Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture
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Beschreibung
Placed at the intersection of the digital humanities and Enlightenment studies, this collection is an interdisciplinary effort that showcases the significant digital work done in the field of eighteenth-century studies and its potential to transform our disciplinary practices. By addressing essential period-related themes—from issues of canonicity, intellectual history, and book trade practices to novel ways of exploring canonical authors and texts, gender roles, and public sphere dynamics—this collection also makes a broader argument about the necessity of expanding the very notion of “Enlightenment” not only spatially but also conceptually, by revisiting its very tenets in light of new data. The essays included here demonstrate that, by translating these new findings in suggestive visualizations, we can unveil unforeseen patterns, trends, connections, or networks of influence that could potentially revise existing master narratives about the period and the ideological structures at the core of the Enlightenment.
Chapters 1, 3, 8 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture explores the new interpretive possibilities offered by using data visualization in eighteenth-century studies. Such visualizations include tabulations, charts, k-means clustering, topic modeling, network graphs, data mapping, and/or other illustrations of patterns of social or intellectual exchange. The contributions to this collection present groundbreaking research of texts and/or cultural trends emerging from data mined from existing databases and other aggregates of sources. Describing both small and large digital projects by scholars in visual arts, history, musicology, and literary studies, this collection addresses the benefits and challenges of employing digital tools, as well as their potential use in the classroom.
Chapters 1, 3, 8 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Provides examples of large and small digital projects that use data visualization, beyond analyses of epistolary or social networks Highlights the benefits of using data visualization as a methodological and pedagogical tool Includes analyses of particular eighteenth-century texts with computational methods Includes digital projects undertaken by eighteenth-century scholars from various disciplines (visual arts, history, musicology, and literary studies)
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Ileana Baird
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“Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture is a fine volume that captures many of the modes of DH research underway in the eighteenth century. The volume benefits from copious images in both black and white and color to illustrate the visualizations described in the essays.” (Mark Vareschi, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 56 (4), 2023)
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“This interdisciplinary collection is a necessary addition to the fields both of eighteenth-century studies and digital humanities because it addresses the transformative ways of seeing that speak both to Enlightenment goals and contemporary data analysis, connecting the past to the present and future. Admirable in its breadth, Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture takes both a system-level perspective and a more granular approach to the history of data and knowledge, making it useful in the classroom as well." (Tonya-Marie Howe, Professor of Literature, Marymount University, USA)
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