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Alexander Street Press Premieres Series of Scholarly Religious Texts Debut Collection Highlights Seminal Works in Christianity

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press premieres its newest series Twentieth Century Religious Thought with a volume of seminal text materials in the Christian tradition.

Volume I: Christianity is the debut collection in the four-volume series that brings together online the written works of the 20th century’s most influential worldwide religious thinkers. The collection will grow to include 150,000 pages of scholarship from key theologians—100,000 pages of published writings paired with complementary archival resources.

Content in Volume I: Christianity reflects the increasingly global and pluralistic character of religious scholarship by including voices from other religions that have generated meaningful interfaith dialogue. It also incorporates works from members of previously marginalized groups, among them key feminist theologians and scholars. The more than 30 contributing scholars include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jurgen Moltmann, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dorothee Soëlle, Gustavo Gutièrrez, and Henri de Lubac.

The collection incorporates content from the field’s leading partners including Fortress Press and Ignatius Press. An editorial board advises on the inclusion of materials, and is comprised of experts including Rosemary Radford Ruether, professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont School of Theology; Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Christian studies professor at

Georgetown University; David Stubbs, Professor of Ethics and Theology at Western Theological Seminary; David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham; and others.

“The multi-faith, multicultural focus of the Twentieth Century Religious Thought series will provide a remarkable tool for analysis and comparison,” said Nathalie Duval, Editor at Alexander Street Press. “The nuance and detail of these materials makes them valuable for scholars of all branches of religion.”

Future releases in the series will include Volume II: Islam; Volume III: Judaism; and Volume IV: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. Volume I: Christianity will be available online to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. Prices are scaled to institutional size and budget.

All volumes in the Twentieth Century Religious Thought series will be cross-searchable with The Digital Karl Barth Library through a single interface. To request a free trial or price quote, please e-mail sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
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Alexander Street Press Premieres Australasian Archive

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ETHNOGRAPHIC AND HISTORY OFFERINGS GROW AT ALEXANDER STREET PRESS

December 12, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press’s newest collection, Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901, showcases intimate archival materials from the early days of the region’s history.

Early Experiences in Australasia delivers instant access to firsthand documents that illuminate the realities of life from the arrival of the continent’s first settlers through to the 1901 establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia. The collection launches with nearly 12,000 pages of primary source content from more than 1,500 sources—including personal letters, diaries, narratives, and photographs.

During 2013, the collection will grow to 100,000 pages, with new material from multiple archives and publishers sharing accounts of life across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

A significant portion of the collection is previously unpublished, and documents are carefully cultivated by experts to ensure a representation of diverse perspectives and experiences. Early Experiences in Australasia grants an unprecedented understanding of how men and women, settlers and indigenous peoples, explorers, soldiers, and officials experienced arriving on ships, the gold rush, the process of federation, and more.

Students and scholars can use Alexander Street Press’s Semantic Indexing™ to search by date, person, subject, and more, generating detailed results that give voices to many whose experiences have previously been lost to history. Users can learn more about how the British government encouraged female immigrants, how settling groups interacted with native populations, and the differences between rural and bush life.

“Early Experiences in Australasia exemplifies our mission of making silent voices heard,” said Dan Hamid, Sales Manager at Alexander Street Press. “The vibrancy and diversity of the materials bring this period, and those who lived through it, to life.”

Early Experiences in Australasia is available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. No special setup or software is required—all you need is a Web browser. Prices are scaled to institutional size and budget. To request a free trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

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Stieg Larsson's Partner Discusses Themes Of The Millennium Trilogy In The New Release From Filmakers Library

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OCTOBER 6, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium: As Viewed by Eva Gabrielsson, His Partner to its collection of films.

With over 46 million copies of the Millennium Trilogy sold worldwide, the various meanings and themes of the late Stieg Larsson’s work have inevitably been debated and sensationalized in many circles. Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson’s partner of 32 years, is now trying to set the record straight, explaining that though many consider the books to be mysteries and action stories, Larsson’s intention was to create “a critical portrait of women’s oppression in a patriarchal society.”

The film follows Gabrielsson as she works with a Danish theatre company on a stage version of the first book in the series, a version that highlights the social critique and feminist themes that she feels have been underrepresented in the various mainstream film versions of the series.

“To have an inside look at the creative process behind this popular literary series is extremely fortunate,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “With the loss of Stieg Larsson, thoughts of knowing the true literary intent of his novels seemed like a pipe dream; but now, thanks to Gabrielsson, literary circles have the chance to get a glimpse not only into the intent of the series, but into the everyday life of its author.”

Larsson’s apartment, one of his favorite places to work, and other places that inspired the settings within the Millennium Trilogy are shown while Gabrielsson explains their meanings and remembers the life she shared with Larsson.

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium is currently available for purchase on DVD. Starting in mid-October, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium: As Viewed by Eva Gabrielsson, His Partner or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
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Ethnography Video Offerings Grow at Alexander Street Press

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ETHNOGRAPHY VIDEO OFFERINGS GROW AT ALEXANDER STREET PRESS

November 20, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press’s ethnography resources continue to expand and diversify with the addition of the new video collection Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II.

This second volume of the Ethnographic Video Online collection focuses closely on current issues such as environmental crises, refugee migration, and endangered languages. It will also include the high-value archival material Alexander Street anthropology collections have come to be known for.

Global in scope, the collection features works from a roster of diverse international filmmakers and includes footage from every continent. It will grow to include 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries, field recordings, and previously unpublished footage from targeted anthropological archives such as the Grenada Centre of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Among the collection’s key content is RAI’s six-part series from Central Television, Strangers Abroad, which documents the link between the “armchair anthropologist” and the modern field worker/scholar by presenting footage of the pioneering ethnographers who lived among the people they studied. Titles in this series include Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age, Franz Boas’s The Shackles of Tradition, and Bronislaw Malinowski’s Off the Verandah.

Also featured are:

The Asia Pacific Films collection, which provides strong representation of Oceania with films by Caroline Yacoe, Garin Nugroho, Uruphong Raksasad, Stephanie Castillo, and Vilsoni Hereniko.
Additional RAI series developed for the UK’s National Geographic, Channel 4.
Forbidden Rites, a series produced for National Geographic that includes films on cannibalism, head hunting, and human sacrifice.
Internationally recognized films from ZED, including Becoming a Man, Master of the Spirits, and Lands of Legends.
Celebrated archival content, including 1963 film Were Ni! He Is a Madman, focused on the Yoruba of Nigeria and their treatment of psychiatric disorders.

“Far from a historical subject, ethnography is a field that continues to evolve,” said Will Whalen, Vice President of Licensing at Alexander Street Press. “Our collection illustrates the impacts of our changing world that are vital to studying and understanding this discipline today.”

Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II is available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. It can be used as a standalone resource or seamlessly integrated with other Alexander Street anthropology collections—including the first volume of Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online, a full-text companion collection, which is being demoed at the American Anthropology Association annual meeting in San Francisco.

No special setup or software is required—all you need is an Internet browser. Prices are scaled to institutional size and budget. To request a free trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

University Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Study Alexander Street's Counseling Films

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September 18, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Films from Alexander Street Press’s counseling collections will serve as the basis for a new academic study on sexual orientation in the psychotherapy session. The study will be conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee, and is made possible by a $60,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Co-investigators Patrick Grzanka of Arizona State University and Joe Miles of the University of Tennessee will use twenty educational videos from Alexander Street Press’s recent counseling collections to conduct their research. The source material for their studies is more than 1,200 minutes of content, including actual psychotherapy sessions, simulated sessions, and documentary content.

By rigorously and methodically examining these films using qualitative methods, Grzanka and Miles hope to examine how therapists work with their clients to develop shared ideas about sexual orientation. The research team will also examine how psychologists and clients in the videos connect sexual orientation to other mental health issues, such as depression, and other forms of identity, including race and religion.

“Alexander Street’s counseling films are a powerful set of data for study,” says Grzanka. “They offer rare and authentic examples of how psychotherapists view discussions of sexual orientation and how they approach treatment. They are ripe for sociological inquiry into the practice of psychological science as it pertains to sexuality, which has historically been such a contentious issue in psychology.”

“We’re pleased to provide the content that will inform this important research,” says Elizabeth Robey, Counseling and Therapy Editor at Alexander Street Press. “These counseling films aren’t just impacting the classroom; they’re contributing directly to the field of research.”

Grzanka and Miles aim to present their initial findings at several forthcoming research conferences, develop articles on their results for science and technology journals, and build a searchable database of relevant literature to be hosted at www.socialactionrt.org.

Alexander Street Press’s counseling and therapy portfolio includes hundreds of films and more than one thousand hours of content across four collections, with more content added regularly. Collections include The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, volumes I and II of Counseling and Therapy in Video, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works. For more information, please visit: http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/counseling-and-therapy.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Unprecedented Archives of Black Studies in Video from Alexander Street Press

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September 10, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press announces the release of Black Studies in Video, the newest streaming video collection in its award-winning black studies portfolio.

Black Studies in Video will weave together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain five hundred hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

The collection draws from partnerships with organizations such as California Newsreel, the US’s oldest nonprofit social issue documentary film center. Through this collaboration, Black Studies in Video will offer exclusive access to the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of more than fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs that took place at the fiftieth anniversary conference and reunion commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Black Studies in Video includes documentaries on leading artists, writers, musicians, playwrights, and performers, such as Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, Frantz Fanon, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Eldridge Cleaver, August Wilson, Bobby Seale, Ethel Waters, Amiri Baraka, and Robert F. Williams.

Other planned key content includes films from notable filmmaker Marlon Riggs: Color Adjustment, Black Is…Black Ain’t, and Ethnic Notions; and materials from the Hatch-Billops Collection, a critically acclaimed archive of primary and secondary resource materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature.

“Black Studies in Video is a core collection that embodies our goal of making silent voices heard,” says Vice President of Licensing Will Whalen. “It builds off our earlier databases in black drama, literature, history, sociology, and culture to provide some of the most important video content in the field.”

Black Studies in Video is currently available worldwide to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or onetime purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, or to request a trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

More Than 1,000 Videos Available Exclusively from Alexander Street

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) — Alexander Street Press announces the launch of the Academic Video Store, with more than 1,400 individual video titles covering a broad range of subjects such as counseling, dance, criminal justice, ethnomusicology and science. Many of the titles have won prestigious awards—Emmys, Oscars, CINE Golden Eagle Awards—and are already frequently used in classrooms across the country. Now, for the first time, they’re available in streaming format.

The store features titles from numerous publishers, including Aquarius, Chip Taylor Productions, and Line of Duty. It’s the exclusive source for more than 300 titles from therapy and counseling publisher Microtraining. It also contains more than 1,000 exclusive titles from Filmakers Library like Stieg Larsson’s Millennium, an inside look at the life and works of Stieg Larsson through his partner, Eva Gabrielsson; and the Cinema for Peace and Justice award winner, Blood in the Mobile, a riveting documentary revealing the link between Congolese mining and mobile phones. New titles are being added at a rate in excess of 250 per month.

Credit card purchasing and instant access mean that academics and librarians alike can purchase titles in a matter of minutes before showing them in classroom settings. Every sale comes with institutional viewing rights, so an academic who buys a single title does so for the whole of his/her institution. A full suite of online tools makes it possible to link and embed videos in courseware such as Moodle and Blackboard.

Libraries and media centers will find that titles purchased in the store are cross-searchable with other Alexander Street video collections and titles under a single URL. Alexander Street also provides MARC records and a method for integrating titles into discovery services.

The store is expected to grow to more than 7,500 titles by the end of 2012. Danny Costa, Director of Distribution at Alexander Street, said “We’re eager to hear from producers and rights holders that might want to have their films distributed in this way.”

Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street Press said “We’re planning to make sure that all titles in the store are top quality; that we’ve got the largest selection, with plenty of exclusive material; that we’ve got the best tools to help buyers find what they’re looking for; and that the titles are delivered with the highest quality and functionality. This launch is the first step towards fulfilling that vision.”

The site includes a free screening room, currently featuring Precious Cargo: Vietnamese Adoptees Discover Their Past. Simply click on the link to view the film in its entirety.

Visit the Academic Video Store at www.academicvideostore.com

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Art Therapy For People Deemed “Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity" Is Explored In New Film From Alexander Street Press

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DECEMBER 21, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) — Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of Lens and Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place to their catalog of film titles.

This hopeful and uplifting film by Deborah J. Schull introduces viewers to the Lens, Pens, Brushes and Friends program at the John Howard Pavilion—the former maximum-security wing of Washington, DC’s historic St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The program provides classes in poetry, photography and painting to people who were deemed mentally ill after being charged with a crime. Through interviews with the program’s co-founders, group leaders and three program participants, viewers are shown how art can build confidence and encourage the patients to express themselves.

According to Ed Washington, co-founder of Lens, Pens, Brushes and Friends, the program uses art as a vehicle for communication, a way to start changing societal perceptions about people who are mentally ill. One former inpatient interviewed in the film suggests that the program goes even further by changing individuals’ perceptions of themselves – “It’s wonderful to have an image in my own mind of someone I can be.”

“This film is a testimony to the saying, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover,’” said Sue Oscar, co-founder of Filmakers Library. “The people featured show us that talent, creativity and inspiration can come in any package. Without a doubt, scholars of counseling and art therapy will find this film very worthwhile.”

Lens and Pens is the recipient of numerous honors including the Mental Health America Media Award and an Honorable Mention at the 2010 Voice Awards by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Lens and Pens is currently available for purchase on DVD and, for the first time, in streaming video format through the Academic Video Store. Also, later this month this film will be available as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel.

For more information on Lens and Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Previously Unpublished Material Highlighted in New Collections in Anthropology and Music

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December 21, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press announces the launch of two highly anticipated collections: Classical Scores Library: Volume II, the first online score collection for libraries composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers; and Anthropology Online, a comprehensive resource that at completion will contain more than 100,000 pages of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs and contemporary studies from major archives around the world—many previously unpublished.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II complements and expands on the critically acclaimed Classical Scores Library with a focus on major composers not represented in the first collection; new contemporary scores by major living composers around the world; and critical editions of compositions that are lesser known but often studied. Items that are typically unavailable in print in library collections are now available online for viewing and study—including scores of many self-published composers. The collection includes composers such as Michael Tippett, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel and many others.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II is a comprehensive resource, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and more, all available in fast-loading JPG format. Users can access full scores, go directly to individual movements, zoom in to examine specific measures and tempo markings, and print scores for personal or class study and notation. As part of Alexander Street’s Music Online suite of music reference and listening collections, Classical Scores Library: Volume II can be cross searched with other Music Online collections from a single interface.

Anthropology Online brings together works ranging from the 19^th century to the present day, covering all areas of the discipline, with a special focus given to outside the developed world. Including areas such as cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, applied anthropology, archeology, and urban anthropology, this collection is the full-text equivalent to Alexander Street’s ethnographic video database, Ethnographic Video Online.

As such, Anthropology Online is cross-searchable with Ethnographic Video Online, providing users with the unique ability to both read about and watch human behavior specific to their research needs; and the collection’s deep indexing allows searching by geographical region, cultural or kinship group, anthropological subjects and more. Key anthropologists represented in the collection include Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, David MacDougall and many more.

“With the launch of these collections, we have met our goal of expanding our music and anthropology offerings with additional content related to two well used projects, an expansion requested by many of our customers,” said Eileen Lawrence, vice president of sales and marketing. “Anthropology Online is the full text partner to Ethnographic Video Online, Classical Scores Library: Volume II extends its predecessor, and at the same time each collection can stand on its own. Thoughtfully curated and semantically indexed, these collections are must haves for libraries catering to programs in music, anthropology, geography, world studies, and related areas.”

More information about Classical Scores Library: Volume II; more information about Anthropology Online. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:

Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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703-212-8520 x 116
adegregorio [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Press Launches Collection Of Romantic-Era Literature

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OCTOBER 27, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, announces the release of Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle, an online collection of romantic-era literature previously unavailable in electronic format.

Romanticism Redefined contains over 120,000 pages of primary texts from London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, as well as another 10,000 pages comprising the only complete digital version of The Wordsworth Circle, a quarterly international academic journal for the study of English Romantic literature, culture and society.

“We are extremely excited to offer this collection to scholars of the romantic era,” noted Isabel Lacerda, editor of Romanticism Redefined. “Scholars and students can now rediscover these works in a new way through our full-text searching and Semantic Indexing, allowing for the tracing of new relationships among the works.”

Focusing on the “second generation” of writings, those from 1800-1830, Romanticism Redefined contains important texts that are often overlooked. With an emphasis on literature – poetry, novels, short fiction and drama – but also containing letters and diaries; political, philosophical, theological and sociological works; literary criticism; historical writings and more, the collection brings access to previously inaccessible works.

Selected titles from Pickering & Chatto’s collection include Conduct Literature for Women, 1770-1830 (six volumes); Works of Charlotte Smith (fourteen volumes), Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (three volumes) and Parodies of the Romantic Age (five volumes). Also featured are the works of notable writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Joanna Baillie, Thomas DeQuincey, William Godwin and Mary Russell Mitford.

Read more information on Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

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