Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature Now Accessible
The Library has recently purchased perpetual access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. The “ORE” is updated regularly with individually commissioned articles, and in addition includes articles from related stand-alone printed volumes, such as the Oxford Encyclopedias of American Literature, Literary Theory, Latina and Latino Literature, and others. In the words of editor-in-chief Dierdre Shauna Lynch (Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature, Harvard University): “At a moment when geopolitical borders appear increasingly impassable, the ORE of Literature is a truly international project, bringing together critics from across the globe. The Encyclopedia aims, as well, to do justice to the ways in which literature, constitutively category-busting, opens out onto multiple other disciplines-anthropology, politics, moral philosophy, psychology, the history of the material book, the study of visual culture.”
National Theatre Collection Now Available
The CU Library has expanded its collection of streaming theater performances with the addition of the National Theatre Collection. Drawing on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive, the video content includes 30 performances in this initial release. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as photographs, scripts, costume designs, and more will be available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. The collection features NTC performances of Medea, Frankenstein, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Antigone, and other contemporary productions of canonical plays.
Digital Theatre+ Is Here
The Cornell community can now view streaming high-definition performances of contemporary British drama on Digital Theatre+. DT+ provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. It includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Oxford’s Very Short Introduction Series Now Online
Very Short Introduction volumes in the arts, humanities, and social sciences are now accessible online to the Cornell Community. Launched in 1995 by Oxford University Press, Very Short Introductions offer concise overviews of a diverse range of subjects from classical mythology to consciousness, aesthetics to ancient warfare, American immigration to Islamic history. The collection includes Prof. Jonathan Culler’s VSIs to Barthes and literary theory.
Improve Wikipedia’s Coverage of Women in the Arts!
Help us improve the coverage of women in the arts at the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at Cornell! For just half an hour or for the whole day, you can pitch in through different ways: Write an entry, add a footnote, translate text, upload images, or look up information for others. You can also just cheer us on and get the buzz going on social media.
Everyone is welcome—no matter your gender, and regardless of experience with editing. Unfamiliar with Wikipedia? We’ll walk you through. Can’t bring a laptop or tablet? Use one of ours. If you already have women artists, writers, or performers in mind (whether cis-, transgender, or non-binary), great! If you don’t, just pick from our list.
Learn more and get ready for the event!
When: March 8, 2019, International Women’s Day, and throughout the month of March
Where: Olin Library, 7th Floor, or anywhere you can log in and edit
If you have questions, please feel free to get in touch with Marsha Taichman (met228) or Susette Newberry (sn18).
Sponsored by Cornell University Library, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability
The Library has just acquired online access to The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, which addresses a new and rapidly growing area of interest within the spheres of literary and cultural criticism. Signed essays cover a wide range of impairments — including cognitive difference, neurobehavioral conditions, and mental and chronic illnesses — relative to the medieval and early modern periods, the long 18th century, postcolonialism, intersectionality, race, gender, and more. A print copy is also available in Olin Library.
New Oxford Shakespeare Online
The New Oxford Shakespeare Online, which encompasses the content of all three printed volumes — the modern critical edition (complete works in modern spelling), the critical reference edition (complete works in original spelling), and the authorship companion — is now available to the Cornell community. In addition to the texts of Shakespeare’s plays and verse, The New Oxford Shakespeare Online contains essays on questions of authorship and chronology, as well as links to digitized archival images related to the folios and quartos. Edited from the base-texts themselves, The New Oxford Shakespeare draws on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship and offers a number of useful features, such as the display of parallel texts and editor’s notes on a single screen; downloading pages and sections as pdfs; a “copy and cite” tool; full text searching; page navigation; and word look-ups in the online Oxford Latin Dictionary.
Illustrated London News Archive Now Available
The Illustrated London News, the world’s first pictorial weekly newspaper, debuted in 1842. The inaugural issue covered a fire in Hamburg, Queen Victoria’s fancy dress ball, the war in Afghanistan and the latest fashions in Paris. The ILN commissioned a galaxy of great artists and draughtsmen to cover wars, royal events, scientific invention, exploration, theatre, literature and the arts. In 1855 it launched the world’s first color supplement. Over the years the publication played host to distinguished contributors and continued to push the boundaries of journalism throughout its history. Now a full digital facsimile of the entire archive is available to Cornell students and faculty. The full text is searchable, and page images, which were scanned from print copies, are in full color. Access the ILN through the Library Catalog record or via this direct link: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/10295408.
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedias of Literature Now Online
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is an ongoing scholarly resource comprising individual titles covering key literary genres and periods, from the Medieval period to the present. Each contains signed, authoritative articles by recognized literary scholars accompanied by substantive bibliographies. Olin Library Reference holds print editions, but we’ve now added full text online access. The currently accessible volumes include:
Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789
Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature
Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
Clicking on the blue icon in the upper-left corner of any one volume will connect to an interface that allows searching across the entire set. Additional volumes will be made accessible to Cornell patrons as they become available.
East India Company Database Now Available
Whether you’re studying British literature in the context of colonialism or researching postcolonialism from a global perspective, the East India Company database will open up a wealth of possibilities. It provides full-text access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library: royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, charting the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1600 to 1947. A guide detailing the contents and various searching options may be found at http://www.eastindiacompany.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction/Guide.
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