About This Site
Today, many literature and history scholars have taken an interest in the seventeenth-century crime pamphlets written by minister Henry Goodcole (1586-1641). From Francis Dolan's discussion on representations of domestic crime in England to James Sharpe's study of crime in the early modern period, scholars are utilizing Goodcole's pamphlets as valuable literary examples to better understand depictions of crime and criminals in seventeenth-century British culture. However, these pamphlets remain unpublished with the only extant copies held in prestigious institutions or available via academic databases such as Early English Books Online.
The Henry Goodcole Pamphlets Project began as a class assignment for Forensic Bibliography and Archival Editing with Dr. Katherine Ellison at Illinois State University. The project aims to make Goodcole's documents more easily accessible to scholars, students, and British history enthusiasts by producing carefully edited digital versions of the works that include a critical introduction, notes, an original title page, and a TEI mark up.
The Henry Goodcole Pamphlets Project began as a class assignment for Forensic Bibliography and Archival Editing with Dr. Katherine Ellison at Illinois State University. The project aims to make Goodcole's documents more easily accessible to scholars, students, and British history enthusiasts by producing carefully edited digital versions of the works that include a critical introduction, notes, an original title page, and a TEI mark up.
About the Editor
Cayla Eagon is a graduate student in Literary and Cultural Studies at Illinois State University where she also teaches freshman composition and serves as the editorial assistant to the online journal Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries. Her primary research interests are focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, specifically related to women's and gender issues. She is also interested in the Gothic, crime/detective fiction, body studies, and literary representations of female suicide. In addition to developing The Henry Goodcole Pamphlets Project, she is currently working on a study that explores connections between life-writing and female suicide in the novels of Wilkie Collins.
Last Modified February 18, 2014.
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