Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4), pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)
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Abstract
This essay discusses eighteenth-century student borrowings from the University of Glasgow, using these as a case study to examine how digital transformations of manuscript sources might help us move beyond received narratives and technologies of Enlightenment. It argues that while many of the assumptions of digital systems are inherited from Enlightenment discourses, freeing data from the confines of physical space using simple digital approaches has considerable potential for allowing us to construct a fuller, more detailed, and more democratic history of eighteenth-century readers and reading, surfacing idiosyncrasies, continuities, sociality, and forms of interconnection.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Aitken, Mr Brian and Sangster, Professor Matthew and Baston, Dr Karen |
| Authors: | Sangster, M., Baston, K., and Aitken, B. |
| College/School: | College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| ISSN: | 0013-2586 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1086-315X |
| Published Online: | 17 August 2021 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2021 ASECS |
| First Published: | First published in Eighteenth-Century Studies 54(4): 935-955 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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