Digital Book History

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on fields of digital history: https://inclusivehistorian.com/digital-history/

list of resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit

Galey 2012

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/studyenv/pub00.html

Jon Lamb, "Digital Resources for Early Modern Studies," SEL 2018

Early Print: https://earlyprint.org/

Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig, Paratexts

Liza Blake, http://digitalcavendish.org/original-research/locating-margaret-cavendish/ -- locating Margaret CAvendish; her books are all over because they were cheap

Jim Mussell, The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age

Stephen Pumfrey et al., "Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history," Literary and Linguistic Computing -- pairs with Shore 2019

Kathryn Rudy, "Dirty Books"

Visualizing a library: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/#modus=distribution?level=0?filter=null?auswahl=Q20

Networks

how do material texts intersect with this work?

O'Neill 2015

Jenna Townend, “Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Early Modern Networks: The Case of George Herbert and his Imitators,” Literature Compass (2016)

Michael Gavin, “Historical Text Networks: The Sociology of Early English Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016)

Ruth Ahnert, “Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach,” ELH (2015)

Evan Bourke, “Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle,” Literature Compass (2017)

Galloway 2012 for a critique of social network visualizations

Exploring Big Historical Data -- http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/ -- includes companion website with visualizations

News Networks in Early Modern Europe

Early Modern Digital Studies book out in 2016

Blaine Greteman, Shakosphere: https://shakeosphere.lib.uiowa.edu/index.jsp

Sherman, "The Social Life of a Book"

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/000289/000289.html

SNAC: https://snaccooperative.org/?redirected=1

Big Data

Bode 2012

Priya Joshi, "Quantitative Method, Literary History"

Simon Eliot, "Very Necessary but Not Quite Sufficient"

Historians Macroscope http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/

Robots Reading Vogue: http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/

Cliometrics; see Humphrey Moseley and the section on Gants' paper -- footnote 2 summarizes use of quantitative data to study book trade to that time

Topic Modelling, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.7371&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Natalie Houston: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.3.498#metadata_info_tab_contents

Storytelling

Robert Darnton website: http://www.robertdarnton.org/

Locked chest of 17c letters: http://brienne.org/

Facsimiles

https://twitter.com/SocAntiquaries/status/1183774797844623360 "Charles Stothard was commissioned to draw the Bayeux Tapestry for the Society in 1816. During his 3 visits to Bayeux he also made small plaster casts - by taking wax impressions of the linen - to capture the detail of the embroidery. Of course, this would never be allowed today!"

Lazarus Project: https://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/

Early Manuscripts Electronic Library: http://emel-library.org/

Science

https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/manuscript-road-trip-you-cant-argue-with-science/

  • XRF testing of pigments on a manuscript initial; seems suspicious, not in the style of the period, testing showed they weren't

x-ray scans of scrolls: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/03/ancient-scrolls-charred-by-vesuvius-could-be-read-once-again