Joanna E Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna E Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna E |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8597-0097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1876 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
This introduction to the Digital Forum considers some of the issues facing researchers in the digital space today, including questions of scale raised as much by the creation of small datasets as by the problems and possibilities of Large Language Models. It introduces contributions to the Digital Forum by Mia Ridge, Zoe Alker, Thomas Smits and Roopika Risam, which explore issues around digital preservation in the heritage sector, digital literac…
Isn’t It Byronic Reading Byron in the Social Media Age
This chapter aims to assess what is understood as ‘Byronic’ in the social media age, with data from Twitter as a test case. It demonstrates an approach to low-tech digital humanities to construct multi-scalar readings of, first, responses to Byron from the platform and, second, the poems that emerge as key texts from the dataset. The chapter argues that tweets about Byron continue a long tradition of anthologizing his poetry for popular consumpti…
Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the dif…
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Sublime
This chapter models the use of digital humanities methodologies to study semantic history. Corpus analysis and geographical information systems techniques are applied to trace the use of the word ‘sublime’ in a large collection of digitized literary works from the final decade of the nineteenth century. This collection, which comprises nearly 10,000 texts from the 1890s, was extracted from the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century Books Corpus. Th…
Re-forming the Transnational Victorian Archive
This is an introduction to a special instalment of the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum. The instalment focuses on how re-forming the materials of three very different kinds of nineteenth-century reform work (penal correction, protest literature, and the development of women’s education) into digital databases and archives allows an examination of that work at new scales
Novel Reviews
Michèle Rakotoson, Elle, au printemps (Saint-Maur: Sépia, 1996), 122 pp. Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (UK: Sort of Books, 2019), 240 pp., £7.99. Kathleen Jamie (ed.), Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2020), 232pp., £20
Digital Maps and Mapping in Victorian Studies
This Digital Forum for the Journal of Victorian Culture features contributions from three research projects that are applying digital resources and methods to create maps to organise, visualise and analyse historical sources. The first contribution, ‘Maps of a Nation?’, comes from an interdisciplinary investigative team at the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library. The second contribution comes from the Mapping Victorian Literary Sociabil…
Introduction
When Elizabeth Gaskell’s former house opened as a museum in 2014, its goal was clear: to provide a “hands-on” introduction to the world of Manchester’s Victorian literati (“Elizabeth Gaskell’s Hous
Nuclear ecology along the Coleridge Way
This article explores the ecologies Samuel Taylor Coleridge promoted during the three years he spent at Nether Stowey, Somerset (1797-1800), and considers how they might be applied to the modern nuclear landscape. Today, Coleridge’s cottage marks the start of the Coleridge Way, a 51-mile walk that encourages tourists literally to follow in Coleridge’s footsteps along the north Somerset coastline. The sightline is now dominated by the nuclear powe…
Qualitative Geographies in Digital Texts
Techniques for extracting place names (toponyms) from texts and using them to conduct analyses of the geographies within the texts are becoming reasonably well established. These are generally referred to as Geographical Text Analysis (GTA) and allow us to ask questions about the geographies within a corpus. The limitation of this approach is that the geographies that can be uncovered are solely associated with toponyms for which a coordinate-bas…
Hearing the silence
We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England. Through macro and microreading we develop a taxonomy of aural experiences, and explore how changes to categories of silence from our taxonomy—for instance, the overall decline in mentions of absolute silence—provide clues to changes in the landscape and soundscape of the Lak…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
War, Photography and Evidence
6. Andrew Ross, No Respect. Intellectuals and Popular Culture (London, 1989), p. 60). The vast number of people killed in war is the central moral as well as material fact of this century. They have died in 'Genocidal wars, fire-bombed cities, nuclear explosions, concentration camps, orgies of private bloodletting'.1 But the one-time existence of the millions of man-made dead is difficult to fathom. What is the evidence?
On Some Original Deeds relating to William Earl of Gloucester
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Hearing the silence
We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England. Through macro and microreading we develop a taxonomy of aural experiences, and explore how changes to categories of silence from our taxonomy—for instance, the overall decline in mentions of absolute silence—provide clues to changes in the landscape and soundscape of the Lak…
Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the dif…
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
On Some Original Deeds relating to William Earl of Gloucester
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
War, Photography and Evidence
6. Andrew Ross, No Respect. Intellectuals and Popular Culture (London, 1989), p. 60). The vast number of people killed in war is the central moral as well as material fact of this century. They have died in 'Genocidal wars, fire-bombed cities, nuclear explosions, concentration camps, orgies of private bloodletting'.1 But the one-time existence of the millions of man-made dead is difficult to fathom. What is the evidence?
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Hearing the silence
We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England. Through macro and microreading we develop a taxonomy of aural experiences, and explore how changes to categories of silence from our taxonomy—for instance, the overall decline in mentions of absolute silence—provide clues to changes in the landscape and soundscape of the Lak…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Qualitative Geographies in Digital Texts
Techniques for extracting place names (toponyms) from texts and using them to conduct analyses of the geographies within the texts are becoming reasonably well established. These are generally referred to as Geographical Text Analysis (GTA) and allow us to ask questions about the geographies within a corpus. The limitation of this approach is that the geographies that can be uncovered are solely associated with toponyms for which a coordinate-bas…
Introduction
When Elizabeth Gaskell’s former house opened as a museum in 2014, its goal was clear: to provide a “hands-on” introduction to the world of Manchester’s Victorian literati (“Elizabeth Gaskell’s Hous
Nuclear ecology along the Coleridge Way
This article explores the ecologies Samuel Taylor Coleridge promoted during the three years he spent at Nether Stowey, Somerset (1797-1800), and considers how they might be applied to the modern nuclear landscape. Today, Coleridge’s cottage marks the start of the Coleridge Way, a 51-mile walk that encourages tourists literally to follow in Coleridge’s footsteps along the north Somerset coastline. The sightline is now dominated by the nuclear powe…
Novel Reviews
Michèle Rakotoson, Elle, au printemps (Saint-Maur: Sépia, 1996), 122 pp. Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (UK: Sort of Books, 2019), 240 pp., £7.99. Kathleen Jamie (ed.), Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2020), 232pp., £20
Digital Maps and Mapping in Victorian Studies
This Digital Forum for the Journal of Victorian Culture features contributions from three research projects that are applying digital resources and methods to create maps to organise, visualise and analyse historical sources. The first contribution, ‘Maps of a Nation?’, comes from an interdisciplinary investigative team at the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library. The second contribution comes from the Mapping Victorian Literary Sociabil…
Re-forming the Transnational Victorian Archive
This is an introduction to a special instalment of the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum. The instalment focuses on how re-forming the materials of three very different kinds of nineteenth-century reform work (penal correction, protest literature, and the development of women’s education) into digital databases and archives allows an examination of that work at new scales
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Sublime
This chapter models the use of digital humanities methodologies to study semantic history. Corpus analysis and geographical information systems techniques are applied to trace the use of the word ‘sublime’ in a large collection of digitized literary works from the final decade of the nineteenth century. This collection, which comprises nearly 10,000 texts from the 1890s, was extracted from the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century Books Corpus. Th…
Isn’t It Byronic Reading Byron in the Social Media Age
This chapter aims to assess what is understood as ‘Byronic’ in the social media age, with data from Twitter as a test case. It demonstrates an approach to low-tech digital humanities to construct multi-scalar readings of, first, responses to Byron from the platform and, second, the poems that emerge as key texts from the dataset. The chapter argues that tweets about Byron continue a long tradition of anthologizing his poetry for popular consumpti…
Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the dif…
Introduction
This introduction to the Digital Forum considers some of the issues facing researchers in the digital space today, including questions of scale raised as much by the creation of small datasets as by the problems and possibilities of Large Language Models. It introduces contributions to the Digital Forum by Mia Ridge, Zoe Alker, Thomas Smits and Roopika Risam, which explore issues around digital preservation in the heritage sector, digital literac…
History (11 works) · Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Philippine History and Culture (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works)