Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Digital Enlightenment: Representing Big Data
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Front Matter
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Data Visualization and the Eighteenth-Century Corpus: Case Studies
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Back Matter
Reviews
“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) “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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ileana Baird is Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University, UAE. She is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Social Networks: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries (2014), and the co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (2014), and All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Editors: Ileana Baird
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54913-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54912-1Published: 24 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54915-2Published: 24 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54913-8Published: 23 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 385
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Digital Humanities, Literature, general