Tag: English

  • Early English Books Online

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    eyoung

    Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the…

  • Understanding Edmund White

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    eyoung

    Nicholas Radel, a professor of English at Furman University, has published a new book, Understanding Edmund White.  The book is published by the University of South Carolina Press and is part of the Understanding American Literature Series. Understanding Edmund White is the first book-length critical study of the work of America’s best-known gay novelist.  Radel…

  • Fish or Cut Bait

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    eyoung

    This year’s freshman class includes 44 international students, representing 17 foreign countries.  Most of these students are already fluent in English.  But American idioms and slang can sometimes be confusing.  The Reference Collection has several slang and idiom dictionaries which are helpful and interesting to browse. Here are a few idioms from the Cambridge Idioms…

  • ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) is here.

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    Steve

      The library now offers access to ECCO, a vast collection of Enlightenment expression. Within the eighteenth century every subject of thinking and discourse from the presses of England primarily, with Europe and America represented as well.History and Geography; Social Sciences and Fine Arts; Science, Technology, and Medicine;Literature and Language; Philosophy and Religion; Law; General…

  • Emily Dickinson: Civil War Poetry CLP

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    eyoung

    The  English Department and the Furman University Libraries are joining to present: “I’m Sorry for the dead…” Emily Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry April 12, 2012  – 4pm Pitts Room, Duke Library, 2nd Floor CLP As the country celebrates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (1861-1865) and National Poetry Month, this lecture will introduce students to the…

  • Listen to The Writer’s Almanac for your health

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    eyoung

    There is about a moment at 11AM on weekdays during which the speed of time is clocked slow, a second equalling a minute, so that a single piano intro to a public radio spot called The Writer’s Almanac can enter your morning via the crack between seconds. Garrison Keillor‘s voice has the effect of a soporific, teasing the duty-bound…