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: Sydney University Press

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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 Sydney. He is a general editor in Sydney University Press’ Sydney 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
David Carter
2. The book, scholarly editing and the electronic edition
Paul Eggert
3. Old tricks for new dogs: resurrecting bibliography and literary history
Carol Hetherington

Section 2: case studies
4. Australian literature in the translation zone: Robert Dessaix and David Malouf
Robert Dixon
5. Australian literature in a world of books: a transnational history of Kylie Tennant’s The Battlers
Roger Osborne
6. Books in selected Australian newspapers, December 1930
Robert Thomson and Leigh Dale
7. Magical numbers
Ivor Indyk
8. Emerging black writing and the University of Queensland Press
Deborah Jordan
9. Making Aboriginal history: the cultural mission in Australian book publishing and the publication of Henry Reynolds’s The Other Side of the Frontier
Mark Davis
10. From British domination to multinational conglomeration? A revised history of Australian novel publishing, 1950–2007
Katherine Bode
11. Squinting at a sea of dots: visualising Australian readerships using statistical machine learning
Julieanne Lamond and Mark Reid
12. Is a picture worth 10,175 Australian novels?
Jason D. Ensor
13. Voices from the past: gender, politics and the anthology
Gillian Whitlock

Section 3: project reports
14. AustLit: creating a collaborative research space for Australian literary studies
Kerry Kilner
15. A place in stories: a report on the literature of Tasmania subset of the AustLit database
Tony Stagg and Philip Mead
16. AusStage: from database of performing arts to a performing database of the arts
Neal Harvey, Helena Grehan and Joanne Tompkins
17. Constructing APRIL: the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
John Tranter and Elizabeth Webby
18. An Australian reading experience database, 1788–
Patrick 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