Rachael Scarborough King
Biographic Data
| ID | 1007375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachael Scarborough King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachael Scarborough |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9373-6073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Before and After
This article reveals the interconnection of estate improvements with book history in the evolution of the key eighteenth-century concept of improvement. In the late eighteenth century, landscape gardener Humphry Repton invented the form of the before-and-after illustration, using hinged overlays to show proposed changes to the landscape. He presented his clients with what came to be known as his "Red Books," manuscript volumes not only outlining …
Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books
In this essay, the authors use an archival collection housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Library Special Research Collections to examine how the concept of “the book” changes in light of historical archival practices and present-day techniques of digitization and computational literary analysis. The Ballitore Collection consists of roughly 2,500 letters, journals, and notes related to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iri…
The Role of the Graduate Student in Inclusive Undergraduate Research Experiences
The authors present a lab-based research model that engages graduate students in undergraduate research mentorship positions that are mutually beneficial for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty. They show how this model can be scaled up and adapted across the range of English disciplines. The authors share examples of the different types of research that they have engaged in for linguistics, literary archival studies, creative writing,…
Sir Madam’
This article examines the manuscript newsletters received by two women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Anne Pole and Susannah Newey. Although women have often been excluded from discussion of manuscript news circulation, these women's newsletters, especially the parliamentary news they contained, reveal important information about the turn of the 18th‐century news industry. Both women received and shared parliamentary news provided by …
The Scale of Genre
This article argues for the privileged position of genre at the middle scale in literary analysis, showing how genre categories locate texts within literary-historical contexts and thus reveal the processes of literary change. Examining two major recent methodological developments in literary studies—the new formalism and the digital humanities—it calls for disentangling the terms "form" and "genre" to recognize the different scales on which they…
Charlotte Lennox
Old New Media
Book Review| September 01 2015 Old New Media: Print, Paint, and the Early Eighteenth-Century Media Revolution Wahrman, Dror. Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age. (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2012). Pp. 275. 75 color ills.$34.95 Rachael Scarborough King Rachael Scarborough King Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113. https…
The Scale of Genre
This article argues for the privileged position of genre at the middle scale in literary analysis, showing how genre categories locate texts within literary-historical contexts and thus reveal the processes of literary change. Examining two major recent methodological developments in literary studies—the new formalism and the digital humanities—it calls for disentangling the terms "form" and "genre" to recognize the different scales on which they…
Old New Media
Book Review| September 01 2015 Old New Media: Print, Paint, and the Early Eighteenth-Century Media Revolution Wahrman, Dror. Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age. (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2012). Pp. 275. 75 color ills.$34.95 Rachael Scarborough King Rachael Scarborough King Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113. https…
Charlotte Lennox
The Scale of Genre
This article argues for the privileged position of genre at the middle scale in literary analysis, showing how genre categories locate texts within literary-historical contexts and thus reveal the processes of literary change. Examining two major recent methodological developments in literary studies—the new formalism and the digital humanities—it calls for disentangling the terms "form" and "genre" to recognize the different scales on which they…
The Role of the Graduate Student in Inclusive Undergraduate Research Experiences
The authors present a lab-based research model that engages graduate students in undergraduate research mentorship positions that are mutually beneficial for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty. They show how this model can be scaled up and adapted across the range of English disciplines. The authors share examples of the different types of research that they have engaged in for linguistics, literary archival studies, creative writing,…
Sir Madam’
This article examines the manuscript newsletters received by two women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Anne Pole and Susannah Newey. Although women have often been excluded from discussion of manuscript news circulation, these women's newsletters, especially the parliamentary news they contained, reveal important information about the turn of the 18th‐century news industry. Both women received and shared parliamentary news provided by …
Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books
In this essay, the authors use an archival collection housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Library Special Research Collections to examine how the concept of “the book” changes in light of historical archival practices and present-day techniques of digitization and computational literary analysis. The Ballitore Collection consists of roughly 2,500 letters, journals, and notes related to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Iri…
Before and After
This article reveals the interconnection of estate improvements with book history in the evolution of the key eighteenth-century concept of improvement. In the late eighteenth century, landscape gardener Humphry Repton invented the form of the before-and-after illustration, using hinged overlays to show proposed changes to the landscape. He presented his clients with what came to be known as his "Red Books," manuscript volumes not only outlining …
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