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• Literary form -- History
• History -- 18th century

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

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• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Form and Reform: Reading Across the Fifteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Shannon Noelle Gayk and Kathleen Ann Tonry, contrib. by Jessica Brantley, Andrew Cole, Karen A. Winstead, Rebecca Krug, Robert John Meyer-Lee, Mishtooni Bose, and James Simpson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Peter W. Rose (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia Política y Diplomática, Desde la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Hasta Nuestros Dias (1776-1895) (in Spanish; Madrid: A. Romero, 1897), by Jerónimo Bécker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), ed. by Richard Harding and Agustín Guimerá Ravina (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Black London: Life Before Emancipation (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1995), by Gretchen Gerzina (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Mexican Bajio in the Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of Cultural Integration (New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1955), by Eric R. Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mexican Bajio in the Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of Cultural Integration (New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1955), by Eric R. Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baptist Annual Register (4 volumes, covering 1790-1802), by John Rippon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black London: Life Before Emancipation (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1995), by Gretchen Gerzina (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, in Two Volumes; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782), by Ignatius Sancho
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1979, reissued with a new foreword 2021), by Richard Beale Davis, contrib. by Catherine Kerrison (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Ida Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by Henry Fielding (Gutenberg text)

• Letters From a Lady, Who Resided Some Years in Russia, to Her Friend in England; With Historical Notes (second edition; London: J. Dodsley, 1777), by Mrs. Vigor (multiple formats at Google)

• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Works of Augustus M. Toplady, A. B., Late Vicar of Broad Hembury, Devon (6 volumes, 1825), by Augustus Toplady
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V (slightly different edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at Google

• The New England Clergy and the American Revolution (originally published 1928), by Alice M. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cleveland in a Nutshell (1893), by Elroy McKendree Avery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ohio Memory

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Tamar Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• "Proven Patriots": The French Diplomatic Corps, 1789-1799 (St. Andrews, UK: Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St. Andrews, c2011), by Linda Frey and Marsha Frey (PDF at St. Andrews)

• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

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