Googling the victorians

Journal of Victorian Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 72-86

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EID: 85014738012     PISSN: 13555502     EISSN: 17500133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/jvc.2005.10.1.72     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Lawford, Cynthia. 2000. ‘Diary’. London Review of Books, 21 September:36–7. see also Lawford, ‘“Thou shalt bid thy fair hands rove”:L.E.L.'s Wooing of Sex, Pain, Death and the Editor’, Romanticism on the Net, 29–30, February-May 2003, URL:http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n29/007718ar.html
2. Altick, Richard D., 1950. “ The phrase ‘scholar adventurers’ was invented by, for the title of his popular book ”. In The Scholar Adventurers New York:Macmillan.
3. Willis, Chris. 2002. ‘Out Flew the Web and Floated Wide:An Overview of the Uses of the Internet for Victorian Research’. Journal of Victorian Culture, 7:2:297–310.
4. Leary, Patrick. 2004. “ ‘Victorian Studies in the Digital Age’ ”. In The Victorians Since 1901:Histories, Representations and Revisions Edited by:Taylor, Miles, and Wolff, Michael. 201–214. Manchester:Manchester University Press.
5. Leary, Patrick. 1995. ‘Babbage's Children:Victorian Studies Resources on the Internet’. Victorians Institute Journal, 23:11–26.
6. It would be more accurate to say that Google and other search engines directly search, not the text itself, but the indices that they have previously generated from the text. Here and elsewhere I follow the less precise custom of referring to this process as searching of text.
7. Richard D. Altick, A Little Bit of Luck:The Making of an Adventurous Scholar (http://www.xlibris.com:Xlibris, 2002), 198.
8. Altick, Richard D., 1991. The Presence of the Present:Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel Columbus:Ohio State University Press. and Punch:The Lively Youth of a British Institution 1841–1851 (Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 1997).
9. Holmes, Thomas. 1912. London's Underworld 176–80. London:J.M. Dent. Available online through Project Gutenburg at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1420
10. Victorian Women Writers Project:http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/; Rossetti Archive:http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/index.html
11. Dictionary of Victorian London, http://www.victorianlondon.org/
12. The Nineteenth Century in Print, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html; Internet Library of Early Journals, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
13. Google press release, 14 December 14, 2004, http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html. See also the discussion and links in Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 81 (2 January 2005) at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-05.htm#google. SPARC is the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
14. Internet Archive press release, 14 December 2004, http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=25361
15. Press release, 9 June 2004:‘Old News is Good News as Newspaper Archive is Planned for the Web’, at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=press_release_newspaper. Among newspapers, the nineteenth-century files of only the Times and the Scotsman are currently available for digital searching.
16. Announcement on VICTORIA, 10 January 2005, by Caroline Kimbell of Thomson Gale UK, accessible at https://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/victoria.html
17. AHRB announcement, http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/awards/award_detail.asp?id=324061
18. William, St Clair. 2004. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 120–1. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. and passim.
19. St Clair, Reading Nation, 414–19.
20. Personal communication, 7 April 2004.
21. Personal communication, 6 April 2004. The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle is published by the University of California Press, which has thus far issued On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1993), Sartor Resartus (2000), and Historical Essays (2003).
22. McGann, Jerome. 2001. Radiant Textuality:Literary Studies After the World Wide Web New York:Palgrave Macmillan. McGann and others have established NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) to encourage the creation of peer-reviewed projects in a digital environment; see http://nines.org/
23. Gibson, O., 2002. ‘Demand jams 1901 census site’. Guardian, 2 January
24. Kathryn Hughes, ‘Ancestor worship’, Prospect, May 2002.
25. Eileen Curran, ‘Curran Index:Additions to and Corrections of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals,’ http://victorianresearch.org/curranindex.html; Curran, ‘Biographies of Some Obscure Contributors to 19th-century Periodicals’, http://victorianresearch.org/Obscure_contributors.html
26. ‘Chartist Ancestors’, http://www.chartists.net/
27. 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford:Oxford University Press. online version at http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/online/. The figure for ‘alive’ (versus 'active) during the reign is just under 24,000, while entries for all subjects alive during the nineteenth century make up well over half of the total number of ODNB entries, or over 28,500.
28. Faber, Robert. 2004. letter to contributors, 12 November 2004, accompanying. ODNB Newsletter, 10 November
29. Hewitt, Martin. 2001. ‘Victorian Studies:Problems and Prospects?’. Journal of Victorian Culture, 6:1 Spring:155