New: North American Indian Drama
The Library has recently purchased access to Alexander Street Press’s North American Indian Drama, an online resource containing the full text of 244 plays by 48 American Indian, First Nation, and Pacific Islander playwrights of the 20th century; information about the plays and their production, and biographical data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada, including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights’ newsletter.
Cambridge History of American Poetry (in two dimensions)
The just-published Cambridge History of American Poetry is available at the Library in both print form (Olin PS 303 C29 2015) and online. Of special interest to Cornellians is Chapter 40, “Science in Contemporary Poetry: Ammons and Others,” by the English Dept.’s Prof. Roger Gilbert. The online volume is accessible via the library catalog record, as well as through Cambridge Histories Online, which provides full text online access to the complete 300-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series.
Parker Library on the Web
Students and scholars of Anglo-Saxon literature will be glad to know that the Library has acquired access to Parker Library on the Web, an interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library’s holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred’s translation of Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care. Other subjects represented in the collection are music, medieval travelogues and maps, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library also holds a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts.
Early English Newspapers Now Online
Cornell literary scholars and historians of the 17th and 18th centuries will welcome the addition of the British Library’s Burney Collection Newspapers to our growing roster of digital primary sources. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers presents the titles from the Burney collection of newspapers, pamphlets, ephemera, and other early newspaper forms (corantos, newsbooks) in a high-resolution digital format with searchable text and images. Most of the 1270 titles included were published in London, though scattered newspapers from the provinces and the colonies are also represented.
Remembering Jon Stallworthy
As the Library commemorates the centenary of World War I in events and exhibitions, it seems appropriate to note the recent passing of Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) — Cornell’s John Wendell Anderson Professor of English from 1977 to 1986 — at his home in Oxford, England. Editor, biographer, translator, anthologist, and acclaimed poet in his own right, Prof. Stallworthy was widely known for his prolific scholarship on the poetry of World War I and was regarded as the preeminent authority on the life and work of Wilfred Owen. Prof. Stallworthy’s most recent publications — the poetry collection War Poet (2014) and an updated edition of The New Oxford Book of War Poetry (2014) — along with more than 40 of his earlier biographies, anthologies, and volumes of verse, can be found in Olin Library. In a series of clips posted to YouTube this past summer, Jon Stallworthy considered the reasons why the poetry of World War I is still important and talked about his favorite war poems.
Digital Images for Teaching
Wish you could easily digitize photographs, slides, or images from books to use in your classroom teaching? The College of Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the Cornell University Library now supports the digitization, metadata creation, and upload of images on Luna Insight and ARTstor. This is a free service to the A&S College faculty and researcher. Additional details are available on the Library’s Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) web page, or contact DCAPS via email at dcaps@cornell.edu.
Foreign Fields: Perspectives on the Great War
Monday, November 10
4:30 to 6:30 pm
Amit Bhatia ’01 Libe Café, Olin Library
Join us for a special event featuring international members of the Cornell community who will read excerpts from poems, diary entries, letters, and other documents written during the “Great War” in their languages of origin.
This event is part of the project, Foreign Fields: Perspectives on the Great War, which explores the cultural and political frontiers of World War One through an exhibition in Olin Library, commemorating one hundred years since the beginning of the first World War.
This project has been made possible by a Luigi Einaudi Chair Innovation Grant from the Cornell Institute for European Studies and by Cornell University Library. Reception to follow at 5:30 pm. Free and open to the public. For more information, visit https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/foreignfields.
New: Popular Culture in Britain & America, 1950-1975
Few periods in American and British history witnessed as expressive and outspoken a literary flowering as the three decades following World War II. Beat poetry, experimental fiction, the Black Arts Movement, gay and lesbian writing, and guerrilla theater flourished amid social and political upheavals that would transform our cultures in ways unimaginable before the 1950s. Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 constitutes an archive of primary sources that document these transformations “from the inside,” presenting manuscripts, underground publications, fanzines, photographs, press kits, posters, video and other rare materials long unavailable in digital form. If your research interests gravitate to the mid-20th century, you’ll find a great deal here to deepen your understanding of the era.
Cornell Writers in OverDrive
OverDrive, the Library’s online provider of e-books and audio books, contains fiction titles by some of Cornell’s most renowned faculty and alumni writers. If you own a Kindle device/app or have an Adobe Digital Editions account, you can download e-books by Alison Lurie, Robert Morgan, Junot Diaz, J. Robert Lennon, Helena Maria Viramontes, Lorrie Moore, Paul McEuen, and more. Just click on the Overdrive link under the Services column on the CU Library homepage.
LION Gets a Facelift
If you’re a frequent user of Literature Online (LION) you may have noticed a big change in its appearance recently. The content from the previous Chadwyck-Healey version — including the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL); the many full text collections of canonical poetry, drama, and prose; literary reference works; video and audio archives; 402 full-text academic journals; bibliographies, etc. — remains in the new Proquest interface and is now augmented by enhanced search functions and compatibility with tablets and smartphones. A rich source for both primary and secondary material, LION serves as a useful companion database to the MLA International Bibliography.
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