At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction. The database is hosted by the Victorian Research Web, a major and free research resource for Victorian scholars. The database currently contains entries for 19,143 titles, 4,073 authors, and 603 publishers as well as information about genres, illustrations, and serializations.
http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/
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The Belfast Group connected a new generation of poets and writers from Northern Ireland.
Meeting at Philip Hobsbaum’s house in the shadow of Queen’s University, the Group read and commented on the drafts of each others’ poems, plays, and stories. Notable members of the Group included Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Michael Longley. Read drafts from these poets and others.
Interactive networks and digitized drafts of poetry make the Belfast Group’s connections visible.
After the Group stopped meeting in 1972, many participants downplayed its importance to their writing, but by graphing the interactions among the members of the Group—in poems or letters—we can better understand the relationships created during the writing workshop.
https://belfastgroup.ecds.emory.edu/
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about “family”, “religion”, “slavery” or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader. The Schomburg Center is pleased to make this historic resource available to the public.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
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Large collaborative initiative that involves scholars, teachers, students, professionals of the creative industries, and the general public in investigating how practices of transnational production, distribution and consumption in the field of popular culture have facilitated the appearance of engaging representations of Europe’s cultural identity.
In accordance with the priority defined by the European Agenda for Culture in a Globalised World to promote cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, it studies the role played by the mobility of people, works and representations in circulating images and themes that constitute a shared cultural asset for large sectors of the European society.
It contributes to the writing of a new narrative of the Europeanisation process by creating and testing new learning methods, resources and tools designed to stimulate the emergence of new creative projects addressed to transnational audiences explicitly dealing with the representation of Europe.
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Artist, poet, feminist, entrepreneur, inventor, and world traveler, Mina Loy consorted with nearly every avant-garde movement, including Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, but was contained by none. Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde documents her avant-garde affiliations, pursuing new modes of textual and visual expression in order to invite a closer, more informed engagement with her work. This peer-reviewed, digital, multimedia scholarly book is an open educational resource authored by students, staff, and faculty at Davidson College, Duquesne University, and the University of Georgia (UGA). It is the culmination of a five-year collaboration, supported by a generous Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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The International Crime Fiction Research Group, based at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities in Queen’s University Belfast, was created in 2013. It brings together scholars from disciplines such as literature, film studies and cultural history. Its principal aim is to organise a series of initiatives themed around issues relating to the international genres of crime fiction, in order to establish long-term collaborations with other UK and European scholars and Libraries. It will involve crime authors and series editors, and other stakeholders in the circulation of crime fiction, such as publishers, critics, translators and specialised retailers. It builds on a series of conferences held to date by the Ireland-based International Crime Genre Research Network, in partnership with Dr Kate Quinn (University of Galway) and Dr Marieke Krajenbrink (University of Limerick) in Galway (2005), Limerick (2007), Cork (2009) and Belfast (2011).
https://internationalcrimefiction.org/
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This project is centred on the reconstruction of biographical and geographical patterns of readership and reading in Dublin between 1826 and 1926. The project aims at collating and exploit data from unique extant records of readership at Marsh’s Library for this period and it draws on Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to provide an innovative research resource which will transform academic and popular understanding of Dublin’s cultural and literary history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
When Archbishop Narcissus Marsh founded the Library in 1707, he intended it to be at the intellectual heart of the city, a place in which ‘graduates and gentlemen’ could consult the latest and most up-to-date knowledge in a range of subjects, as well as a host of rare and curious older texts. Through a creative alignment of humanities research and GIS technology, this project seeks to explore and reconstruct the role and scope of Marsh’s as a knowledge node in Dublin’s book and reading culture during the long nineteenth century.
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The Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts (DLMM) currently encompasses the Roman de la Rose Digital Library and the Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium. It offers a research environment in which the 13th-century narrative of the Rose and the works of late 14th/early 15th-century author, Christine de Pizan, can be explored in their manuscript context.
https://dlmm.library.jhu.edu/en/digital-library-of-medieval-manuscripts/#home
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An archive of parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems, and also a scholarly tool to facilitate interdisciplinary music and poetry scholarship. It is designed and developed by Joanna Swafford with the generous support of a Scholars’ Lab Fellowship from the University of Virginia. It contains four songs: Michael William Balfe’s “Come into the Garden, Maud” and Sir Arthur Somervell’s “Come into the Garden, Maud” (both based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s monodrama, Maud), Sir Arthur Sullivan’s version of Adelaide Procter’s “A Lost Chord,” and Caroline Norton’s “Juanita.”
Parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems are not mere examples of Victorian kitsch: rather, these settings function as readings of the poems they use as lyrics. Songs of the Victorians includes parlor songs alongside art songs to challenge the conventional musicological assumption that popular, domestic music naïvely misrepresents its poetic source material. Many parlor songs actually perform nuanced understandings of the texts they set and address subjects such as the silencing of women, the difficulty of resolving gender inequalities, religious questionings, and “”cross-singing,”” or women singing text written for a male character. These socially acceptable, sentimental songs often enabled women to address transgressive topics that otherwise would have been forbidden.
http://www.songsofthevictorians.com/balfe/archive.html
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The Middle English Texts Series is a long-running academic publishing project based out of the University of Rochester’s Robbins Library. The goal of this project is to make relatively unknown or unread medieval texts available to scholars, teachers, and students who may otherwise struggle to find them in the commercial market. These digital editions, which are free for anyone to view and print, embody this ideal of making ‘fringe’ medieval literature accessible to as many people as possible.
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams
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