The Digital Miscellanies Index is a three-year Leverhulme-funded project that will create a freely available online database of the 1,000 poetic miscellanies published over the course of the eighteenth century.
About the project
Poetic miscellanies are vital to understanding the diversity of eighteenth-century literary culture. In mapping the contents of these popular collections, the Digital Miscellanies Index will enable researchers to know, with greater precision and scope than ever before, who was reading what, when and how.
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News & Events
The Cheerful Companion: an evening at home in the eighteenth century.
21 May, 7pm, Headington Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Come and see what the eighteenth century might have looked and sounded like in this interactive evening of song, readings, riddles and craft with Nicole Pohl, Alva, and Abigail Williams. All welcome. Please contact npohl@brookes.ac.uk to confirm a place.
LAUNCH CONFERENCE
A Miscellany of Miscellanies: popular poetic collections and the eighteenth century canon
17 September 2013, St Peter’s College Oxford
Registration
There will be a conference fee of £20 which will cover lunch, coffee, and tea. Accommodation is avaliable. The conference and database launch will be followed by ‘The Chearful Companion’, an evening of eighteenth-century music, readings, refreshments and craft. The cost of this event will be an additional £15. To find out more and register, please download and complete a form from http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/event/22/302/a_miscellany_of_miscellanies.html
MISCELLANIES ON WIKIPEDIA
Miscellanies now exist on Wikipedia! For an excellent new survey of the form and its uses, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellany
