Resourceful Reading

The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture

Edited by Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon

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Format: paperback
378 pages
ISBN: 9781920899455

Publication: 11 Jan 2010

Publisher: 宅男导航

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This collection provides the first comprehensive account of how eResearch is transforming Australian literary studies in the 21st century.

Tags: essays, history, publishing

Katherine Bode is an associate professor in literary and textual studies at Australian National University.

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of 宅男导航. He is a general editor in 宅男导航鈥� 宅男导航 Studies in Australian Literature series.

Contributors

Resourceful reading: a new empiricism in the digital age?
Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon

Section 1: the state and future of the discipline
1. Structures, networks, institutions: the new empiricism, book history and literary history
鈥僁avid Carter
2. The book, scholarly editing and the electronic edition
鈥働aul Eggert
3. Old tricks for new dogs: resurrecting bibliography and literary history
鈥僀arol Hetherington

Section 2: case studies
4. Australian literature in the translation zone: Robert Dessaix and David Malouf
鈥僐obert Dixon
5. Australian literature in a world of books: a transnational history of Kylie Tennant鈥檚 The Battlers
鈥僐oger Osborne
6. Books in selected Australian newspapers, December 1930
鈥僐obert Thomson and Leigh Dale
7. Magical numbers
鈥僆vor Indyk
8. Emerging black writing and the University of Queensland Press
鈥僁eborah Jordan
9. Making Aboriginal history: the cultural mission in Australian book publishing and the publication of Henry Reynolds鈥檚 The Other Side of the Frontier
鈥僊ark Davis
10. From British domination to multinational conglomeration? A revised history of Australian novel publishing, 1950鈥�2007
鈥僈atherine Bode
11. Squinting at a sea of dots: visualising Australian readerships using statistical machine learning
鈥僇ulieanne Lamond and Mark Reid
12. Is a picture worth 10,175 Australian novels?
鈥僇ason D. Ensor
13. Voices from the past: gender, politics and the anthology
鈥僄illian Whitlock

Section 3: project reports
14. AustLit: creating a collaborative research space for Australian literary studies
鈥僈erry Kilner
15. : a report on the literature of Tasmania subset of the AustLit database
鈥僒ony Stagg and Philip Mead
16. AusStage: from database of performing arts to a performing database of the arts
鈥僋eal Harvey, Helena Grehan and Joanne Tompkins
17. Constructing APRIL: the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
鈥僇ohn Tranter and Elizabeth Webby
18. An Australian reading experience database, 1788鈥�
鈥働atrick Buckridge

Index

'The impressive range of material assembled here demonstrates that Australian literary studies are alive and well and opens up new perspectives for future study.'
Margaret Sankey The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

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