A Few Useful Databases for Research in History of Mind

A few more useful databases for research & exploration...


The Mind is a Metaphor: a searchable database of metaphors of mind. Examples that can be quickly set in immediate context, and parsed by period, metaphor type (government, body, liquid, etc...), and other things...

Reading Experiences Database: a collection of descriptions by readers from 1450-1975. (Searchable by title, author, genre, gender, age, date, class, spoken vs. silent, etc...

Gutenberg online copies of our texts: In thinking ahead about papers, don't forget to do a basic word search for key terms you're interested in to start locating passages and give yourself a comprehensive sense of its use. Then, be sure to go back and find the page number for in-text citations.

Robinson Crusoe

If nothing here...

OTHER SOURCES TO CHECK:

Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, or Moral Emblems (English translation)
Iconologia, Open Library
   Samples on Love:
    Force of Love (Fig. 125)
    The Original of Love (Fig. 213)
    Love Reconciled (Fig. 262)
    Conjugal Love (Fig. 62)
    Seraphic Love (Fig. 15)

    Samples on Reason
      Dominion Over Oneself (Fig. 102)
      A Rational Soul (Fig. 17)
      Reason (Fig. 255)
      Science (Fig. 269)
   
   Other Relevant Images
     Curiosity (Fig. 80, pg. 20—doesn't show up when searching curiosity :)
     Melancholy (Fig. 59)
     Avarice, for those interested in Greed (Fig 108).
     Luxury, for those interested in  Economic Consumption (Fig. 199)
     Prosperity (Fig. 252)
         
   
Chambers, Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts & Sciences (1728):
http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/88
OR http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HistSciTech/Cyclopaedia

Johnson's Dictionary (1755): partial versions or google books are searchable online, but can be hard. Either they don't have everything or they're hard to "parse" digitally with the 18th-C "s" looking like an "f."
Johnson's Dictionary (abridged) on Google Books (no quotes from the dictionary, but basic definitions)
Johnson's Dictionary | (Searchable Version Online but very Partial in what was Transcribed)

*For the whole, go to ECCO via MSU libraries, as described in the Metaphors of Mind/ECCO assignment, search for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary from 1755 (there may be more than one volume). Searching here will give you lots—and lots more than you'd like sometimes—but if you need materials, this is the best way to get the whole...