Stallybrass, “Against Thinking”

One of the first theoretical pieces I encountered on the Digital Humanities was Peter Stallybass’ “Against Thinking,” which I read in last semester’s American Lit seminar. Stallybrass is specifically addressing Ed Folsom’s Walt Whitman archive, but, more broadly, he discusses

Notes on Reade Visit

Note: huge difference between how he himself writes on the cards and what they look like when the secretary copies them afterwards. Secretary’s is neater, with sections spaced out by straight double-lines in purple ink. Why purple? Did he use

Quarry for Middlemarch

Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the