- American Poetry : the American Poetry Full-Text Database.
(MP)
This CD includes poems from over 200 American poets and six anthologies of American poetry. The principal bibliographical source for the database is the Bibliography of American literature, 1955-1991. Software features include keyword, poet and gender searches and custom viewing and printing options.
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan) (MP)
Approx. 40 volumes of verse, encoded according to the TEI guidelines. Also under development at Michigan: a bibliography of American verse writers and works, along with links to Michigan's collections, Chadwyck-Healey works, and other works on the Internet.
- Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies (MP)
Includes "the entire corpus of plays, poems and sonnets, Arden introductions, commentary notes, variants and appendices, facsimile images of first folios and appropriate quarto texts, grammar and glossary, bibliography and Shakespeare sources"--Portfolio.
- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (MP)
- The Bible in English (CH/MP)
CD-ROM containing "twenty-one different versions of the English Bible. In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and New Testament"--User manual.
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (MP)
This link is to the Univ. of California, Davis project to digitize texts of British Women Romantic Poets, with works of 39 poets included thus far.
- The Brontes (MP)
This CD includes "the complete electronic text of all the Bronte novels; full electronic text of the poems of Anne, Emily, Charlotte and Branwell in scholarly editions from Oxford University Press, Garland and Macmillan; four volumes of Bronte letters and two volumes of Charlotte and Branwell's juvenilia in the Shakespeare Head edition published by Blackwell; over 3,000 manuscript images from Bronte Parsonage Museum and The British Library; paintings by Patrick Branwell Bronte"--Portfolio.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400: The General Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000).
(MP)
Project edited by Elizabeth Solopova. Includes transcripts, descriptions, and images of all fifty-three of the fifteenth-century manuscripts and early printed editions of the General Prologue, along with a spelling database, and the capacity to retrieve words, phrases, and textual features.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (MP)
"Presents transcriptions, collations and digitized images of all 58 pre-1500 manuscript and print versions."
- Corpus of Middle English (University of Michigan) (MP)
- Database of African-American Poetry (1760-1900) (MP)
Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th and 19th
centuries. Includes such well-known figures as Paul Lawrence Dunbar and many lesser
known poets whose works may only be found in anthologies or in private libraries.
Note: Although the CD version is available in the ETRC (Helpsheet available), we now have access over the Web to the Univ. of Michigan's online version.
- Dictionary of the English Language (Samuel Johnson) (MP)
This CD includes the full text of both the 1755 and the 1773 (1st and 4th) editions. Also includes digitized images of all original pages of both editions. Software provides browsing
and side-by-side comparison of the two editions.
- EEBO: Early English Books Online (MP)
"From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, EEBO will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources."
- English Poetry Full Text Database (600 AD through 1900) (MP)
One of the largest full-text databases, encompassing the works of 1,350 poets from the
Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteeth century. Allows the study of poetic themes
and imagery, stylistic analysis, lexicographic research and the creation of concordances.
Note: Although the CD version is available in the ETRC, we now have access over the Web to the Univ. of Michigan's online version.
- English Verse Drama (MP)
English Verse Drama contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
Note: Although the CD version is available in the ETRC, we now have access over the Web to the Univ. of Michigan's online version.
- Johnson, Samuel & James Boswell. Johnson & Boswell. (Major Authors on CD ROM). Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997. (MP)
Edited by Leo Damrosch. Includes User's Guide. Searchable full texts of the complete Yale edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson; the 6-volume L. F. Powell edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson; rare editions from the British Library; the 1755 edition of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language; images of Johnson, Boswell, and others; and an index of 6000 entries. Circulating copies stand in Wilson at PR3521 .S26x 1997.
- Landow, George: The Hypertext in Hypertext (MP)
Expanded version of his Hypertext : the convergence of critical theory and technology
(1992). Describes how technology alters our conceptions of textuality and the process of
reading and writing. Links the full text of the book with related information (reviews,
comments, selections from Derrida and other theorists).
- Michigan Early Modern English Materials (MP)
- Middle English Compendium (University of Michigan) (MP)
The Middle English Compendium comprises 3 resources:
- an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED)
- a Hyperbibliography of Middle English prose and verse, the materials cited in the Middle English Dictionary
- the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, currently 42 texts in electronic form.
- Modern English Works (MP)
- Moulthrop, Stuart: The Victory Garden (MP)
Prepared using Storyspace (a hypertext authoring system for the PC), this CD contains the Victory Garden which is hypertext fiction, a maze of stories and connected lives overlaid on a collage of the Gulf War and its media frenzy.
- Much Ado About Shakespeare (MP)
A multimedia teaching tool on CD consisting of most of Shakespeare's works (plays and
sonnets) and including images, narrations and musical excerpts.
-
Oxford English Dictionary Online (MP/RK)
The OED Online offers the full text of the 20-volume second edition plus the "additions" volumes, and also quarterly additions of new material. You may search simply for a word's etymology and definition, or you may search for a word anywhere in the full text of the
dictionary. The site includes a tutorial and good help screens. The CD version is also available. For suggestions as to how to use these resources, consult: Donna Lee Berg, "The Research Potential of the Electronic OED2 Database: a Guide for Scholars".
- Ruskin, John: Works (on CD-ROM) (MP)
Includes the works of John Ruskin plus two additional essays: Introduction to The works of John Ruskin on CD-ROM by Michael Wheeler and The history of the library edition of The works of John Ruskin by James S. Dearden.
- Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University) (MP)
- Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman. (Major Authors on CD ROM). Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997. (MP)
Edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. Searchable full texts with hyperlinks between electronic texts and images. Includes the New York University Press edition of Whitman's Works; a selection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library; over 100 images of Whitman; contemporary reviews; facsimiles of editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman's lifetime; and the alleged recording of Whitman's voice. Circulating copies are in Wilson: PS3200 .F97x 1997.
- Women Writers Project (Brown University) (MP)
Women's writing in English, 1330-1830.
- Woolf, Virginia. Virginia Woolf. (Major Authors on CD ROM). Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997. (MP)
Edited by Mark Hussey, this collection includes Woolf's complete works with variant and rare editions; 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex; an index of 2000 entries; and an eight-minute recording of her BBC talk "Craftsmanship." Circulating copies are in Wilson: PR6045 .O72x 1997.
- Wright American Fiction,1851-1875
Lyle Wright's 1957 bibliography lists nearly 3000 works of fiction for adults published in America between 1851 and 1875. A cooperative project of the CIC libraries, led by Indiana University, has digitized 2,887 volumes by 1,387 writers. So far 2,463 books are available as scanned images, and 424 are fully edited and encoded, searchable by key word. The collection includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with many long-forgotten authors.
The online collection consists of two different groups of texts. The larger is a group of electronic texts
created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. These texts are available for searching and browsing, using the digital page images. The text files have not been proofread or corrected, and still contain errors.
The project is working through this group, correcting errors and adding SGML encoding, creating a second, smaller group of fully edited texts that allow you to view both the electronic text as well as the page images. In addition to being corrected, these files allow for better navigation by identifying chapter or story divisions within each work and having a hypertext linked "Table of Contents". However, until the entire collection is edited and encoded, each of these two groups will remain different collections that can be searched together.