GERM 431 From the Enlightenment to Romanticism
Ludwig Fischer, Professor

1. Library Full-Text Databases

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography [DLB], Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism.

MLA International Bibliography. Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3,000 journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, and working papers.

Iter: Provides a bibliography of close to 550,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Project Muse: Provides online access to the full text of over 100 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.

JSTOR: Provides access to the complete backfiles of more than 322 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s. Over 12 million pages are now available.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism: Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

Early English Books Online
: Provides indexing, citations and full text of Early English publications from 1475 to 1800. Covers English literature, languages, music, religion, science, travel and exploration and politics. Includes Christopher Marlowe.

Evans Digital Edition: The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Upon completion, the Evans Digital Edition will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. Includes materials in German.

2. Internet Resources

Deutsche Literaturgeschichte

Das Deutsche Wörterbuch der Brüder Grimm

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie

Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750 - 1815
Access to full text of 18th and early 19th century German periodicals.

Weimarer Goethe-Bibliographie online

Faust Links (lots of dead links)

SOPHIE: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women

19th-Century German Stories

Image of Neuschwanstein Castle courtesy of Pics4Learning

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