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Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies

Amy E. Earhart 2015 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in defining Digital Humanities as a shared set of interdisciplinary practices and interests.

Traces of the Old, Uses of the New focuses on twenty-five years of developments, including digital editions, digital archives, e-texts, text mining, and visualization, to situate emergent products and processes in relation to historical trends of disciplinary interest in literary study. By reexamining the roil of theoretical debates and applied practices from the last generation of work in juxtaposition with applied digital work of the same period, Earhart also seeks to expose limitations in need of alternative methods—methods that might begin to deliver on the early (but thus far unfulfilled) promise that digitizing texts allows literature scholars to ask and answer questions in new and compelling ways. In mapping the history of digital literary scholarship, Earhart also seeks to chart viable paths to its future, and in doing this work in one discipline, this book aims to inspire similar work in others.

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  • Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism
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  • 978-0-472-05278-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07278-1 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-90068-8 (open access)
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  • Digital Projects
  • Literary Studies:Editorial Theory
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  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Digital Literary Studies in the United States
  • One: The Rationale of Holism: Textual Studies, the Edition, and the Legacy of the Text Entire
  • Two: The Era of the Archive: The New Historicist Movement and Digital Literary Studies
  • Three: What’s In and What’s Out?: Digital Canon Cautions
  • Four: Data and the Fragmented Text: Tools, Visualization, and Datamining or Is Bigger Better?
  • Five: Notes on the Future of Digital Literary Studies
  • Notes
  • Index

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Fig. 1.1. Image from entry page, Studies in Bibliography website, circa 2000. (Bibliographical Society of Virginia, Etext Center, the University of Virginia. http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb.)

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Fig. 1.2. A manuscript image and transcription from the Electronic Beowulf CD-ROM. (From William Kilbride, reviewer. “Whose Beowulf is it anyway? Review of Electronic Beowulf [CD-Rom].” Internet Archaeology 9, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.9.12.)

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Fig. 1.3. Image from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The William Blake Archive. http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=songsie.z.illbk.20=no.

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Fig. 3.1. Chronological listing of bibliography entries: 1830–1835. 19th-Century Bibliography Project. Judith Fetterley and Annie Raskin.

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Fig. 3.2. Native Web screenshot, Authors, Writers Biographies.

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Fig. 3.3. Zitkala Sa page, American Writers curated hyperlinked site.

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Fig. 3.4. Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive, screenshot.

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Fig. 3.5. JSTOR data, canon keyword search. Note that journal publications focused on canon peak in the late 1990s and drop through the current decade.

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Fig. 4.5. Repetition graph, individual points. (Ruecker et al., “Visualizing Repetition in Text.”)

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Fig. 4.6. Repetition graph, contextualized. (Ruecker et al., “Visualizing Repetition in Text.”)

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Fig. 4.7. Visualization of repetition over location (x-axis) and length (y-axis).

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Fig. 4.8. Visualization of Jefferson’s relation arcs. (Klein, 573.)

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