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  • Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

    Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive


What old and new crafts shape the nineteenth-century digital archive? How is the nineteenth-century paper archive remediated and remixed in the twenty-first century digital archive? What kinds of authors, users, and citizens do nineteenth-century digital projects call for? And what shape do they take? These are some of the questions addressed in this tenth anniversary issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century dedicated to the Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive. In ‘The Craft of the Archive’, Morris Eaves and the Blake Archive team address the digital palimpsesting of William Blake’s Four Zoas, whereas Jason Camlot discusses digital forensics, audio fossils, and analyses early voice archives. The Our Mutual Friend Reading Project, Birkbeck’s durational interval reading experiment, is discussed by Ben Winyard, Emma Curry, and some of the project’s digital personae: Beatrice Bazell, Holly Furneaux, Pete Orford, and Melissa Symanczyk. The ‘Experiments’ section features Nadia Valman’s Zangwill’s Spitalfields app, Bob Nicholson’s Victorian Meme Machine, and Rob Gallagher and Ana Parejo Vadillo’s remix of Michael Field’s Sight and Song. Finally, in ‘Visions’ we explore the Internet Archive with Brewster Kahle; Gale Digital Collections with Ray Abruzzi; the Central Online Victorian Educator with Dino Franco Felluga; Citizen Science with Sally Shuttleworth, Gowan Dawson, and team; Lost Visions with Julia Thomas; nineteenth-century periodicals with Laurel Brake and James Mussell; and conclude with Hilary Fraser and Jerome McGann reflecting on digital nineteenth-century worlds past, present, and future.

Forewords: Ten Years of 19


From the Editors

From the Editors

Carolyn Burdett and Hilary Fraser

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Becoming Invisible: The Intern's View

Becoming Invisible: The Intern's View

David Gillott

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Introduction


In the Cloud: Nineteenth-Century Visions and Experiments for the Digital Age

In the Cloud: Nineteenth-Century Visions and Experiments for the Digital Age

Luisa Calè and Ana Parejo Vadillo

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The Craft of the Archive


Prototyping an Electronic Edition of William Blake’s Manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas: A Progress Report

Prototyping an Electronic Edition of William Blake’s Manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas: A Progress Report

Morris Eaves, Eric Loy, Hardeep Sidhu and Laura Whitebell

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts

Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts

Jason Camlot

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The Our Mutual Friend Reading Project


‘May We Meet Again’: Rereading the Dickensian Serial in the Digital Age

‘May We Meet Again’: Rereading the Dickensian Serial in the Digital Age

Ben Winyard

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Doing the Novel in Different Voices: Reflections on a Dickensian Twitter Experiment

Doing the Novel in Different Voices: Reflections on a Dickensian Twitter Experiment

Emma Curry

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Reflections of a Sawdust-Filled, Six-Foot, Tweeting, Taxidermy Alligator

Reflections of a Sawdust-Filled, Six-Foot, Tweeting, Taxidermy Alligator

Melissa Symanczyk

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Being John Rokesmith

Being John Rokesmith

Pete Orford

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Being Bella: Adventures in the Dickensian ‘Twittersphere’

Being Bella: Adventures in the Dickensian ‘Twittersphere’

Beatrice Bazell

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Mortimer Lightwood; or, Seriality, Counterfactuals, Co-Production, and Queer Fantasy

Mortimer Lightwood; or, Seriality, Counterfactuals, Co-Production, and Queer Fantasy

Holly Furneaux

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Experiment


Walking Victorian Spitalfields with Israel Zangwill

Walking Victorian Spitalfields with Israel Zangwill

Nadia Valman

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

The Victorian Meme Machine: Remixing the Nineteenth-Century Archive

The Victorian Meme Machine: Remixing the Nineteenth-Century Archive

Bob Nicholson

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Animating Sight and Song: A Meditation on Identity, Fair Use, and Collaboration

Animating Sight and Song: A Meditation on Identity, Fair Use, and Collaboration

Rob Gallagher and Ana Parejo Vadillo

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Vision


The Internet Archive: An Interview with Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive: An Interview with Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle and Ana Parejo Vadillo

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Gale Digital Collections: Ray Abruzzi Interviewed by Luisa Calè and Ana Parejo Vadillo

Gale Digital Collections: Ray Abruzzi Interviewed by Luisa Calè and Ana Parejo Vadillo

Ray Abruzzi, Luisa Calè and Ana Parejo Vadillo

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Citizen Science: Sally Shuttleworth and her Team Interviewed by Carolyn Burdett

Citizen Science: Sally Shuttleworth and her Team Interviewed by Carolyn Burdett

Geoffrey Belknap, Carolyn Burdett, Gowan Dawson, Alison Moulds and Sally Shuttleworth

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

The Eventuality of the Digital

The Eventuality of the Digital

Dino Franco Felluga

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Lost Visions: An Interview with Julia Thomas

Lost Visions: An Interview with Julia Thomas

Luisa Calè, Michael Goodman, Julia Thomas, Ana Parejo Vadillo and Alexis Wolf

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Nineteenth-Century Digital Worlds: Hilary Fraser Interviews Jerome McGann

Nineteenth-Century Digital Worlds: Hilary Fraser Interviews Jerome McGann

Hilary Fraser and Jerome McGann

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive

Digital Nineteenth-Century Serials for the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation

Digital Nineteenth-Century Serials for the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation

Laurel Brake and James Mussell

2015-12-10 Issue 21 • 2015 • The Nineteenth-Century Digital Archive