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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)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• 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)
• The literature of the Empire, by Edward Salmon. The art of the Empire, by Major A. A. Longden. (New York, H. Holt & co., 1924), by Edward Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• History of English literature, by H.A. Taine, translated by H. Van Laun ... With a preface prepared expressly for this translation by the author ... (New York, H. Holt and Company, 1886), by Hippolyte Taine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, critical and miscellaneous. By T. Babington Macaulay. (Boston, Phillips, Sampson, & co., 1856), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art, literature, and the drama / by Margaret Fuller Ossoli, edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. (New York : The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of English literature : chronologically arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of biographical sketches of the authors, selections from their works, with notes, explanatory, illustrative, and directing to the best editions and to various criticisms ... / By Charles Dexter Cleveland. (Philadelphia : E. C. and J. Biddle & co., 1860), by Charles Dexter Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on English literature : from Chaucer to Tennyson / by Henry Reed. (Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan, 1855), by Henry Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of English literature / by Thomas B. Shaw with a sketch of American literature by Henry T. Tuckerman. (New York : Sheldon & Co., 1866), by Thomas B. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in English literature / By Arthur Gilman. (New York, Chicago : A. S. Barnes & co., [1876]), by Arthur Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson / By Henry Reed. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co., 1860), by Henry Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor, by Donald Grant Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria, by Donald Grant Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne, by Donald Grant Mitchell (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)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the Georges, by Donald Grant Mitchell (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)
• By-ways in Book-land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects, by W. H. Davenport Adams (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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