18th-Century Reading Room

a collection of letters, maps, documents, books, music, engravings, and other materials from Europe and the Americas ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

Contributors

  • Caroline Fuchs
  • Rebecca Dresser

Is this your first visit?

Please visit here for an introduction to the Reading Room

CUNY Essay Competition

We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2006 essay competition --
Tied for FIRST PLACE are Jason Turetsky and Michael Brenes

THIRD PLACE is given to Justin Mugits

Sam Shiff, Simona Pop and Talise Gaynor have been awarded Honorable Mention.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our 2006 competition.

Click here for 2007 submission requirements.

Upcoming events

Dec. 8, 2pm -- Dr. Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, "Waverley and the Object of (Literary) History," presented by the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Group

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The 18th-Century Reading Room is located within the Mina Rees Library at the City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10016-4036. Please see our access policy for details.

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Special Collections Librarian Caroline Fuchs

English Fellow Carrie Shanafelt

History Fellow Rebecca Dresser

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Online Resources

  • Mina Rees Library
  • CUNY Graduate Center
  • Early Modern Resources
  • Voice of the Shuttle
  • Literary Resources on the Net by J. Lynch
  • Project Gutenberg
  • The Online Books Page
  • UVa's Electronic Text Center
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey (1674-1834)
  • Archive for the Eighteenth-Century
  • The Johnson Dictionary Project
  • Library of Congress Eighteenth-Century Special Collection
  • Mrs. Spectator's Coffeehouse
  • C18-L at Penn State
  • Renaissance Lit Resource Blog
  • The Long Eighteenth

Previous Posts

  • PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW SITE
  • Item of the Day: Sketches of the History of Man (...
  • (January 12th, 2007) Item of the Day: Barclay’s Ap...
  • Item of the Day: The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts...
  • Item of the Day: Mrs. Trollope's Manners of the A...
  • Item of the Day: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the ...
  • Walpole's Private Correspondence
  • Item of the Day: The General History of the Wars o...
  • Item of the Day: Dunlap’s Memoirs of the life of G...
  • Item of the Day: Franco-Gallia (1711)

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