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

Edited by simon burrows and glenn roe

Table of Contents

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 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 year of 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