This archival project will provide an online multimedia collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific poems, novels, treatises, and illustrations. Covering the fields of botany, zoology, geology, chemistry, astronomy, etc., it will appeal to literary scholars and historians of science alike. The archive will be fully searchable, including effective pedagogical tools to help students understand the important overlaps of literature and science in this era.
This project constitutes an online accompaniment to The Complete Works of Anne Finch (Cambridge UP, 2013), edited by Jennifer Keith and Claudia Kairoff. It will be an open-access digital archive, meaning an online multimedia collection and organization of data, including high-quality digital facsimiles of original materials. The site will be fully searchable, providing transcriptions of poems as well as effective teaching tools and scroll-over maps.