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ERRATAS database data entry forms
No full textMS Access database data entry forms created for the ERRATAS project. The entire database will eventually be released.
For more, see blogs.helsinki.fi/stratas-project/ , and Anni Sairio, Samuli Kaislaniemi, Anna Merikallio & Terttu Nevalainen, “Charting orthographical reliability in a corpus of English historical letters”, ICAME Journal 42 (2018)
Code-Switching, Script-Switching, and Typeface-Switching in Early Modern English Manuscript Letters and Printed Tracts
No full text7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism
No full text"You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome
Get PDF' "You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome', edits a letter from Tolkien to Ransome held in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds. On December 13th 1937, the celebrated children’s author Arthur Ransome wrote to J. R. R. Tolkien with a few comments on Tolkien’s newly published book The Hobbit. Tolkien lost no time in replying, and his letter provides one of his earliest comments on his published fiction, and a relatively early explicit commentary on his mythic writing. This article publishes for the first time Tolkien’s response to Ransome in its entirety, and answers some of the questions regarding the chronology of Tolkien’s correspondence which arise. An analysis of the letter reveals that while, as many scholars have shown, the ‘sources’ and ‘inspirations’ of The Hobbit include the likes of Beowulf and the Poetic Edda, already in 1937—and contrary to his own later claims—Tolkien’s principal primary source for fleshing out his prose stories with characters, places, and references to historical events was the vast legendarium he had created himself
Encountering and appropriating the Other: East India Company merchants and foreign terminology
No full textThe Linguistic World of the Early English East India Company: A Study of the English Factory in Japan, 1613–1623
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