Das DFG-geförderte Sondersammelgebiet "Allgemeine u. Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft" (SSG 7.12) versteht sich als zentrale deutsche Anlaufstelle für die komparatistische Informationsversorgung.
Primärquellen zur US-Amerikanischen Geschichte von 1859 bis 1877. Ca. 5000 Bände sind mit OCR digitalisiert. MOA ist seit 1995 ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der Cornell University und der University of Michigan. Die Hauptauswahl der Sekundärliteratur umfasst die Erscheinungsjahre 1840 bis 1900.
Although one could argue that the genre dates back millennia, Samuel Smiles coined a new term when he published Self-Help in 1859 consequently opening the floodgates to authors attempting to solve the world’s problems one narcissistic step at a time. If one searches the term “self help” in Google today, almost fifty-eight million matches will be returned. An arguably large segment of the self-help phenomena involves books that assist us in specific areas such as personal finance, knitting, or sex. The “For Dummies” publisher alone has over seventy-eight thousand titles currently available on Amazon.com. This is not a modern day marvel. A vast array of how-to books was available to readers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Starting with the premise that these books purport to be the final word on the matter, examples of early manuals, templates, recipe books, diagrams, and “(...)
Der Tutor bietet eine Einführung in die in Freiburg vorhandenen elektronischen Informationsmittel für das Fach Anglistik und eröffnet die Perspektive auf die im Internet verfügbaren Quellen.
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Lewis Carroll's children's books especially Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are widely known and celebrated. Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll, at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street from June 6 through August 31, 2003, makes a new argument for Carroll's importance as a photographer. This exhibition of vintage albumen prints from the 1850's through the 1870's organized by Douglas R. Nickel, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive American presentation of Lewis Carroll's remarkable photographic work in fifty years.
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