Reading and Resources

Possible Internships, Fellowships, etc.

Models for Social Engagement

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:

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A rare creature: a scholarly work that has yet to be superseded.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

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