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Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access originally published online on November 25, 2008
Literary and Linguistic Computing 2009 24(1):53-62; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn036
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This article appears in the following Literary and Linguistic Computing issue: Special Issue 'Computing the Edition' [View the issue table of contents]

Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge

Julia Flanders

Brown University, USA

Correspondence: Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project, Box 1841, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. E-mail: Julia_Flanders{at}brown.edu

  Abstract

The concept of data in the humanistic academy carries a heavy cultural freight: as a reductionist yet efficient representation of complex textual significance. Far from being an invention of the digital age, this conception of the role of quantification has a prehistory whose terms continue to resonate in modern debates about digital editing and digitally mediated scholarship. This essay explores these terms and the anxieties they reflect, concluding that digital representation is no less textually and methodologically rich, and no less a production of knowledge, than its print counterpart.


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