953).
Bate, Walter Jackson. From Classic to Romantic (1946).
Bate, Walter Jackson. The Burden of the Past (1970).
Batten, Charles. Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in 18th-Cent.
Travel Literature (1974).
Battestin, Martin. The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature
and the Arts (1974).
Bredvold, Louis. The Natural History of Sensibility (1962).
Bronson, Bertrand. Facets of the Enlightenment (1968).
Butt, John (& G. Carnall). English Literature in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (1979).
Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. Modern essays on eighteenth-century literature (1988). 
Dobree, Bonamy. English Literature in the Early 18th Century, 1700-1740 (1959).
Engell, James. The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (1981).
Fussell, Paul. The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism (1965).
Hagstrum, Jean. Sex and Sensibility from Milton to Mozart (1980).
Johnson, James W. The Formation of English Neoclassical Thought (1967).
Lipking, Lawrence. The Ordering of the Arts in 18th Century England (1970).
Lovejoy, A.O. The Great Chain of Being (1936).
Miner, Earl. The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden (1974).
Monk, Samuel Holt. The Sublime (1935).
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory (1959).
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Newton Demands the Muse (1946).
Paulson, Ronald. The Fictions of Satire (1967).
Price, Martin. To the Palace of Wisdom (1964).
Rivers, Isabel, ed. Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (1982).
Rogers, Pat. The Augustan Vision (1974).
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England (1977).
Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1969).
Sutherland, James. A Preface to 18th-Century Poetry (1948).
Westfall, Richard. Science and Religion in 17th-Century England (1958).
Willey, Basil. The 18th-Century Background (1940).

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Amussen, Susan Dwyer. An Ordered Society: Gender and class in early modern England (Oxford, 1988).
Anderson, M. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914 (London, 1980).
Aries, Philippe & Georges Duby, A History of Private Life. Volume 2 (trans. by Arthur Goldhammer) and published for Harvard Univ. Press.
Armstrong, Nancy and Leonard Tennenhouse, eds. The Ideology of Conduct: Essays in literature and the
history of sexuality (London, 198?). 
Aylmer, G.E. Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660 (1986).
Beattie, J.M. Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (1986).
Beier, Lucinda McCray. Sufferers and Healers (London, 1988). On 17C medical practices.
Blaydes, Sophia B. and Philip Bordinat, Sir William Davenant: An Annotated Bibliography (1986?)
Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England (1982).
Brooks, Harold F. and Raman Selden, eds. The Poems of John Oldham (Oxford, 1987). 
Burford, E.J. Royal St James's: Being a Story of Kings, Clubmen and Courtesans (London, 1988). Deals with St. James Park in the 18C and the low-life and high-life people who haunted it. Lots of local color.
Clark, J.C.D. English Society, 1688-1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Regime (1986).
Cliffe, J.T. The Puritan Gentry (London, 1984). 
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels, ed. The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge, 1988).
Curry, Patrick, ed. Astrology, Science and Society: Historical Essays (Woodbridge, 1987).
Elias, N. The History of Manners: The Civilizing Process (Oxford, 1978).
Fowler, Alastair. A History of English Literature: Forms and Kinds from the Middle Ages to the Present (Cambridge, Mass., 1987).
Gillis, John. For Better, for Worse: British Marriages, 1600-Present (1985).
Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven, 1978).
Goody, Jack. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge, 1983).
Graves, M.A. and L.H. Silcock, Revolution, Reaction, and the Triumph of Conservatism (1985).
Greene, Donald and John A. Vance, A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970-1985 (1987).
Haley, H.D.D. Politics in the Reign of Charles II (1985).
Harris, Tim. London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and politics in the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis (Cambridge, 1987).
Hill, Christopher. A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church (OUP, 1988). 
Houlbrooke, Ralpha A., The English Family, 1450-1700 (London, 1984).
Hughes, Geoffrey. Words in Time: A social history of the English vocabulary (Oxford 1988).
Hutton, Ronald. The Restoration: A Political and Religious History, 1658-1667 (1985).
Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (CUP, 1988).
Keeble, N.H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later 17th-Century England (Leicester, 1987).
Kiernan, V.G. The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy (Oxford, 1988).
Korshin, Paul. Typologies in England, 1650-1820 (PUP, 1982).
Lacey, D.R. Dissent and Parliamentary Politics in England, 1661-1689 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1969).
Laslett, Peter and R. Wall, ed. Household and Family in Past Time (Cambridge, 1972).
Laslett, Peter. Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology (Cambridge, 1977).
Latham, R.C. and William Matthews, eds., The Diary of Samuel Pepys (11 vols., London, 1970-83).
Lerner, G. The Creation of Patriarchy (OUP, 1986).
Lindenbaum, Peter. Changing Landscapes: Anti-pastoral sentiments in the English Renaissance (Athens, 1987).
MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in 17th-C England (Cambridge, 1981). 
Macfarlane, Alan. The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition (Oxford, 1978).
Macfarlane, Alan. The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a 17th-Century Clergyman (Cambridge, 1970).
McEwen, G.D. The Oracle of the Coffee House (San Marino, 1972). On John Dunton.
McKeon, Michael. Politics and Poetry in Restoration England (Cambridge, 1975).
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies (Brighton, 1986).  
Mitterauer, M. and R. Sieder, The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the
Present (Oxford, 1982).
Mount, F. The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage (London, 1982).
Nelson, Carolyn and Matthew Secombe, British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1641-1700: A Short-Title Catalogue of Serials ... (New York, 1987).
Newton, Judity and Deborah Rosenfelt, ed. Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, class and race in literature and culture (London, 198?).
Nokes, David. Raillery and Rage: A Study of 18th-Century Satire (Brighton, 1988). .
Nussbaum, Felicity and Laura Brown, ed. The New 18th Century: Theory, politics, English literature (London, 1988). 
Nussbaum, Felicity. The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660-1750.
Outhwaite, R.B., ed. Marriage and Society, Studies in the Social History of Marriage (London, 1981).
Porter, Roy, ed. Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society
(Cambridge, 1985).
Porter, Roy. A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane (London, 1987). Review of both Porter books by Keith Thomas (TLS, December 4-10, 1987, 1339-40).
Porter, Roy. Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A history of madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (London, 1987).
Prior, Mary, ed. Women in English Society, 1500-1800 (London, 1985). 
Quaife, G.R., Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early 17C England (London, 1979). 
Richmond, Hugh M. Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French literary relations in the Reformation (Berkeley,
1981). 
Rousseau, G.S. and Roy Porter, eds., Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester, 1988).
Sharpe, J.A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760 (London, 1987)
Sharpe, Kevin and Steven N. Zwicker, Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of 17th-Century England (Berkeley, 1988).
Sharpe, Kevin. Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I (Cambridge, 1987).
Sheriff, John K. The Good-Natured Man: The Evolution of a Moral Idea, 1660-1800 (Alabama, 1982). tone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (London, 1977). See very critical review by A. Macfarlane in History and Theory, 18 (1979), 103-26.
Sutherland, James. The Restoration Newspaper (Cambridge, 1986).
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (Harmondsworth, 1983).
Underdown, David. Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660 (1985).
Weatherill, Lorna. Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britian, 1660-1760 (RKP, 1988).
Westfall, R.S. Science and Religion in Seventeenth-century England (New Haven, 1958).
Wing, Donald. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England ... 1641-1700 (vols 1-2, 2nd ed., NY, 1972-82; vol 3, 2nd ed., NY, 1988).
Wrightson, K. English Society, 1580-1680 (London, 1982).
Zwicker, Steven N. Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (PUP, 1984).