Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 652.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (91)
Subject: New E-Publications
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (24)
Subject: Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:26 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: New E-Publications
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia announces the
electronic publication of two scholarly works, Attributions of Authorship
in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868, and Attributions of Authorship in
the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826. These fully searchable resources
created by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin provide unprecedented access to the
contents of two of the most important and wide-ranging English periodicals
of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carefully designed and
meticulously documented, these databases also serve as paradigms for
future electronic research in bibliography. The Bibliographical Society
of UVa is delighted to be the first in the family of international
bibliographical societies to publish original research in an electronic
environment.
The publications are available without charge to users world-wide through
the Society's website, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/.
We invite you to consult these works at the Society's website and to
review them in your publication.
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Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868, by
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, is a fully searchable database that provides
attributions for nearly 20,000 anonymous contributions in the periodical.
>From its beginning in 1731 until 1856, when its longtime editor John
Nichols relinquished ownership, the Gentleman's Magazine was one of the
most influential periodicals in England. Because many of the
contributions in this reservoir of contemporary news and culture were
anonymous or signed in a way that obscured authorship, numerous attempts
have been made to provide reliable attributions. The current publication
brings together the existing identifications and adds a major new trove.
The new publication comprises three separate projects. The largest
component is a recasting of materials in James M. Kuist's The Nichols File
of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, which on its print publication in 1982 made
available 14,000 attributions written by members of the Nichols family in
a staff copy of the periodical. Over the years other scholars have made
an additional 1850 or so attributions, which de Montluzin has identified
and culled from about five dozen separate publications and added to the
database. Through additional research, whose results first appeared in
six articles in Studies in Bibliography from 1991 through 1997, de
Montluzin has added 4000 more attributions to the total. As a result,
nearly 20,000 attributions across 137 years of the magazine's life are now
available in a single, searchable database.
Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE is searchable by
keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and
pseudonym. The attributions in each section are cross-listed in a
Chronological Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are
browseable. In introductory essays the author describes her methodology
for ascribing authorship and provides further information about features
of the database.
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/gm/
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Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826, is a fully
searchable database listing all known attributions of authorship for
anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters,
reviews, and poems appearing in the European Magazine from its first
monthly number in 1782 to its cessation in 1826. Like its contemporary
the Gentleman's Magazine, the European Magazine printed articles and
letters concerning literature, antiquarian matters, theology, science,
biography, and current news, and included monthly department for book
reviews, poetry, parliamentary reporting, and theater. Many of these
articles were printed anonymously or bore only initials to designate
authorship. Professor de Montluzin has used both contemporary and
internal evidence to determine the authorship of a substantial proportion
of the items appearing in the European Magazine's 50,000 pages.
Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE assembles the names of
160 men and women who contributed material to the European Magazine during
its forty-four year history Among these newly identified contributors are
the literary critics George Steevens and Isaac Reed, musician Charles
Burney, botanist Richard Pulteney, astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, and
Orientalist Sir William Jones. Among the women on the list are the Della
Cruscan poet Hannah Cowley, Eliza Gilding Turner, Mary ("Perdita")
Robinson, and the prolific writer of verse and tales Anna Jane Vardill.
Several American contributors appear: Washington Irving; the physician
Joseph Brown Ladd; the Rev. Timothy Dwight; Congregationalist divine and
president of Yale College; the Rev. John Vardill, titular professor of
natural law at King's College (later Columbia University) and Loyalist
spy; and William Franklin, natural son of Benjamin Franklin and last royal
governor of New Jersey. Among the contributors were a number whose
literary reputations long remained high, most notably Irving, Thomas
Percy, Thomas Campbell, Isaac D'Israeli, Sir Walter Scott, and William
Hazlitt.
Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE is searchable by
keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and
pseudonym. The 2074 attributions are cross-listed in a Chronological
Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are fully browseable.
In an introductory essay the author describes her methodology for
ascribing authorship and provides further information about features of
the database.
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/euromag/
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin is Professor of History at Francis Marion
University in Florence, South Carolina
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Alderman Library
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4152
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:56 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes
>> From: "Pat Hodges" <phodges@umich.edu>
Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes
The University of Michigan University Library is pleased to announce the
addition of over 7,000 volumes to its Making of America collection. This
expansion brings the total volumes available online to 8,500 or
approximately 2.89 million pages of text and 1.15 billion words. The
addition of these materials to Making of America was made possible in part
through the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an
equipment grant from Sun Microsystems.
Making of America (MoA) a publicly-accessible online resource focusing on
19th century American publications now contains over 3% of all American
imprint monographs published in the 19th century (based on preliminary
statistics provided by the Library of Congress). The majority of these
materials were published between 1850 and 1876 and focus on topics ranging
from the life and death of Abraham Lincoln to the latest 19th century
household sciences to reflections on travel to the Western United States.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and
technology. MoA offers users the opportunity to view faithful replicas of
the original source materials, perform full text searches over the entire
collection, search within individual texts, and save searches and develop
bibliographies using the MoA book bag.
The Making of America is available freely over the Internet and may be found
at: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/. For additional information about MoA,
contact moa-feedback@umich.edu.
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