The Lake District Online project, based on a collection of rare books held in SFU Special Collections, aims to create the first full-text electronic archive of Lake District travel writing dating from the early 18th c. Professor Linley will talk about the process of mobilizing new digital humanities methods and tools to study book history and to ask what it means to explore the book ecologically. A key question to be addressed is: what is at stake when the Victorian memorializing view of natural, common space, inherited from Wordsworth and more than a century of domestic travel writing, itself begins to travel – not only between geographic locations but between print and digital media? Initial research and digitization stages have revealed some unique challenges and questions, perhaps the most central being: what is the nature of this object called a book and what is it to become after it migrates to a digital environment?
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