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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People, by Carolyn Vellenga Berman; pp. ix + 353. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, $125.00. The formative effects of Dickens's [...]

William W. Cleghorn (1815–1878) was an Indian trader and fur trader who worked in northern Indiana and later in the Kansas Territory. Cleghorn's business and personal papers, held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington, are here excerpted with scholarly footnotes, and published for the first time. The papers provide a look into mid-nineteenth-century Indiana and the West through the lenses of Native Removal, the Indian trade and fur trade, the operation of the federal Office of Indian Affairs, and the webs of patronage and influence that made up life for so many people like William Cleghorn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the 'Circe' episode of Ulysses has been underserved with regard to one of its most significant sources, the sadomasochistic magazine Bits of Fun, which has never been fully examined. This source is followed more closely by Joyce in the novel's Bella/ Bello scene than has been realized, as well as in the 'Ithaca' episode and Finnegans Wake. The exact issues that Joyce used have not yet been correctly identified, and the 'Circe' notesheets have consequently been misdated. Joyce drew on Bits of Fun not only for his theme of forcedfeminization in this episode, but also for more extreme details of bondage and torture, including even cannibalism and slavery. Based on this source, the text of Joyce's early draft material in both his 'Circe' notesheets and Ulysses notebooks should be emended in several places. Keywords: James Joyce / Ulysses / source criticism / periodicals / textual studies, Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good ghoststory ... --James Joyce, Ulysses (15.3052-53) Critics do not often comment on the fact that Bloom's sexual fantasies in [...]

Late in his artistic and scholarly career, W.G. Sebald decided to eschew then-emergent modes of computational media in favor of analogue production techniques. Sebald himself often remarked on his encounters with media, both new and old, expressing a consistent interest in the materiality of writing. In his own artistic practice, he preferred the process of handwriting to what he called the tyranny of 'PC Perfectionism.' Scenes of writing, and the technologies of pen, paper, and pencil, appear regularly throughout Sebald's corpus, especially in The Rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001). These elegiac encounters with residual technologies informed Sebald's literary aesthetic. The novel Austerlitz, in particular, foregrounds media history and the evolution of modes of writerly work. In this novel, written in the shadow of new modes of digital writing that were becoming ubiquitous at the end of the twentieth century, Sebald's poetics of media obsolescence emerges as key preoccupation in his aesthetic project. Keywords: W.G. Sebald / media / materiality / writing / digital, It was odd ... but she had the impression that although everything else was in perfect order the writing desk had not been dusted for years. What can be the [...]

This essay argues that George Gissing's novel New Grub Street (1891)—long noted for its powerful, if gloomy, representation of late-Victorian authorship and publishing—not only presupposes but also critically incorporates the era's epochal transition from rag paper to paper made from harvested esparto grass and wood pulp. In Gissing's treatment of industrialized publishing, the trade in printed writing takes on central features of the thriving paper industry carefully placed in the novel's background, including its linking of overproduction via inexpensive inputs to the specter of wholesale devastation. Reading New Grub Street as a novel on paper draws our attention to the resource ecologies and even the natural histories of late-nineteenth-century authorship, media, and print capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this report, we present the results of two lexicometric analyses performed on a digitalized version of Charles S. Peirce's Collected Papers. We calculated the most frequently cited terms in the corpus and its most overrepresented terms, as compared with a sample of the Corpus of Historical American. Combining both analyses allowed us to produce a shorter list of the 'most important terms' of the Collected Papers, deemed to be distinctive of Peirce's philosophical interests. One of the most significant findings is the quantitative evidence that Peirce's work is primarily concerned with truth and propositions. We suggest that such statistical analyses offer an interesting overview of Peirce's philosophical interests in an unprecedented way. Keywords: C.S. Peirce, Textual Statistics, Lexicometry, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Digital Humanities., In an 1894 manuscript addendum (R 422) to the seminal 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear', which he had written in 1877, Charles Peirce stated that 'there are many people [...]

When Rokhl Korn settled in Montreal in 1948, the period she called her 'years of wandering' (na v'nod yorn) finally came to an end. Yet a profound sense of dislocation marks the poetry she produced in this postwar urban setting, where a declining Yiddish culture formed a 'third solitude' bounded on either side by Quebec's hostile Anglo-Protestant and French-Catholic communities. The lush natural description and images of Polish-Jewish harmony of Korn's prewar poetry were replaced in her postwar poetry by somber symbolism, in which the recurring motif of white paper signifies the futile attempt to recreate a vanished world. Tracing the imagistic shift in Korn's writing from thriving trees to lifeless paper, this essay explores what Korn regarded as the transformation of Yiddish from an organic, indigenous aspect of interwar Poland to an uprooted, moribund refugee language within a culturally divided urban space. The essay thus sheds light on an underexplored Yiddish woman poet while expanding the dominant narrative of American Yiddish literature to include the unique experience of Holocaust refugees in Montreal., 'I stand in the midst of defoliated time like a naked tree.'--Rokhl Korn Born Rokhl (Rachel) Haring in 1898 on a farming estate near Podliski, East Galicia, Rokhl Korn grew [...]

In 1981, Indiana University's Lilly Library acquired 1,200 cartons of papers from the office of outgoing Indiana senator Birch Bayh. Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist at Indiana University Libraries, describes the long and complicated process whereby library staff organized the files into the Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers, now part of the Modern Political Papers collection at Indiana University, Bloomington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A brief introduction to the papers presented at a conference held at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2023, called "John Lachs and American Philosophy," organized by the Philosophy Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. The symposium includes papers by Herman Saatkamp, John Stuhr, Eric Weber, and Chris Skowroński. It is followed by a response from John Lachs written down by Michael Hodges based on conversations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking, Ed. and with an introduction by Reginald Byron. Foreword by Bruno Nettl. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. ISBN 0-226-08829-4 cloth. [...]

This article details a major digitization and access project to make Variety's run from 1905 to 1940 freely available online. It uses multiple quantitative research methods--including distant-reading practices of the Digital Humanities and quantitative content analysis--to argue that Variety's decisions about when and how to cover the film and radio industries need to be understood as a series of specific internal strategies made in relation to a dynamic business environment. Situating the project's digitization of Variety as a form of philology, the authors argue that corpus digitization should be considered a scholarly practice, not simply a technical one. KEYWORDS: Variety, Digital Humanities, philology, distant reading, content analysis, Hollywood trade press, In 2010, Variety launched the subscription-based Variety Archives, a searchable online database of most issues of Variety and Daily Variety published from 1905 to the present. (1) Shortly thereafter, Variety [...]

The South African ruling class has always relied on mystification of information (through its control of the media) in order to muffle the voices of resistance culture and, thereby, entrench [...]

Recent work in early modern English collecting and bookbinding has shown the extent to which readers viewed books as malleable collections rather than unified totalities. This essay expands our understanding of these practices by examining a series of volumes collected and bound during the second half of the seventeenth century. These volumes show texts transformed by their proximity to other, often incongruous imprints, as well as readers registering their own presence amidst the chaotic print world of Civil War England., DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF ASSIDUOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLlectors and early twentieth-century librarians, a decent number of volumes that bind together a collection of disparate early modern imprints remain extant today. One [...]

Uncertainties and ambiguities are evident in discourses of contemporary women's activisms in Egypt, as are anxieties about young women's roles in them. In spite of a tendency to take the NGO for granted as the site of activism in Egypt, this article highlights the activities of young women outside the usual structures. I describe a 'leadership industry' that seeks to reproduce established models of activism, raising questions about the replicability of activist 'pipelines' and calling attention to their use as a prop for unjust and inadequate social and political structures. Concurrently, young women's Islamically inspired volunteerism presents an alternative notion of activism that turns away from liberal prescriptions. Drawing on key scholarship as well as my own experiences with prominent women's NGOs and the 2008 Women as Global Leaders Conference, I seek to show how these trajectories help inform ambiguities and assumptions about contemporary women's activism., There is a revealing gap in the literature, a lack of clarity, and a deep anxiety around young women in contemporary Egyptian activism. In this article, I analyze trends among [...]

Focuses on the novel `A Rainbow on the Paper Sky,' by South African author Mandla Langa. Plot of the novel; Inspiration from the resistance to the Bantu Homelands Act of 1971; Ideological persuasion on readers; Presentation of a counterhegemonic view of history; Espousal of democratic values.

INTRODUCTION Google.com, the ultramodern measuring stick for social and political currency, lists some 17.6 million results for a search on "globalization." (1) Front pages and op-ed pieces from major international [...]

The article reports on the Digitale Edition von Quellen zur habsburgisch-osmanischen Diplomatie 1500-1918 (Qhod), a digital editing project created in 2020 at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to research and digitally edit sources of the diplomatic contacts between Vienna and Istanbul, Turkey beginning in the 1490s. Topics include the launch of the project website, the first group of primary sources and execution of Qhod transcriptions.