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For immediate release
September 13, 2007

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Kim Steinle, Library Relations Manager
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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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