New E-Resources at Northwestern

Lexicons of Early Modern English

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern University Library now has access to 80 Sage reference handbooks.  Access is via the Library’s catalog NUcat or from the following list.

19th Century UK Periodicals

The Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals collection covers the period 1800 to 1900. When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles, some of which exist only in a single copy, such is the fragile state of much nineteenth-century printed material. – Publisher’s blurb.

The database will contain over six million pages of nineteenth-century journalism, fully searchable, sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries.   Records for individual titles will be available via NUcat shortly.

English Studies in Africa

Since it was established in 1958, English Studies in Africa has published some of the key interventions in literary studies.   The journal has emphasized, as its name attests, the study of world literature in English within African contexts, at the same time as it set about promoting the study of African literature worldwide.  – Publisher’s blurb.

Word and Image

Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime areas of humanistic criticism. Word & Image provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on this special study of the relations between words and images. Themed issues are considered occasionally on their merits. – Publisher’s blurb.

Journal of Beckett Studies

The Journal of Beckett Studies is the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies.  Each issue contains an introduction followed by a number of essays or notes. There are also review essays, reviews of books and reviews of performances in each issue, and letters of reply where such are required. -  Publisher’s blurb.

Shakespeare Survey

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances.  Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. – Publisher’s blurb.

Poe Studies : History, Theory, Interpretation

Poe Studies provides a forum for interpretive, cumulative dialogue about Poe’s life and writings; about the cultural and material contexts that conditioned the production and reception of his work; and about his interrelationships with other writers, especially those who work in traditions of dark romanticism. – Publisher’s blurb.

Perdita Manuscripts : Women Writers, 1500-1700

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations.

This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. – Publisher’s blurb.

Collected Letters of John Millington Synge

Part of the Oxford University Press Past Masters series, this database contains:

Synge, J. M. The collected letters of John Millington Synge. Volume I: 1871-1907. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1983.

Synge, J. M. The collected letters of John Millington Synge. Volume II: 1907-1909. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1984.