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Welcome to the Off the Road Database! This database collects American road literature from the early decades of automobility. It is part of the ERC-funded research project "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility."

Our focus is on poems, fiction, and non-fiction narratives from the 1890s through the 1920s, but we are open to all texts that are within the public domain under European copyright law. You can browse the database by texts and by authors.

The text search works like a library catalog: you can search for titles, authors, etc. With the advanced search you can search the full texts and the annotation keywords we added to identify various aspects of automobility (technologies, environments, the experience of driving, etc.) and aesthetic strategies of representing these aspects. The advanced search will direct you to specific stanzas in poems or paragraphs in prose texts.

Contact us if you would like to add texts or annotations!

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-Welcome to the [https://offtheroad.org/ Off the Road] Database! This database collects American road literature from the early decades of automobility. It is part of the ERC-funded research project "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility." Our focus is on poems, fiction, and non-fiction narratives from the 1890s through the 1920s, but we are open to all texts that are within the public domain under European copyright law.
+Welcome to the Off the Road Database! This database collects American road literature from the early decades of automobility. It is part of the ERC-funded research project [https://offtheroad.org/ "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility."]
-Here is how it works.
+Our focus is on poems, fiction, and non-fiction narratives from the 1890s through the 1920s, but we are open to all texts that are within the public domain under European copyright law. You can browse the database [https://wiki.uni-konstanz.de/offroad/index.php/Category:Texts by texts] and [https://wiki.uni-konstanz.de/offroad/index.php/Category:Authors by authors].
-We have compiled and annotated a range of texts for you to peruse and search. At the bottom of the page you are currently on, you will see an overview of all texts currently available. This is our text search, and it is best used to filter the text corpus broadly according to the search parameters on the left-hand side. The search results are organized alphabetically. You can arrange them in a different order by clicking on “order by” in the top right corner and selecting the parameter of your choice such as year of publication or genre. By clicking on any search result, you will be directed to the respective text page.
+The [https://wiki.uni-konstanz.de/offroad/index.php/Text_Search text search] works like a library catalog: you can search for titles, authors, etc. With the [https://wiki.uni-konstanz.de/offroad/index.php/Advanced_Search advanced search] you can search the full texts and the annotation keywords we added to identify various aspects of automobility (technologies, environments, the experience of driving, etc.) and aesthetic strategies of representing these aspects. The advanced search will direct you to specific stanzas in poems or paragraphs in prose texts.
-If you are looking for a comprehensive overview of all texts, you can find them by clicking on “Browse wiki by texts” on the very left. The same goes for a comprehensive overview of all authors. Simply click on “Browse wiki by authors.”
+[mailto:contact@offtheroad.org Contact us] if you would like to add texts or annotations!
-The heart of the database is the advanced search. The advanced search allows you to find text passages which we have annotated for stylistic and thematic elements. If you are unsure about what to search for, you can simply take a look at the info graphic below. The graphic shows you all the keywords which we have used and you can look for. You can even search for combinations of key words. Note, however, that the advanced search looks for individual paragraphs and stanzas. All the results you will see, then, are individual paragraphs or stanzas from a text. If you click on any search result, you will be directed to the exact paragraph or stanza in the text. If you start with any keyword in the search bar, this means that the search field will offer an overview of keywords which we tagged in combination with the first keyword in a specific paragraph or stanza. The same goes for the other search parameters. Once you have selected a journal or author, for example, the other search fields will only show you what has been used together with this journal or author. The advanced search works best if you provide lots of input, so you can find exactly what you are looking for.
-== Text Search ==
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