Research Guides: Romanticism: Romantic-Era Books

Romantic-Era Books Online

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
1600-1925. Experience Gale Literary Sources, the search platform that allows searching many Gale digital collections together such as NCCO, ECCO, The Times Digital Archive, and The Making of Modern Law.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A shared digital repository that includes holdings of more than 60 major research institutions and libraries.

Google Books
Search the full text of a huge collection of digitized books. Books in the public domain may be downloaded for free.
Project Guttenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books.
Internet Archive Text Archive
Contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

WorldCat
This database includes all types of library materials cataloged by libraries that contribute their records to OCLC, the U.S. national database. Search WorldCat after you've searched the SLU Libraries Catalog and MOBIUS. You can use Interlibrary Loan to borrow books you find in WorldCat (as long as they are part of circulating collections).

English Short Title Catalogue (1473-1800)
Provides a comprehensive bibliography of printed documents from the hand-press era, beginning with the earliest printing in England (circa 1473) through 1800. Includes items printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, the United States, and Canada, in any language. Also includes relevant English and foreign language items from other parts of the world. Holdings of about 2,000 libraries around the world are covered, and the location of surviving copies and facsimiles are provided.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, 1801-1815
Call Number: Ref. Z2001 .N5 1984
Series I, Phase I. (5 volumes)
Indexes all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the US, all printed works in English, and all translations from English, from 1801-1815.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, 1816-1870 by Gwen Averley (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. Z2001 .N52 1986
Series II, Phase I. (56 volumes)
Indexes all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the US, all printed works in English, and all translations from English, from 1816-1870. Pius Library does not have Series III.