Archive for August 8th, 2015

Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Clotel

Clotel The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel’s four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Current Biography Illustrated

Current Biography Illustrated Provides short biographies of persons currently in the news and about whom no full-length biography exists as of the date of publication in Current Biography. Includes references to current (or then-current) news sources on the individual. Entries date back to 1940 but this is often the only reliable source for biography for […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Digital Temple

Digital Temple Provides diplomatic transcriptions of Herbert’s collection of poems known as The Temple as they are found in two manuscript versions and the first printed edition. High quality digital copies of both of the manuscripts and the first printed edition are available for viewing. All have been transcribed in modern English spelling. Users may […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence

Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence Presents a full-text and searchable edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence and 74 poems in one scholarly edition. These poems were contained within or were a letter in themselves to her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson. These poems are often contextualized by the letter. The searchable texts are also accompanied by a digitized scan of […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Herman Melville’s Typee

Herman Melville’s Typee Provides full-text and digital reproduction access to the many editions and revisions of Herman Melville’s novel Typee – the work that was Melville’s most popular in his lifetime. A fluid text is described as “any literary work that exists in multiple versions due to authorial, editorial, or cultural revision. . . .” […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Journal of Emily Shore

Journal of Emily Shore Provides the first complete presentation of the transcribed journals of Emily Shore, a young Victorian woman of extraordinary talent. Emily Shore read widely – economics, botany, zoology – and was an amateur botanist and ornithologist who catalogued the natural world around her home and wrote essays on bird behavior. She also […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Letters of Matthew Arnold

Letters of Matthew Arnold Presents a full-text, searchable edition of 4,000 letters written by the Victorian critic and poet. Correspondence is annotated and may be searched by author or recipient, date, or keyword. Allows for wild card and proximity searching (“light*” and “dark*” within X number of words of each other). Includes a chronology of […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Letters of Christina Rossetti

Letters of Christina Rossetti Provides full-text access to the letters of Christina Rossetti; based on the 4 volume published correspondence edited by Anthony H. Harrison. Searchable by recipient, date, or keyword. Allows for wild card and proximity searching (“light*” and “dark*” within X number of words of each other). Includes a chronology of Rossetti’s life […]

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Papers of Alexander Hamilton Fully searchable text of all known papers by and to Alexander Hamilton between 1768 – 1804 (this collection is complete). Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology, index, and scholarly updates since the publication of the print edition.

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Saturday, August 8th, 2015

Papers of Andrew Jackson

Papers of Andrew Jackson Fully searchable text of the papers of Andrew Jackson. Publication of volumes is in progress (usually chronologically) and new volumes are added as available. Searchable by author or recipient, date, or by the notes from the printed edition. Includes a chronology and index.

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