Reading and Resources

Code Geeks - Archive Nerds - Possible Publishers - Fandom and Readers - 18/19C 

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Possible Internships, Fellowships, etc.

• A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama Undergraduate Workshop, June 26 – 30, 2017

Models for Social Engagement

• Lady's Magazine Project

• Early Novels Blog

• Podcasts

  • Hidden Histories 

  • The Memory Palace

Coding Info for Aspiring Programmers and the Nervous Coders:

• TEI/XML Standards

  • TEI-5 

  • TEI Manuscript Rules 

  • Jane Austen Manuscript Rules (Overview of Technical Notes) (ODD = "One Document Does It All" File)

  • TEI5 ENRICH Manuscript description (not currently used by this project)

  • Sample TEI files: NEU (includes a variety of samples)

  • Walk-through of TEI header info from Oxford in plain English with examples

• TEI Boilerplate  (to transform directly to HTML)

• Text Creation Partnership  (TEI-Encoded 18C Printed Text)

• Metadata-Relevant Links

  • Library of Congress Form/Genre Term List (PDF) and Documentation/Introduction 
    note: these terms are what an item IS, not what it is ABOUT. In other words, Harry Potter IS Children's Literature (among many other things), but a book ABOUT Harry Potter Fandom IS Nonfiction.

• What you can do with XML:

  • UCLA DH101

  • Jockers, Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature 

  • RBS L-100: Digital Approaches to Bibliography Reading List

  • Grad Student Project: The Hannah More Project

For Archivally-Oriented Folks:

• Historical Thesaurus of English (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Glasgow)

• Dictionary of the Scots Language

• Dictionary of Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (ebook from AU Libraries)

• TOME - Toolkit of Material Evidence - in-process ebook on physical features of books.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Your first stop to find a biography of anyone connected to Great Britain.

• National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (USA)

• GLAM - Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts 

• CELM - Catalogue of Early English Manuscripts 1450-1700

• Oxford's Bodelian Manuscripts

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For those interested in the history of fan culture and of reading:

• The Interactive Fiction Archive

• Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (1958, 2nd edition 1998) (PDF here, also in print in RBD)
  A rare creature: a scholarly work that has yet to be superseded.  Highly recommended to dip into.

• Jack, The Woman Reader
  Exactly what it says on the tin: a big wide history of women writing and reading.

• Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
  --. Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
  --. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
  --. Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture
  Jenkins literally founded the field of "participatory culture" and "transformative works" (which includes but is not limited to fanfic, etc.)

• Price, Reading: The State of the Discipline. A great brief overview of the thorny issues of deciding what reading studies IS.

Eighteenth-Century Nerds:

• Eighteenth-Century Common

• Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (access through library homepage if off-campus)

• 18thConnect

• British Fiction 1800-1829

• Brewer, The Afterlife of Character

• Flint, The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835: a dangerous recreation.

• Franklin, Clery, Garside, Eds. Authorship, commerce, and the public: scenes of writing, 1750-1850.

• Bigold, Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the eighteenth century : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter.

• George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker, Eds. Women's writing and the circulation of ideas : manuscript publication in England, 1550-1800.

• Schellenberg, The professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain.

• --. Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture 

Romanticism

• De Ritter, Imagining women readers, 1789-1820 : well-regulated minds.

• McCarthy, Relationships of sympathy : the writer and the reader in British romanticism

• Schmid, British literary salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

• St Clair, Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

19th Century

• "Novel text analysis uses PageRank to identify influential Victorian authors" Wired UK

• Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell, Eds. Encounters in the Victorian press: editors, authors, readers.

• Robyn Warhol, Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel

More Nerdery

• Ampersand Poem in Punch 1867