Microform Collections in Stauffer Library
ENGLISH LITERARY PERIODICALS
Description
This collection consists of 341 literary periodicals published during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. In addition to their literary contents, the periodicals give insight to a wide variety of topics and to cultural life of those times. The most predominant type of literary magazine published was the literary review, with Memoirs of Literature, the Monthly Review, the Monthly Repository, and Cambridge University Magazine being among the better-known titles. Not all periodicals were reviews; some were highly specialised in one subject area or genre, while others included political magazines, satire, news, and women's publications. Some subjects covered in the collection include aesthetics, criticism, art, military affairs, social and economic issues, agriculture, religion, philosophy, science. Additionally, many of the important writers of the period are represented, e.g. Defoe, Steele, Addison, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Burke, Smollett, Coleridge, George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, and Christina Rossetti.
Microform Location and Call Number Stauffer Library - Check QCAT by title of periodical or view master list of available titles (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Index/Guide Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Reference at Z692 .S5 U56 1981
Collection Status Nearly complete (the original collection contains 969 reels)
Notes
- In the index, the reels are numbered from 001 to 969. However, in QCAT and on the actual microfilm boxes themselves, groupings of reels are numbered in 3 or 4 different manners, such that less than a hundred reels actually show up with their designated number from the collection. For a sequential listing of the reels, based on information from the index, click here (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Titles in RED indicate missing reels.
- The index title is Accessing English literary periodicals: a guide to the microforms collection, with title, subject, editor and reel number indexes.