Widening the range of our digital resources: Object Lessons Archive 2015-2018
As a result of conversations with academic colleagues across the humanities, the library has purchased the , a digital collection of monographs published by Bloomsbury.
The 鈥極bject Lessons鈥� series emerged out of The Atlantic Monthly鈥檚 heralded and looks in depth at 鈥榯he hidden lives of ordinary things鈥� from a variety of perspectives and theoretical approaches. Averaging at c.25,000 words, each text focuses on a single topic to offer a fresh and often surprising focus on the materials of the everyday and question the quotidian in a manner that complements the fundamental critical practice of taking nothing for granted.
In addition to being of general interest to anyone involved in cultural studies, and intra-disciplinary research groupings as diverse as the , the and , the archive offers a virtual complement to the object-focused scholarship and collection-centred teaching activities undertaken at the Rylands.
As usual in addition to the provision of a general link to the collection, all titles owned in the series are also individually indexed on Library Search.
The collection features on our , and Subject Guides.