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

Author(s)

• Burrows, Simon
• Roe, Glenn H.
• Baker, Keith Michael

Bibliographic Information

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

edited by Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe ; preface by Keith Michael Baker

（Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:07）

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2020

Note

Bibliography: p. 385-406

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Featuring contributions from Keith Michael Baker, Elizabeth Andrews Bond, Robert M. Bond, Simon Burrows, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Melanie Conroy, Charles Cooney, Nicholas Cronk, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Summers Edmondson, the late Richard Frautschi, Clovis Gladstone, Howard Hotson, Angus Martin, Katherine McDonough, Alicia C. Montoya, Robert Morrissey, Laure Philip, Jeffrey S. Ravel, Glenn Roe, and Sean Takats.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables Keith Michael Baker Preface Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe Introduction: Digitizing Enlightenment I. Digital projects, past and present Robert Morrissey and Glenn Roe The ARTFL Encyclopedie and the aesthetics of abundance Nicholas Cronk Electronic Enlightenment: recreating the Republic of Letters Dan Edelstein Mapping the Republic of Letters: history of a digital humanities project Howard Hotson Cultures of Knowledge in transition: Early Modern Letters Online as an experiment in collaboration, 2009-2018 Jeffrey S. Ravel The Comedie-Francaise Registers Project: questions of audience Angus Martin and the late Richard Frautschi Towards a new bibliography of eighteenth-century French fiction Simon Burrows The FBTEE revolution: mapping the Ancien Regime book trade and the future of historical bibliometric research Alicia C. Montoya Shifting perspectives and moving targets: from conceptual vistas to bits of data in the first yearof the MEDIATE project II. Digital methods and innovations Catherine Nicole Coleman Seeking the eye of history: the design of digital tools for Enlightenment studies Elizabeth Andrews Bond and Robert M. Bond Topic modelling the French pre-Revolutionary press Katherine McDonough Putting the eighteenth century on the map: French geospatial data for digital humanities research Laure Philip The illegal book trade revisited: an insight into database protocols and pitfalls Melanie Conroy and Chloe Summers Edmondson The empire of letters: Enlightenment-era French salons Clovis Gladstone and Charles Cooney Opening new paths for scholarship: algorithms to track text reuse in Eighteenth Century Collections Online Sean Takats Conclusion: beyond digitizing Enlightenment Bibliography Index of persons Index of titles General index

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Details

• NCID: BC0176940X
• ISBN:
  • 9781789621945
• LCCN: 2019452953
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 453 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 001.30285
  • LCC : AZ105
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Digital humanities
  • LCSH : Enlightenment
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB14748970