Look what arrived in the post: New Directions in Digital Textual Studies, expertly and diligently edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster. My chapter on "Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Digital Storytelling" is surrounded by the work of a bunch of really terrific scholars. @peterwebster Peter Webster, Mary Erica Zimmer, Leah Henrickson and Dirk Van Hulle, to name just a few.
#publication #humanities #textualscholarship #bookhistory #literaryheritage (...)
J'ose à peine faire de la pub parce que c'est déjà complet, mais il me tarde d'assister à la conférence de Clémence Imbert sur les couvertures de couleur.
Lundi 16 février à 18 h 30 à la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Et ce sera enregistré !
3e volet du cycle « Ce que la couleur fait aux livres »
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/les-couvertures-de-couleur-des-editions-contemporaines-xxe-xxie-siecles
Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging
“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”
James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion
https://howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697
#Scottish #literature #history #RobertBurns #18thcentury #BookHistory #HistoryofScience #HistoryofMathematics
Last weekend saw 25th January roll around, and that meant once again commemorating the life and works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759. This time last year, only a few weeks into my tenure as a how-to-er, I blogged about haggis, that classic Scottish dish consumed at Burns suppers,… Continue reading Robert Burns and the How-to of Barrel Gauging
Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published in 1786: copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #BookHistory
Allan Young and I have just published the first-ever attempt to track down all surviving copies of Burns’s first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: Wilson, 1786), the Kilmarnock Burns. Mr Young started working on this project fifteen years ago, and I have been collaborating with him for the past two years. We […]
From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LzFCI1bNs&feature=youtu.be
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #BookHistory
A magical picture-in-picture fade-in of an #earlymodern hand press and a modern computer setting. #bookhistory
Daniel Bellingradt
Wim Van Mierlo
Nadine Férey
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Daniel Bellingradt