Women's Genre Fiction
From Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
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| Funding Agency: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
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| Project Information URL: | http://womenwriters.library.emory.edu/genrefiction/ |
| Status: | Ongoing |
The Women's Genre Fiction Project, a part of the Emory Women Writers Resource Project, offers students and scholars access to searchable electronic editions of genre fiction by women. The project encompasses both British and American fiction written from 1860 to 1920. The project includes approximately three hundred digital texts, and features scholarly essays that introduce and discuss genre fiction and the range of texts included in this project.
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[edit] Goals and Objectives
The goals of this project are:
- Create a website that provides access to a full-text database of genre fiction written by and about women.
[edit] Project Details
a selection from the Women's Genre Fiction Collection
Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library houses an extensive collection of detective, crime, and romance novels and provided the source texts for this digitization project. The Women's Genre Fiction Project publishes an unprecedented collection of female-authored and female-centered texts from a range of genres, as well as the largest searchable database of digitized genre fiction. By disseminating texts that have been under-represented in library collections, the database facilitates scholarly work and teaching in a range of areas, including American and British history and literature, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture, and women's studies. Publishing these works in electronic format also reduces unnecessary handling of the fragile originals, thus helping to preserve them.
This Beck Center project was made possible by a three year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
