Duke University Press launches the Carlyle Letters Online

[Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

Apologies for cross postings.

For immediate release
September 13, 2007

Duke University Press launches the Carlyle Letters Online on 
HighWire Press, available at no charge to institutions and 
individuals

Duke University Press announces the launch at 
http://carlyleletters.org of the Carlyle Letters Online: A 
Victorian Cultural Reference, the electronic edition of The 
Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

A fully digitized version of one of the most comprehensive 
literary archives of the nineteenth century, the Carlyle Letters 
Online features thousands of letters written by Scottish author 
and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) and his wife, Jane 
Welsh Carlyle (1801 - 1866), to over six hundred recipients 
throughout the world.

In part because of grants from the National Endowment for the 
Humanities and the Delmas Foundation, the Carlyle Letters Online 
is currently available at no charge to institutions and 
individuals.

Undertaken in partnership with HighWire Press, a division of 
Stanford University Libraries, the Carlyle Letters Online is one 
of the first electronic scholarly editions to be published by a 
university press. Leveraging HighWire's award-winning online 
hosting platform and suite of features, the collection offers 
users an unprecedented level of functionality and 
personalization.

Designed as a 'collection that knows itself,' each letter in the 
collection is comprehensively indexed and searchable by date, 
subject, and recipient, with similar letters linked to each other 
through a vast web of interconnectivity that encourages discovery 
and facilitates research. Users may also take advantage of a 
simple and free registration to employ an array of personalized 
features, including saved searches; access to a 'My Carlyle 
Folder,' in which users can create a personal archive; and 
options for managing personal alerts to find out when the site is 
updated.

Created for scholars of all levels, from high school students to 
professionals, the collection allows users to explore the 
Victorian era from the unique vantage point of two people placed 
squarely at the geographic, political, and intellectual center of 
their century. While a critical reference for Victorian scholars, 
the Carlyle Letters Online aims also to encourage 
interdisciplinary study, appealing not just to students of 
literature and history but also to those of politics, economic 
history, and women's studies.

For more information about the Carlyle Letters Online, including 
coordinating editor Brent E. Kinser's introduction to the 
Carlyles, the history of the print edition, and the history of 
the electronic project, please visit http://carlyleletters.org.

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Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
ksteinle@dukeupress.edu
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