Studies on Bibliography

[17-3-1998]

[Questo messaggio arriva dalla mailing list Humanist via Giuseppe Giogliozzi. Riguarda una rivista on line di studi di bibliografia americana che puo' essere estremamente utile anche per noi italianisti]

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:10:22 +0000 (GMT)

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From: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist@kcl.ac.uk>

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Subject: 11.0627 Studies in Bibliography On-Line

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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 627.

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:46:54 -0500 (EST)

From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>

Subject: Studies in Bibliography On-Line

>> From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@etext.lib.virginia.edu>

"STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY" ONLINE:

50 YEARS OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE ON THE WEB

The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is pleased

to announce a major new website for literary study, textual scholarship, and

bibliographical analysis, which can be accessed on the Internet at

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/

In addition to information about the society, visitors will find several

large electronic text resources.

In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Bibliographical Society

has made freely available in electronic form the first forty-nine

volumes of its flagship journal, "Studies in Bibliography", a premier

publication of bibliographical studies worldwide. Users may search the

entire contents of all the volumes published 1948-1996, making this a

valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and research institutions alike.

"Studies in Bibliography" is "a virtual encyclopedia of scholarly work on

the history of books and editing over the past 50 years," according to

Thomas Tanselle, President of the Society and Vice President of the

Guggenheim Foundation. The online database will serve a wide variety of

pedagogical and research needs, reaching audiences who do not now have

ready access to the print versions:

* the high school student and teacher can find out more about the

early printings of "Hamlet" and the bearing they have on the play;

* the community college teacher can call upon the database to

collect material for a lecture on Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones";

* the research scholar working on Chaucer can extract a wealth of

data on early manuscripts of "The Canterbury Tales".

According to David L. Vander Meulen, editor of "Studies in Bibliography",

the project "honors the Society's mission to advance bibliographical and

textual scholarship, both by making existing materials accessible in new and

helpful ways and by providing a model for the retrospective conversion of

journals in the humanities."

Other notable electronic publications available at the Society's site

include "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century" and

"Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868".

• The "Shakespearean Prompt-Books" have been published in eight

volumes by the Bibliographical Society since 1960. Here, they are collected

as a single database, which includes both searchable text of the introductory

materials and collations by G. Blakemore Evans, editor of the "Riverside

Shakespeare", as well as high-quality digital facsimiles of the actual stage

texts. Whenever possible, textual references are hyperlinked to a digital

image of the passages discussed, thus facilitating easy comparison of the

two.

• "Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868,"

by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, have been collected here for the first time

also as a single, searchable database containing well over 5,000 attributions

of authorship for this popular magazine.

The entire site is accessible to users at no cost. The website is created

and maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia

Library. Questions and comments may be addressed to the Electronic Text Center

at etext@virginia.edu or (804) 924-3230, or to the Bibliographical Society at

(804) 924-7013.

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