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Electronic Enlightenment is a scholarly research project of the Bodleian Library , University of Oxford, and is available exclusively from Oxford University Press.
Unique access to private lives and conversations
Electronic Enlightenment brings the past to life through its web of correspondence: eavesdrop on bankers and booksellers, clockmakers and colonists, engineers and explorers, politicians and poets, physicians and philosophers, scientists and musicians. It offers unrivalled access to the best editions of primary sources in original languages.
The website offers the
user the opportunity to cross-search letters from 7,230 correspondents including: Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Boyle, Catherine the Great, Mme du Châtelet, Defoe, Descartes, Ferguson, Flamsteed, Frederick the Great, Gustavus III, Halley, Hobbes, Humes, Locke, Newton, Pope, Price, Richardson, Rousseau, Smith, Steele, Sterne, Swift, and Voltaire. Electronic Enlightenment provides biographical information on over 7,200 individuals, with links to over 1,400 ODNB biographies.
EE gives online access to 59,489 letters and documents from the best critical editions, including letters in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian, as well as Latin and Greek.
EE includes letters to, from, or about Europe, North and South America
(including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela), Australia, and Asia (including China, India, Kazakhstan, and Turkey).
Latest content includes a new edition of the letters of Andre Morellet, and a new edition of the correspondence of Voltaire,
EE now allows users to search and browse letters by location, to find geographical information for every letter and person in EE for whom information is available, alongside high-resolution historical maps.
Features include:
--Cross-search letters from 7,230 correspondents
--Online access to 59,489 letters and documents
--Cross-search a bibliographic database of over 95,000 early edition sources, including information on both
manuscript and early editions
--Original language critical editions - includes letters in French, German and Italian as well as English
--Expanding network of external links to other online resources - from Chambers' Cyclopaedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
--Twice yearly functional upgrades and content updates regularly throughout the year
Excellent functionality:
--Search and browse by writer, recipient, date, location, and content of the letters
--Unique IDs and static URLs at the level of individual correspondence and correspondents make it easy to link to Electronic Enlightenment directly from other resources
--Get involved in content and connections - contribute new
letters or suggest new editions
--User-friendly help pages will guide users through the resource
A range of subscriber services:
--Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support
--Detailed usage statistics allow you to track how often your users are accessing Electronic Enlightenment
--More than 4000 MARC21 records available free of charge
Electronic Enlightenment uses the best critical editions of correspondence. The content currently includes editions from Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, the Voltaire Foundation (Oxford), and the University of Toronto Press.
Future updates will include further
editions from these and the following presses: University of Delaware, Duke University, University of Georgia, Johns Hopkins University, Felix Meiner (Hamburg), Norsteds (Stockholm), Office for History of Science and Technology (University of California, Berkeley), Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki (Florence), Pickering & Chatto (London), Royal Historical Society, Virginia Historical Society and University of Wales.
Further information on the content of EE can be found at www.e-enlightenment.com
Lost letters discovered by Oxford University Professor, now available online at Electronic Enlightenment. Professor Nicholas Cronk has uncovered 14 letters by Voltaire from his 2 year stay in England, showing Voltaire using an anglicised version of his name for the
first time (Francis) and accepting £200 from the British government. "The letters are very interesting because they show how Voltaire's close interaction with the English aristocracy exposed him to Enlightenment ideas" (Prof. Cronk). For more information visit www.e-enlightenment.com/info/about/media
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