Digitizing Enlightenment : digital humanities and the transformation of eighteenth-century studies /

Digitizing Enlightenment : digital humanities and the transformation of eighteenth-century studies /

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Imprint:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2020]
©2020
Description:xvii, 453 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, ‡x 0435-2866 ; 2020:07.
Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2020:07.
Subject:
Enlightenment -- France.
Digital humanities.
Digital humanities.
Enlightenment.
France.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12478992
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Varying Form of Title:Digital humanities and the transformation of eighteenth-century studies
Other authors / contributors:Burrows, Simon, 1966- editor.
Roe, Glenn H., editor.
Baker, Keith Michael, writer of preface.
ISBN:1789621941
9781789621945
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-406) and indexes.
Summary:Digitizing Enlightenment explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured projects are some of the best known, well-funded and longest established research initiatives in the emerging area of 'digital humanities', a field that has, particularly since 2010, been attracting a rising tide of interest from professional academics, the media, funding councils, and the general public worldwide. Advocates and practitioners of the digital humanities argue that computational methods can fundamentally transform our ability to answer some of the 'big questions' that drive humanities research, allowing us to see patterns and relationships that were hitherto hard to discern, and to pinpoint, visualise, and analyse relevant data in efficient and powerful new ways. In the book's opening section, leading scholars outline their own projects' institutional and intellectual histories, the techniques and methodologies they specifically developed, the sometimes-painful lessons learned in the process, future trajectories for their research, and how their findings are revising previous understandings. A second section features chapters from early career scholars working at the intersection of digital methods and Enlightenment studies, an intellectual space largely forged by the projects featured in part one. Highlighting current and future research methods and directions for digital eighteenth-century studies, the book offers a monument to the current state of digital work, an overview of current findings, and a vision statement for future research. -- Publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Digitizing Enlightenment / Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe
  • The ARTFL Encyclopédie and the aesthetics of abundance / Robert Morrissey and Glenn Roe
  • Electronic Enlightenment: recreating the Republic of Letters / Nicholas Cronk
  • Mapping the Republic of Letters: history of a digital humanities project / Dan Edelstein
  • Cultures of Knowledge in transition: Early Modern Letters Online as an experiment in collaboration, 2009-2018 / Howard Hotson
  • The Comédie-Française Registers Project: questions of audience / Jeffrey S. Ravel
  • Towards a new bibliography of eighteenth-century French fiction / Angus Martin and the late Richard Frautschi
  • The FBTEE revolution: mapping the Ancien Régime book trade and the future of historical bibliometric research / Simon Burrows
  • Shifting perspectives and moving targets: from conceptual vistas to bits of data in the first year of the MEDIATE project / Alicia C. Montoya
  • Seeking the eye of history: the design of digital tools for Enlightenment studies / Catherine Nicole Coleman
  • Topic modelling the French pre-Revolutionary press / Elizabeth Andrews Bond and Robert M. Bond
  • Putting the eighteenth century on the map: French geospatial data for digital humanities research / Katherine McDonough
  • The illegal book trade revisited: an insight into database protocols and pitfalls / Laure Philip
  • The empire of letters: Enlightenment-era French salons / Melanie Conroy and Chloe Summers Edmondson
  • Opening new paths for scholarship: algorithms to track text reuse in Eighteenth Century CoIIections Online / Clovis Gladstone and Charles Cooney
  • Conclusion: beyond digitizing Enlightenment / Sean Takats.

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