A collection of essays considering developing models and new research possibilities in early modern digital studies.
Early modern digital studies is a thriving field that draws in strands from publishing, textual studies, digital humanities, and more. Yet it is also rapidly changing. This volume shows that early modern digital studies must be reconsidered from different perspectives as new projects and tools emerge, change, or disappear, and as we make advances into better understanding the past. The chapters in this volume explore how and what we publish (digitally and otherwise), how we value, evaluate, and sustain those publications and digital projects, and how these projects enable us to ask new research questions about early modern literature and culture. This collection does not seek to be a definitive or final state-of-the-field, but rather, a celebration of existing scholarship and an invitation to further scholarship about our ever-evolving practices.
Early modern digital studies is a thriving field that draws in strands from publishing, textual studies, digital humanities, and more. Yet it is also rapidly changing. This volume shows that early modern digital studies must be reconsidered from different perspectives as new projects and tools emerge, change, or disappear, and as we make advances into better understanding the past. The chapters in this volume explore how and what we publish (digitally and otherwise), how we value, evaluate, and sustain those publications and digital projects, and how these projects enable us to ask new research questions about early modern literature and culture. This collection does not seek to be a definitive or final state-of-the-field, but rather, a celebration of existing scholarship and an invitation to further scholarship about our ever-evolving practices.
400 pages | 34 color plates | 6 x 9 | © 2023
New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Introduction
Laura Estill and Ray Siemens
Discovery, Collaboration, and Publication: Iter’s Present and Thoughts for the Future
William R. Bowen
Drawing Digital Scholarship into the Academic Conversation: The Exigency of Early Modern Digital Review
Randa El Khatib
Considering Place, Publics, and the Present: Creating Digital Spaces for Medieval and Early Modern Scholars
Elizabeth Grumbach
Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript
Ray Siemens, Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Maggie Shirley
and the Devonshire Manuscript Editorial Group
GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons): Developing a Community of Sermon Scholars
Anne James and Jeanne Shami
Towards a Model of the Network Edition
Kyle Dase
Extending the Contribution of Online Digital Projects about the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Case Study of DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts
Luis Meneses
In Search of the Other Voice
Margaret L. King
Digital Humanities’ Shakespeare Problem
Laura Estill
Data That Last: Reflections on Sustainability in Digital Humanities Projects
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen
The Way We Read Now: Criticism in the Age of EEBO
Michael Ullyot
Laura Estill and Ray Siemens
Discovery, Collaboration, and Publication: Iter’s Present and Thoughts for the Future
William R. Bowen
Drawing Digital Scholarship into the Academic Conversation: The Exigency of Early Modern Digital Review
Randa El Khatib
Considering Place, Publics, and the Present: Creating Digital Spaces for Medieval and Early Modern Scholars
Elizabeth Grumbach
Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript
Ray Siemens, Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Maggie Shirley
and the Devonshire Manuscript Editorial Group
GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons): Developing a Community of Sermon Scholars
Anne James and Jeanne Shami
Towards a Model of the Network Edition
Kyle Dase
Extending the Contribution of Online Digital Projects about the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Case Study of DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts
Luis Meneses
In Search of the Other Voice
Margaret L. King
Digital Humanities’ Shakespeare Problem
Laura Estill
Data That Last: Reflections on Sustainability in Digital Humanities Projects
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen
The Way We Read Now: Criticism in the Age of EEBO
Michael Ullyot