Bookshelf

Long_room_spiral_stairsClick on the link below to browse a list of the books and films on the shelves in the Early Modern Center. Hosted by Libib.

Early Modern Center Bookshelves

For access to a more detailed search, members of the Early Modern Center can sign in using the username and password given out by the EMC Fellow. This will allow you to search by tags, cataloging number, subject, authors, titles, and more.

Click here to sign in for robust searching.


Cataloging the EMC Library

There are six categories in the EMC library, and each has been assigned its own letter. Within the categories, primary texts are cataloged alphabetically by author, or by title if no author is present. Secondary texts are cataloged alphabetically by author or editor. The numbers assigned to each entry is intended to aid in the location of a text, and to aid in the addition of new volumes to the library. Those texts assigned a Special Collections ID are fragile, rare, or very old, and should only be read in the EMC.

Cataloging Key

B Texts related to EBBA
P Primary texts
S Scholarly (secondary) texts
E Texts related to EMBTA
SC Special collections (read in the EMC only!)
F Films

Book Reviews

Access book reviews hosted by the Early Modern Center on our blog, Miscellany.


Faculty Bookshelf


Lee Bliss, The World’s Perspective: John Webster and the Jacobean Drama (New Brunskwck, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983).

Lee Bliss, Francis Beaumont (Twayne’s English Authors Series) (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987).

Robert A. Erickson, Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne) (New York: AMS Press Inc., 1986).

Richard Helgerson, Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).

Ken Hiltner, Stephanie LeMenager, and Tess Shewry, eds., Environmental Criticism for the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2011).

David Marshall, The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith, and George Eliot (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

Michael O’Connell, Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977).

Michael O’Connell, Robert Burton (Twayne’s English Authors Series) (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986).

Mark Rose, Heroic Love: Studies in Sidney and Shakespeare (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).

Mark Rose, Shakespearean Design (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Mark Rose, Golding’s Tale: A Story about Raleigh’s Last Voyage (New York: Walker and Company, 1972).

William B. Warner, Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979).

William B. Warner, Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986).

Everett Zimmerman, Defoe and the Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).

Everett Zimmerman, Swift’s Narrative Satires: Author and Authority (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983).