Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12880973
AutoresPaddy Bullard (0000-0001-7193-0844, University of Kent, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen10
Número10
Páginas748-760
Fecha de publicación2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLiterature Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lic3.12085
OpenAlexW2101522430
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

The field of eighteenth‐century studies at its broadest extent – taking in the English Restoration, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period – has changed significantly since the beginning of the twenty‐first century due to the impact of electronic resources on research methods and on the accessibility of primary research materials. Theorists of the digital humanities writing at the end of the previous century argued that the computerization of humanities research would make the editing and archiving of historical texts more subtle and fluid. This article argues that humanities computing has in fact moved away from editing and textual criticism toward the development of larger and more interoperable databases. Current digital humanities in the long eighteenth century are defined by the Enlightenment virtues of pragmatism and communicability, but they have yet to attain the Enlightenment ideals of openness and refinement

Art · Criticism · Digital humanities · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Humanities · Literature · Openness to experience · Pragmatism · Romance · Romanticism · Sociology · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Philosophy · Psychology