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Reconnecting the world's first global, social network!
Electronic Enlightenment is a scholarly research project of the Bodleian Libraries, , University of Oxford, and is available exclusively from Oxford University Press.
Unique access to private lives and conversations
Electronic Enlightenment (EE) is an unparalleled, evolving resource that brings the past to life, allowing you to explore both the relationships and the movement of ideas in the early modern period through its web of correspondence. This vast online searchable collection of inter-connected letters and documents range from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, giving you unprecedented access
to the first global social network!
EE launched in 2008 and now makes available over 60,000, often previously unpublished, letters and documents between 7,476 correspondents. With detailed information on the private conversations and thoughts of a wide range of both 'great' and lesser-known figures, from bankers to booksellers, philosophers to physicists, EE lets you see a whole conversation between correspondents, rather than just individual letters.
From Addison and Bentham, to Frederick the Great and Voltaire, EE provides biographical information on over 7,400 individuals, with links to 1,451 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries. Covering 48 nationalities, letters on EE are often provided in their original language including
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian, as well as Latin and Greek.
Users can now explore a hierarchical Gazetteer linking over 32,000 letters to their source location. The first publication of this developing resource includes high-resolution images of historical maps at the country level. Highlights of the latest update includes 486 new letters written to, from or about India in the long 18th century, English translations of over 200 Voltaire letters, four letters between Anna Laura Georgina Galloni dIstria and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley discussing the creation of a new society in which women had equal rights to men, and the third tranche of unique content written to, or by, Bernadin de Saint Pierre (over 350 new letters).
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 EE 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
Further information on the content of EE can be found at www.e-enlightenment.com
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