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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Issue 5: Scholarly Editions

Edited by Franz Fischer, Ulrike Henny and Philipp Steinkrüger. 2017-02. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.5.

5 reviews in this issue.

Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts

Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html (Last Accessed: 2017-01-03). Reviewed by Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University).

Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition (JAFM), edited by Kathryn Sutherland, provides high-resolution pages images and diplomatic transcriptions for all of Austen’s surviving fiction manuscripts (totalling approximately 1100 manuscript pages), all unpublished in her lifetime. It assesses the site’s editorial principles, functionality, and…

Literary drafts, genetic criticism and computational technology. The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

Beckett, Samuel. Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word: a digital genetic edition (2011), | L'Innommable / The Unnamable: a digital genetic edition (2013) | Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande: a digital genetic edition (2015) | Series 'The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project' http://www.beckettarchive.org (Last Accessed: 2016-10-10). Reviewed by Anna-Maria Sichani (Huygens ING).

This article addresses the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, an evolving project, currently comprising a series of digital genetic editions of Samuel Beckett’s bilingual literary drafts and a digital library. Following the genetic school of editing, the project’s goal is to explore and represent as fully as possible the evolutionary dynamics of Beckett’s…

Lope de Vega’s La Dama Boba. Critical edition and digital archive

La dama boba: edición crítica y archivo digital http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/LADAMABOBA (Last Accessed: 2016-11-04). Reviewed by Antonio Rojas Castro (Cologne Center for eHumanities).

La dama boba: edición crítica y archivo digital is an ambitious project that focuses on the history of Lope de Vega’s play. It gives access to the facsimile and the modernized spelling transcription of three witnesses and it presents a critical text with an apparatus and explanatory notes. While it would benefit from documenting its markup and making all…

The 1641 Depositions

1641 Depositions http://1641.tcd.ie (Last Accessed: 2017-02-01). Reviewed by Walter Scholger (University of Graz).

This paper reviews the digital edition of the 1641 Depositions, a collection of witness accounts related to the Irish rebellion of 1641. An invaluable source for the cultural, social and religious history of Ireland, this collaborative effort of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge provides 19,010 pages of…

The William Blake Archive

The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org (Last Accessed: 2016-11-06). Reviewed by Kendal Crawford (Simon Fraser University) and Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University).

The William Blake Archive (WBA) attempts to remediate digitally William Blake’s entire corpus of poetic and artistic artifacts. The resulting website exhibits high-fidelity images of his surviving prints, plates, drawings, and canvases that would otherwise remain isolated in difficult-to-access collections around the world. Using an editorial strategy that…

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