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OverviewAdditional resources for this book are available on our Manifold site, which can be accessed via https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/projects/digitizing-enlightenment 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Burrows , Glenn RoePublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Voltaire Foundation Volume: 2020:07 ISBN: 9781789621945ISBN 10: 1789621941 Pages: 422 Publication Date: 13 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 Encyclopédie 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 Comédie-Française 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 Régime 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 indexReviewsReviews 'It is clear that anyone embarking on a DH [digital humanities] project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.' Helene E. Bilis, H-France Review 'Anyone embarking on a DH project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.'Hélène E. Bilis, Wellesley College Reviews 'It is clear that anyone embarking on a DH [digital humanities] project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.' Hélène E. Bilis, H-France Review 'Anyone embarking on a DH project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.'Helene E. Bilis, Wellesley College Reviews 'It is clear that anyone embarking on a DH [digital humanities] project, be it large- or small-scale, would do well to read this volume carefully before they begin.' Helene E. Bilis, H-France Review Author InformationSimon Burrows is Professor of History and of Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University and lead-investigator of the award-winning French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project. His books include 'Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution', 'Enlightenment Best-Sellers' and (as co-editor) 'Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820'. Glenn Roe is Professor of French Literature and Digital Humanities at Sorbonne University. He has published widely on a variety of subjects, including French literary and intellectual history, the design and use of new computational methodologies for literary-historical research, and the constructive critique of ‘big data’ approaches to cultural collections. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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