Anglistik, Amerikanistik

Die Literatur im Lesesaal ist thematisch nach der Göttinger Online-Klassifikation (GOK) aufgestellt. Die meisten Bücher sind ausleihbar. 

Hauptklassen (die Links führen in den GUK und zeigen die jeweiligen Lesesaal-Bestände): 

IA= Anglistik (inkl. übergreifende Literatur, also gesamter Commonwealth und USA)

IAB = Altenglische Sprache und Literatur

IAD = Mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur

IAF = Irisches Englisch – Sprache und Literatur

IAH= Schottisches Englisch – Sprache und Literatur 

IAJ = Walisisches Englisch – Sprache und Literatur 

IAZ 600 Fic = Preisgekrönte englischsprachige Romane

IAZ 700 Com = Englischsprachige Comics und Graphic Novels 

IB = Commonwealth-Literatur, New English Literatures (Kanada, Australien, Neuseeland, Indien etc.) / Postcolonial Studies 

IBB = Australisches Englisch – Sprache und Literatur

IBJ = Kanadisches Englisch – Sprache und Literatur

IC = Amerikanistik 

IE= Keltische Sprache und Literatur (Irisch, Walisisch etc.)

Es gibt vier Autor*innen-Alphabete:

IA 600 =  Autor*innen der Neuzeit aus Großbritannien, Irland, Kanada sowie allen weiteren englischsprachigen Ländern außer USA (s.u.) (von Kingsley Amis bis W. B. Yeats) 

IAB 600 = Altenglische Autoren und Denkmäler (von Aelfric bis Beowulf)

IAD 600 = Mittelenglische Autoren und Denkmäler (von Geoffrey Chaucer bis Thomas Malory) 

IC 600 = Amerikanische Autor*innen (von Edward Albee bis Richard Wright) 

Die Neuerwerbungen der letzten drei Monate in den Fächern Anglistik und Amerikanistik können Sie sich über diesen Link im GUK anzeigen lassen. 

Seit 2016 betreut die SUB Göttingen gemeinsam mit der Fachbibliothek Nordamerikastudien der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin den DFG-geförderten Fachinformationsdienst Anglo-American Culture (FID AAC), der sich v. a. an die folgenden Fächer richtet:

• Anglistik / Großbritannien- und Irlandstudien
• Anglophone postkoloniale Studien
• Amerikastudien
• Kanadastudien
• Australien- und Neuseelandstudien

Der FID erwirbt Forschungsliteratur und Primärquellen und stellt Publikationen im Open Access auf dem Fachrepositorium The Stacks bereit. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des FIDs (Library of Anglo-American Culture & History) sowie in der Projektübersicht auf der SUB-Webseite. 

 

 

Ausführliche Suchtipps für die Sammlungen zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik finden Sie auf der Webseite Seite des FID Anglo-American Culture (Library of Anglo-American Culture & History).  

Eine Liste der in Göttingen vorhandenen englischen Drucke und Handschriften finden Sie auf der Webseite des FID AAC (Library of Anglo-American Culture & History). 

Göttingen State and University Library houses one of the largest and most wide-ranging American Studies collections in Europe, encompassing historical and contemporary primary sources as well as scholarly publications on American history, culture, literature, folklore, politics and geography. The collection features books, journals, maps, microforms and photographic prints as well as digitized copies of historical documents.

Starting with its foundation in 1734, Göttingen University Library has been collecting books and other materials from and relating to the British colonies on the North American continent since the University’s founder, Georg August, Duke of Hanover, also ruled Great Britain in personal union (as King George II). 

Among the most important historical sources of the collection are two editions of the famous Columbus letter describing his first voyage and a copy of the first American census of 1790 bearing the handwritten name of Thomas Jefferson. 

Parts of the collection of 18^th and 19^th century Americana, among them a variety of travel reports in both German and English, have been digitized. You can browse this collection on the website of the Göttingen Digitisation Centre (Americana, Itineraria, VD17 and VD18). 

Apart from entertaining business relations to book-sellers abroad, the library also benefitted from the generosity of some of its famous patrons: Shortly before his death, the financier John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, who studied at Göttingen University in 1856/57, donated money to the library for the purchase of English and American books. He also presented the library with a copy of the expensive twenty-volume edition of Edward Sheriff Curtis's The North American Indian (including photogravure plates), a massive documentary project that he had helped finance.

The library’s historical collection has been continually supplemented by items bought at national and international auctions, among them first and rare editions of major 19^th century literary works such as Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass(1855) and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. 

After World War II, SUB Göttingen was tasked by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to collect primary sources and scholarly literature pertaining to the United States of America as part of its Special Subject Collections Programme. This resulted in a substantial collection of contemporary German and international research literature comprised of both books and journals. The collection of primary literature contains editions of historical sources (both in print and on microform) as well as editions of literary texts representative of a large variety of genres: Volumes of contemporary poetry published in limited editions, literature of the fantastic (science fiction, horror, fantasy), crime fiction, anthologies of short stories, regional and non-fiction writing as well as literary magazines.

Tips for exploring American Studies in the Göttingen collections

Since its foundation in 1734, Göttingen State and University Library has been collecting books and other materials from and relating to Britain and its colonies, as Georg August, Duke of Hanover, the founder of Göttingen University, also ruled Great Britain in personal union as King George II. As one of the principal research libraries of the Enlightenment, Göttingen Library acquired a large variety of travel writings and accounts of voyages of discovery in a period which coincided with the colonization of Australia by the British. Over the years, the library was able to further extend its important and wide-ranging collection of Australiana which encompasses historical and contemporary primary sources as well as scholarly publications on Australian and New Zealand history, culture, literature, folklore, politics, natural history and geography. The collection features books, journals, maps and mircroforms as well as digitized copies of historical documents.

Among the earliest documents of the collection are accounts of James Cook's expeditions, such as the 1777 and 1779 editions of A Voyage towards the South Pole and round the World and detailed descriptions by the 18th century German scholar Georg Forster who had accompanied Cook on his second voyage. In addition, Göttingen University owns a substantial ethnographic collection of cultural artifacts obtained on the Cook/Forster voyages. 18th- and 19th-century works on the flora of Australia and New Zealand are also part of the library's collection. 

After World War II, SUB Göttingen was tasked by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to collect primary sources and scholarly literature pertaining to Australia and New Zealand as part of its Special Subject Collections Programme. This resulted in a substantial collection of contemporary German and international research literature comprised of both books and journals. The collection of primary literature contains editions of historical sources (both in print and on microform) as well as editions of literary texts representative of a large variety of genres: Volumes of contemporary poetry, novels, anthologies of short stories, regional and non-fiction writing as well as literary magazines such as Overland.

Since its foundation in 1734, Göttingen State and University Library has been collecting books and other materials from and relating to Britain and its colonies, as Georg August, Duke of Hanover, the founder of Göttingen University, also ruled Great Britain in personal union as King George II. As one of the principal research libraries of the Enlightenment, Göttingen Library acquired a large variety of accounts of voyages of discovery and travel writings in a period of time which coincided with the French and British colonization of Canada. Among the earliest Canadiana are a first edition of Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan's famous travelogue Nouveaux Voyages De Mr. Le Baron De Lahontan, Dans L'Amerique Septentrionale (1703) as well as German and English translations.

Over the years, the library was able to further extend its collection of Canadiana which encompasses historical and contemporary primary sources as well as scholarly publications on Canadian history, culture, literature, folklore, politics, natural history and geography. The collection features books, journals, maps and mircroforms as well as digitized copies of historical documents.

After World War II, SUB Göttingen was tasked by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to collect primary sources and scholarly literature pertaining to North America (Canada and the United States) as part of its Special Subject Collections Programme. This resulted in a substantial collection of contemporary German and international research literature comprised of both books and journals. The collection of primary literature contains editions of historical sources (both in print and on microform) as well as editions of anglophone literary texts representative of a large variety of genres: Volumes of poetry, novels, anthologies of short stories, regional and non-fiction writing as well as literary magazines.

Since its foundation in 1734, Göttingen State and University Library has been collecting books and other materials from and relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Georg August, Duke of Hanover, the founder of Göttingen University, also ruled Great Britain in personal union as King George II. This close connection between the two countries has laid the foundation of one of the largest collections of English books on the continent, as the library established business relationships with booksellers in London and other cities abroad. One of the principal research libraries of the Enlightenment, Göttingen Library acquired a large variety of documents relating to the expansion of the British empire as well as literary texts of the 17th and 18th century. Over the years, the library was able to further extend its important and wide-ranging collection which encompasses historical and contemporary primary sources as well as scholarly publications on English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish history, culture, literature, folklore, politics and geography. The collection features books, journals, maps and mircroforms as well as digitized copies of historical documents.

Among its collection of English manuscripts and incunables are several copies of works by the printer William Caxton (such as the Dicta Philosophorum) who brought the printing press to England.The library’s historical collection has been continually supplemented by items bought at national and international auctions, among them first and rare editions, such as an edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896), published by William Morris's Kelmscott Press and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, a signed edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922).

After World War II, SUB Göttingen was tasked by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to collect primary sources and scholarly literature pertaining to Great Britain and Ireland as part of its Special Subject Collections Programme. This resulted in a substantial collection of contemporary German and international research literature comprised of both books and journals. The collection of primary literature contains editions of historical sources (both in print and on microform) as well as editions of literary texts representative of a large variety of genres: Volumes of contemporary poetry, contemporary novels, crime fiction, anthologies of short stories, regional and non-fiction writing as well as literary magazines.