English Literature: February 2008 Archives

TU Libraries is currently trialing Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700.

Perdita Manuscripts contains digital facsimiles of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The manuscripts are varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical materials, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.

The trial lasts until March 6th.

Be sure to check it out, and let me know if the Libraries should add it to its collection of eResources!

Three new literary titles have been added to the Cambridge Companions series via Cambridge Collections Online as part of the January 2008 update:

• The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

• The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

• The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month!

• New American Literature Materials
• New English Literature Materials
• New Film & Media Arts Materials