Description
Book SynopsisExamines how book history and digital humanities practices are integrated through approach, access, and assessment. Contributors consider and reimagine the interconnected futures and horizons at the intersections of texts, technology, and culture and argue for a return to a more representative and human study of the humanities.
Trade Review“Book history and digital humanities are increasingly entangled, and it makes sense why: we cannot understand our digital moment without knowing the technologies and textual cultures that came before.
Intermediate Horizons shows how these fields speak to each other, and why we need to pay attention.”—Whitney Trettien, University of Pennsylvania
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Intermediate Horizons offers a vital set of reports on the history and future of the book. Traversing the shared territory of the digital humanities and book-historical studies, the essays in this volume provide fresh perspectives on the wonderful complexities of media and mediation.”—Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
“Impressively informative and thought-provoking throughout.”—
Midwest Book Review“Offers something for every book historian, regardless of familiarity with or enthusiasm for digital integration. . . . As we continue to reflect on the intersections of bibliography and digital humanities, we must also reflect on what we want new technologies to do and why. Book historians have long been reflecting on technologies of the past, highlighting the disruptive nature of text. These same book historians also need to turn their heads towards the future.
Intermediate Horizons represents a sharp glance in the right direction.”—
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Foreword: Intermediate Horizons
by Matthew Kirschenbaum
Introduction
by Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha
Section I. Approach
1 Benjamin Franklin’s Postal Work
by Christy L. Pottroff
2 Linking Book History and the Digital Humanities via Museum Studies
by Jayme Yahr
Section II. Access
3 Material and Digital Traces in Patterns of Nature: Early Modern Botany Books and Seventeenth-Century Needlework
by Mary Learner
4 Opening the Book: The Utopian Dreams and Uncertain Future of Open Access Textbook Publishing
by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright
5 Books of Ours: What Libraries Can Learn About Social Media from Books of Hours
by Alexandra Alvis
Section III. Assessment
6 Whose Books Are Online? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Online Text Collections
by Catherine A. Winters and Clayton P. Michaud
7 Electronic Versioning and Digital Editions
by Paul A. Broyles
8 Materialisms and the Cultural Turn in Digital Humanities
by Mattie Burkert
Contributors
Index
