Extreme Reading: Josephine Miles and the Scale of the Pre-Digital Digital Humanities

[...]haunting my strong interest in and identification with these archival materials is my despair, brought out by the busy pointlessness of recounting Miles's countings, an effort which necessarily underscores her misapprehensions and errors and complicates my effort to celebrate her scholarsh...

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Published in:ELH 2019, Vol.86 (2), p.355-385
Main Author: Pasanek, Brad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambiguity
Authorship
Biographies
British & Irish literature
Collaboration
College students
Creativity
Digital humanities
English literature
Epic literature
Essays
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Folklore
Heroism & heroes
Identity
Literary criticism
Narrative techniques
Poetry
Poets
Publishing
Publishing industry
Reading
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Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
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Summary:[...]haunting my strong interest in and identification with these archival materials is my despair, brought out by the busy pointlessness of recounting Miles's countings, an effort which necessarily underscores her misapprehensions and errors and complicates my effort to celebrate her scholarship. [...]I am uncertain how to understand Miles as a disabled woman, an identity which figures so prominently in most accounts of her critical and creative work. Tallies of A-N-V proportions. Because these tabulations bulk largest in her archive as the main product of Miles's working methods, I will explain how they were made. [...]Tuve's full phrasing replaces a more anodyne clause—struck through in pencil—that states "the method does not seem designed to help us therein. [...]the tedium of transcription was shared by her graduate student assistants: several packets of transcription are not in Miles's hand.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2019.0018