Electronic Enlightenment: letters & lives
. . . reconnecting the first global social network!
Spring 2025 Update
This update adds 40 born digital letters edited by Electronic Enlightenment’s interns and visiting researchers, the results of ongoing collaborations with Bodleian Libraries Special Collections and beyond. read more…
Phillis Wheatley Peters
Phillis Wheatley’s Poems (1773) and letters combine to form a radical assertion of authorship, identity, and intellect. In this post, Kate Davies explores their significance in eighteenth-century literary and cultural history. read more…
Alongside this update we are delighted to publish a collection of articles from our student collaborators. Take a look at our news-sheet to find our more about the projects they worked on or head straight to the blog to read their posts.
Created with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Electronic Enlightenment is a pioneering digital resource for the study of the letter and its place in the rich writing cultures of the ‘long’ eighteenth century. Working from best critical editions, and in collaboration with a large network of university presses, editors, scholars, and students we continue to grow by adding more archive/print editions and commissioning born-digital correspondences.
