Renaissance English literature on the World Wide Web

Major Renaissance sources

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)

Anniina Jokinen's pages are an excellent resource on this subject. Click on individual authors or use the search engine. Includes a selection of Essays and articles on Renaissance literature as well as Background Information, a comprehensive listing of links to Renaissance resources arranged under subject headings.

Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th century English literature

Voice of the Shuttle [VoS] sites are well-known for their usefulness. This one is no exception, with links to useful resources arranged under headings such as General sources; Authors; General criticism; Journals, and so on.

Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The CRRS is a library and research centre at the University of Toronto which is devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700.

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service

CERES, the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, was started in 1996 in response to the developing importance of electronic media in literary research. Aimed at those working in the area of English Renaissance literature and its environs, it issues a regular email newsletter, CERES Harvest, detailing and reviewing new developments in electronic resources for research in the Renaissance, as well as relaying calls for papers and conference programmes.

Texts

Renaissance Electronic Texts

A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web.

Dictionary

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)

LEME (previously known as the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)) searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1702.
You can search LEME using Patterweb.

Electronic journals

Early Modern Literary Studies

Early Modern Literary Studies: a Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature is a refereed journal in electronic form which serves both as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. EMLS is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond.

Renaissance Forum

Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies.
An interdisciplinary refereed journal, specialising in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship and in the critical methodologies of these fields, published biannually by the Departments of English and History at the University of Hull.
There is a handy keyword search facility to look for articles in all issues of the journal.
An email list is used to announce the contents of issues as they appear.

Early Modern Culture

The organisers of Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar 'have tried to create an on-line space for something like the active and on-going inquiry of a good seminar. Hence, what you will find at this site are four works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers...'

Studies in English Literature (SEL)

Every Winter edition of SEL focuses on the English Renaissance. The Barr Smith Library provides online access to all issues of SEL to members of the University of Adelaide community from a variety of online sources.
There is a complete paper set of SEL, from vol.1 (1961) onwards, in the Barr Smith Library Main collection at call number 820.5 S933.

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The University of Adelaide Library has online subscriptions through Project Muse to volume 27, issue 1, Winter 1997; volume 30 (2000) - vol. 34(2004), and another subscription through Academic Search Elite to volume 27(1997) onwards, (excluding the latest year).

Paper copies are available in the Barr Smith Library under its first title:
The Journal of medieval and Renaissance studies
v.18, no.1 (Spring 1988) - v.25, no.3 (Autumn 1995). Main Collection 940.105 J8651

then under its later title, Journal of medieval and early modern studies
v.26, no.1 (Winter 1996) onwards. Main Collection 940.105 J8651.2