New at the UK Web Archive — a collection of web sites relating to 19th century English literature.

The sites included so far display a broad and eclectic array of subject matters – ranging from author societies to museums; from literary adaptations to academic syllabi. 19th century literature is still hugely popular and attracts a wide audience.
post from Andrea Lloyd, Curator of Printed Literary Sources, 1801-1914 at the British Library

UK Web Archive

The Folger Library has launched open-source, digital Shakespeare. “The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials, launched the Folger Digital Texts on Thursday. It’s a set of authoritative Shakespeare plays available for free — along with the source code. Noncommercial app builders, scholars and others can use the code to build their own Shakespeare-oriented projects.” from Los Angeles Times article by Carolyn Kellogg dated Dec. 6, 2012(http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/)

Folger Digital Texts

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is proud to present 'Getting to Know Shakespeare', an on-line course which aims to give you a taste of different approaches to Shakespeare.

audio and video Shakespeare course

From Gilgamesh to Gogol, the world has been enriched by the writings of gifted people from a wide range of cultural traditions and regions of the world.

This remarkable series from the Annenberg Media organization provides a nice introduction to "great epics, plays, poetry, and other literary texts." It includes testimony and commentary from scholars, artists, writers, and translators. The thirteen programs include "The Odyssey," "My Name is Red," "Popol Vuh," and "Candide."

Visitors can view each program in its entirety and then move on to the complete series site, which includes teaching materials and activities. While all of the episodes are well-done, visitors may wish to start by viewing the episodes dedicated to "The Thousand and One Nights" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which are particularly fine.

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Enjoy reading and viewing the Invitation to World Literature

A remarkable project, based at the University of North Dakota, that fills a gap in the scholarly literature surrounding Browning's works. In 2010, a five-volume print edition of these works was published, under the editorial direction of Dr. Donaldson.

This site presents all the version of Browning’s heavily revised poems that are difficult to represent in linear print format. These multiple interactive versions allow us to see online how Browning reworked her poems over time. Poems made available here include "A Child Asleep,” "Loved Once,” and "The House of Clouds.”

Visitors can also explore the "Prose" area to view different iterations of works such as "The Book of Poets" and "American Poetry.”
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Project

The top ten Global Legal Monitor (GLM) articles for May covered a wide array of interesting legal issues: War Crimes; Treatment of Animals; Immigration and Citizenship; Criminal Law and Procedure; Communications and electronic information; Labor; and Elections.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO-TCP)
This database, created in partnership between the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and Gale (part of Cengage Learning), provides access to 2,200+ titles printed between 1701 and 1800. These titles, fully indexed and keyword searchable, are offered free of charge by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) and are a subset of 150,000+ titles available via Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) database.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online may be accessed by going to our Literature and Language section on the Library Research Databases page

The NYPhil is hosting an online discussion about its new digital archive, documenting the history of the organization and highlighting its landmark tour around the world from 1943-1970.

A discussion will be held on Thursday, March 22, streamed live around the world, to inaugurate this pivotal collection of historic materials.

Read more on the Archive's website
And watch the event on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 10:30 am EDT

The National Archive is almost done with a 3-year-long project to digitize all records collected for the 1940 Census, which provides an in-depth look at US demographics just before the US entered WWII and was still in the grips of the Great Depression. I recommend watching this great introductory video detailing the project and thinking about how this material might be incorporated into teaching curriculums and research projects.

The OldMapsOnline portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

OldMapsOnline has been created by a collaboration between The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at The University of Portsmouth, UK and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland.

OldMapsOnline

Academic Search Premier (via EBSCOhost) is an upgrade from our previous Academic Search Elite package. This multi-disciplinary database provides access to more than double the number of indexed, full-text and peer-reviewed journals than the previous collection did.

A glimpse of 19th century British life is available online, courtesy of Emory University Libraries' Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

More than 1,200 novels, known as "yellowbacks", have been digitized using a cutting-edge robotic digital book scanner purchased from Kirtas Technologies by Emory Libraries in 2008.

Read more yellowbacks

Searchable database of monologues and scenes available from actorama web site.
Specify monologue or scene, for male or female, dramatic, comic or serio-comic, and time period. You may input keywords as well.

The Free Library has been offering free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of famous authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site.

Recently, it has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and more. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.

Some think The Free Library is the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Try it!

The Free Library

Want to write a great essay or come up with an original voice? These two questions and many more are discussed in this 26-part series on English composition. Offered as part of the Annenberg Media website, this video series "introduces basic principles and strategies for communicating in writing to a variety of audiences and improving general composition skills." Over the course of this series, interested parties will hear from a wide range of writing professionals. Each episode is 30 minutes long and the program titles include "Finding Something To Say", "Reading as a Writer", and "Peer Feedback". The material is quite varied, as users will find segments with Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh arguing about the definition of "welfare" and writers from the television program "MAD TV" talking about the experience of collaborative writing. [KMG]

Link: Writing

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Arden: World of William Shakespeare

A fascinating online interactive game created by the Synthetic Worlds Initiative at Indiana University. Arden allows users to explore the world of Shakespeare's many plays in a highly interactive and user-friendly fashion. With funding from a variety of sources (including the MacArthur Foundation) Edward Castronova and his colleagues have created this virtual world which allows users to move around in 17th century clothing and even join guilds. For anyone interested in virtual worlds, Shakespeare, and any number of related matters, this website and accompanying game will be a very welcome find.

Arden:World of William Shakespeare

The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University is a major academic initiative that aims to encourage scholarly research, teaching, and public discussion about religion through the diverse perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. Check out their general and specific religion web sites.


Online Resources for the Study of Religion

The SEP is a "dymanic reference work" - continuously updated by experts in the field and maintained by a distinguised editorial board. Currently, over 700 entries cover major philosophers and philosophical movements - entries tend to provide brief definitional information, and then launch deeply into the concepts under consideration.

http://plato.stanford.edu/

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness.


http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/litcrit/

The MLA Bibliography, which cites articles from over 4400 journals, is now available via the Ebsco interface. It will contain links to more full text!

A complete list of the new words and their definitions is available here. You can begin searching the OED now.