Literary and theoretical texts for all your Digital Humanities needs.
Primary Literary Texts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Archive (2008)
This is like Disneyworld for Digital Humanists: all of Rossetti's works and paintings are here, all in one place. You can click, link, read, download, search, and even (gasp)… have fun.As you exp...
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
It's a philosophical tract about the French Revolution. But it's so well written it's also a literary work. Taking Burke's book as an example, how, do you think, can digital technology help us map...
Walt Whitman, The Walt Whitman Archive (2014)
Yep, you guessed it: here are all the works of one of America's greatest poets, all in one place. Plus, there are supplementary materials like letters, notebooks, essays and journalism for you read...
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)
Austen's last published novel, which tells the love story of Anne Elliot and the handsome Captain Wentworth. Let's just put it this way: they wait a long, long time before getting together.In what...
Archibald MacLeish, "'Dover Beach'—A Note to that Poem" (1936)
MacLeish re-envisions Matthew Arnold's famous poem, "Dover Beach."What are the patterns of style and vocabulary that you can identify in this poem? In what ways can a digital analysis of all o...
Primary Theoretical Texts
A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (eds.) (2005)
This is the book that popularized the term "Digital Humanities." What else is there to say?According to the contributions in this book, what are some of the important ways in which we can apply dig...
Digital Humanities in Practice by Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan (Eds.) (2011)
This is a collection of essays that shows us Digital Humanists doin' their thing. As in, practicing Digital Humanities. (Har har.)How have Digital Humanists applied digital tools like crowdsourcing...
Debates in the Digital Humanities by Matthew K. Gold (ed.) (2012)
Here's a book that lays out all the debates in the field. So now we don't have to debate what the debates are, right?How can the Digital Humanities function as a disruptive force in academic schola...
Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt (eds.) (2013)
Is information technology changing the face of higher education? Is it changing the face of education in general? The contributors in this collection think so. What are some of the fundamental ways...
Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte (eds.) (2013)
Many of the seminal essays in the field can be found in this collection. It's a nifty place to start for getting a sense of where the field is today.How and why did the transition from "Humanities...