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• Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), by Richard Begam and James Soderholm (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
• The Common Reader, Second Series (1932), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Harvard Studies in English (partial serial archives)
• Anglistische Forschungen (in German and English) (partial serial archives)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Books Reviewed (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1922), by John Collings Squire
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William P. Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
• Adventures Among Books, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Transition, 1400-1580 (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by F. J. Snell
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only
• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, by Walter Pater
  • PDF at victorianprose.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• By-Ways in Book-Land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. H. Davenport Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (from "An English Garner"), ed. by Edward Arber and Thomas Seccombe, contrib. by John Churton Collins (Gutenberg text)
• De Libris: Prose and Verse, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature for Boys and Girls, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• English Literature: Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Figures of Several Centuries (London: Constable and Co., 1917), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and page images)
• From Chaucer to Tennyson, With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections From Thirty Authors, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Halleck's New English Literature, by Reuben Post Halleck (Gutenberg text)
• A History of English Literature, by Robert Huntington Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• History of English Literature (3 volumes; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1877), by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by Henri Van Laun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideas of Good and Evil (second edition; London: A. H. Bullen, 1903), by W. B. Yeats
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 volumes; Buffalo, NY: Moulton Pub. Co., 1901-05), ed. by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary and General Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley
  • all but Phaethon: Gutenberg text
  • Phaethon: Gutenberg text
• Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysticism in English Literature (c1913), by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
• The Papers of a Critic, Selected From the Writings of the Late Charles Wentworth Dilke, With a Biographical Sketch by His Grandson (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1875), by Charles Wentworth Dilke, ed. by Charles Wentworth Dilke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Studies in English Literature (London: E. Stanford, 1876), by John Dennis
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Walter Bagehot (with memoirs by Hutton; 5 volumes; Hartford, CT: Travelers Insurance Co., 1889), by Walter Bagehot, ed. by Forrest Morgan, contrib. by Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1999), by Balachandra Rajan (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Art of Reading (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1939), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• The Common Reader (first series, 1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
• Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• England's Antiphon, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• England's Antiphon (New York: Macmillan, 1890), by George MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings (4 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896-1897), by Donald Grant Mitchell
  • Volume I (From Celt to Tudor): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (From Elizabeth to Anne): Gutenberg text
  • Volume III (Queen Anne and the Georges): Gutenberg text
  • Volume IV (The Later Georges to Victoria): Gutenberg text
• English Literary Criticism, by Charles Edwyn Vaughan, ed. by C. H. Herford (Gutenberg text)
• Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Byways (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1898), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Roguery (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Man Shakespeare; and Other Essays (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1902), by Catharine Merrill, contrib. by Melville Best Anderson and John Muir (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (page images at CMU)
• Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Studies from Court and Cloister: Being Essays, Historical and Literary, Dealing Mainly with Subjects Relating to the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, by J. M. Stone (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good, (Philadelphia, W. P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in general, (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical essays, and Essays on the poets. (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1875), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• English poets. Twelve essays, by Joseph Gostwick ... With twelve portraits. (New York, Stroefer & Kirchner, [1875]), by Joseph Gostwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan ... (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1921]), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wordsworth and his circle, (New York, G. P. Putnam's sons; [etc., etc.], 1907), by David Watson Rannie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of English literature, by George Saintsbury. (New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1898), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art, literature, and the drama, by Margaret Fuller Ossoli ... edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1889), by Margaret Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of English literature in the reign of Victoria, with a glance at the past / by Henry Morley. (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), by Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of English literature. (Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1849), by Thomas B. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English literature for secondary schools, (New York, Harper & brothers, 1894), by J. Logie Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue, by Anthony Hope (Gutenberg ebook)
• Men, Women, and Books, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of English Literature Volume 3 (of 3), by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by Henri Van Laun (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3), by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by Henri Van Laun (Gutenberg ebook)
• Companionable Books, by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3), by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by Henri Van Laun, contrib. by J. Scott Clark (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier: A Memorial Volume of Selections from His Lectures and Other Writings, by Reginald Bateman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hours in a Library, Volume 3: New Edition, with Additions, by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Idle Hours in a Library, by William Henry Hudson (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1: With a Memoir and Index, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, ed. by Edwin Percy Whipple (Gutenberg ebook)
• Outline of the history of the English language and literature (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, by Henry Watson Kent (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody, by William Davenport Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature: With Facsimiles of the Title-Pages, by Grolier Club, contrib. by George Edward Woodberry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District, by Frederick Sessions (Gutenberg ebook)
• Why we should read--, by S. P. B. Mais (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 5 de 5) (in French), by Hippolyte Taine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 4 de 5) (in French), by Hippolyte Taine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 3 de 5) (in French), by Hippolyte Taine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 2 de 5) (in French), by Hippolyte Taine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shelburne Essays, Third Series, by Paul Elmer More (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 1 de 5) (in French), by Hippolyte Taine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature, by John Churton Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature, by William Hazlitt, ed. by Jacob Zeitlin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3, by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations, by John Cowper Powys (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• From a Cornish Window: A New Edition, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature, by William Ernest Henley (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance, by J. J. Jusserand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Obiter Dicta: Second Series, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2, by J. M. D. Meiklejohn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brief History of English and American Literature, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History: Designed as a Manual of Instruction, by Henry Coppée (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of Letters, by Robert Lynd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gossip in a Library, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Literature: Modern, by G. H. Mair (Gutenberg ebook)

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