Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that users of the British Library will now be able to use the Electronic Enlightenment (EE) online resource as part of a two year trial. The trial begins this month in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of the poet, playwright, and publisher Robert Dodsley.
EE claims to be the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th centuries. Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an "electronic bookshelf" of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing one to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.
Electronic Enlightenment is a project based at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and distributed by Oxford University Press. It is available by annual subscription to institutions and individuals worldwide.
