Tristram Shandy itself was at the forefront of technological innovations, both as copyright protection and as bravura performance. What John Mullan has called the “stuff” of Tristram Shandy are among the most accessible ways into the text.
Of these techniques, marbling is one of the easier (and more pleasurable) techniques to introduce into the…[Read more]

Project Bamboo (2008-2012) was a cyberinfrastructure initiative for the arts and humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. This is the grant proposal for the technical implementation phase of Project Bamboo (intended phase 1).

Project Bamboo (2008-2012) was a cyberinfrastructure initiative for the arts and humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. This was the initial proposal to the Mellon Foundation for the planning project, submitted January 2008.

Like Catherine Morland, we all dream of discovering that a manuscript tucked away in an archive, among dusty boxes in an attic, or in a mysterious chest in our guest room is really a long-forgotten work by a beloved author. This is the story of a collector who thought he had done just that – and a scholar who almost believed it. Fair warning: t…[Read more]

For Johnson, the “nose of the mind” can be understood as closely connected to a notion of the mind’s nose—in other words, the osmology or scent-connotations insofar as we can recover them. As I have argued elsewhere, the level to which that ambition is achievable is low. That said, in this essay I explore a few ways we can examine the work of…[Read more]