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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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- Description
- A nearly comprehensive collection of the works published in the English language (and non-English
language works printed in the United Kingdom) during the eighteenth century, now comprising, with
the addition in October 2009 of ECCO II, approximately 180,000 books, with 33,000,000 pages. Covers
the
full spectrum of intellectual activity in the century: literature, history, geography, law, science,
medicine, technology, the
fine arts, religion, philosophy, political science and government. Includes poems, plays, novels,
histories, travel books,
parliamentary papers, parish registers, conduct books, cook books, almanacs--all the categories and
genres published during
the period. Additional features include a chronology of the century, direct links to a series of key
documents in several fields, and an image gallery including contemporary portraits of major figures
and the famous diagram depicting the stowage plan of a British slave ship.
Translations into the English language and foreign language works printed in England (often
because of censorship) are
included, with more than 4000 French language titles and more than 3700 Latin language titles (and
even one in the Mohawk
language). Included are the complete works of 28 major figures from the period, among them Edmund
Burke, Henry Fielding,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift, plus numerous 18th Century
editions of Shakespeare and
500 separate editions of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Also included are controversial
literature on the French Revolution, the
works of philosophers like Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hume, and key women writers like Mary
Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and
Fanny Burney.
Extensive metadata allows for sophisticated searching, including
illustrations, language, publisher, and place of publication.
Researchers can thus identify translations of Rousseau published in
Dublin or Edinburgh, or French language editions of
Voltaire published in London. Scholars can search for the occurrence of
phrases like "noble savage" or look for works
containing portraits, cartoons, coats of arms, music, or genealogical
tables.
- Help
- Context sensitive help is available via the Help? button on every search screen. The help contents
page is accessible from the main page or from any individual help page.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- 1701 to 1800.
- Updating frequency
- Ongoing additions until the collection is complete.
- Sources
- Printed material, in the English language, or published in the United Kingdom or its territories,
during the 18th Century.
- Type of coverage
- Full text or Full image, with full text searching.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Based on the 18th Century component
of the
English
Short-title Catalog
and The Eighteenth Century microfilm (ALEXANDER M-FILM 2251; Guide at ALEXANDER REF
Z6621.B84B742)
- Producer/content provider
- GALE
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