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Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use innovative techniques, such as processing metadata from vast archives of early modern prose, coding Milton's geographical references on maps, and visualizing debt networks from literature and from life. Other chapters discuss the technologies and platforms shaping how literature reaches us today, from audiobooks to eReaders, from the OED Online to Wikipedia, and from Twitter to YouTube. Digital Milton is the first say on a topic that will become ever more important to scholars, students, and teachers of early modern literature in the years to come.
List of contents
1. Milton! Thou Shouldst Be Living in These Media - David Currell and Islam Issa.- 2. The John Milton Reading Room and the Future of Digital Pedagogy - Cordelia Zukerman.- 3. "Is There a Class in this Audiotext?": Paradise Lost and the Multimodal Social Edition - Olin Bjork and John Rumrich.- 4. "Apt Numbers": On Line Citations of Paradise Lost - David Currell.- 5. Form and Computation: A Case Study - Anupam Basu.- 6. Mapping the Moralized Geography of Paradise Lost - Randa El Khatib and David Currell.- 7. "Still Paying, Still to Owe": Credit, Community, and Small Data in Shakespeare and Milton - Peter C. Herman.- 8. The Online Revolution: Milton and the Internet in the Middle East - Islam Issa.- 9. Digital Milton and Student Research - David Ainsworth.- 10. Milton for Millenials: Sponsoring Digital Creativity through Milton Revealed - Hugh Macrae Richmond.- 11. Epilogue: Milton in the Digital Waves - Angelica Duran.
About the author
David Currell is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Islam Issa is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Birmingham City University, UK.
Summary
Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use innovative techniques, such as processing metadata from vast archives of early modern prose, coding Milton’s geographical references on maps, and visualizing debt networks from literature and from life. Other chapters discuss the technologies and platforms shaping how literature reaches us today, from audiobooks to eReaders, from the OED Online to Wikipedia, and from Twitter to YouTube.
Digital Milton is the first say on a topic that will become ever more important to scholars, students, and teachers of early modern literature in the years to come.
