Alexander Street Press has made 4 databases available until 30 November:

• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
• The Karl Barth Digital Library
• Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle

See Electronic Resources Trials page on Camelot for login details (login details are not to be disclosed beyond UC)

Database descriptions (provided by ASP)…

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
A uniquely valuable resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. With 845 titles by 277 authors, the collection is a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, social and political works, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other key documents from this critical epoch in European history.

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. The database enables in-depth browsing and searching of a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other works by hundreds of Protestant authors.

The Karl Barth Digital Library
In association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, Alexander Street Press is pleased to offer the first major online collection of Karl Barth’s works. Combining comprehensiveness with a carefully crafted set of text-analysis tools, The Digital Karl Barth Library will support a new generation of research into the works of one of the twentieth century’s most influential theologians. The current release features the English translation of Barth’s magnum opus, The Church Dogmatics, in its entirety. The original German version, Die kirchliche Dogmatik, is also included as are the first 45 volumes of Barth’s Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. These volumes are supplemented by seven additional German works that have not yet been published as part of the Gesamtausgabe and English translations of thirteen important texts by Barth.

Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle
To strengthen the project, we’ve arranged with Pickering & Chatto to license an additional 20,000 pages of high-quality critical editions. These Pickering & Chatto items, along with the authoritative journal, The Wordsworth Circle, together make a new collection that is 100% in-copyright, much stronger than the old collection. We’re calling the new collection Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle.

Through a partnership with London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, the preeminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences, 120,000 pages of the Pickering & Chatto catalog are included in Romanticism Redefined. These highly regarded editions are available and searchable in electronic form here for the first time, allowing scholars to examine the texts in new ways. Dozens of critical essays by leading scholars, commissioned by Pickering & Chatto, add rich context to the writings.

While the emphasis is on literature—poetry, novels, short fiction, and drama—there are also letters and diaries; political, philosophical, theological and sociological works; literary criticism; historical writings; speeches, lectures, and conversations; travel and exploration literature; and other forms. And with a focus on the “second generation” of writings, in the years from 1800 to 1830, Romanticism Redefined adds something distinctly new to academic study, bringing access to previously inaccessible works.

Also included is The Wordsworth Circle, an international academic journal for the study of English Romantic literature, culture, and society. Romanticism Redefined provides the only digital version of the complete run of the journal, and new issues will be added as they become available.

Many of these important texts are long overlooked. Readers can rediscover the works and trace new relationships among them. Selected titles from Pickering & Chatto’s Romanticism collection include:
*Conduct Literature for Women, 1770-1830 (six volumes) *Works of Charlotte Smith (fourteen volumes) *Literature and Science (eight volumes) *Works of Thomas De Quincey (twenty-one volumes) *Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (three volumes) *Parodies of the Romantic Age (five volumes)

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