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Scan, Baby, Scan

By Alfred Brophy

Well, the books.google scan team has finally made it to the University of Virginia -- and I say, not a moment too soon.  As I'm working on some footnotes on my antebellum literary address paper (UNC version, of course) I see that a couple of works I've been looking out for are now up on books.google.  Like ... Henry Clay Pate's The American vade mecum: or, The companion of youth, and guide to college. And a couple of issues of The Collegian, the UVA literary magazine.  The first volume has an essay on the printing press, which I've been meaning to read.  All of this reminds me that I need to finish my post on the image of the printing press in the antebellum mind.  They're got the 1849 Virginia code up as well.  

And so it's time to give a cheer to books.google for pushing back, yet again, the frontiers of antebellum history.  Now, if they'd just get the rest of the UVA literary addresses up there -- and then move on down the road a piece to Chapel Hill.....

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).