Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal
Organizer:
Ina Habermann (Basel) & Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg)
Mapping and Modelling the Transnational Circulation of English Poetry: An Introduction to the STEMMA project
This paper introduces the ERC-funded project STEMMA, which offers the first large-scale quantitative analysis of the manuscript circulation of English poetry between 1475 and 1700. By necessity, scholars have tended to treat manuscripts as case studies, but STEMMA seeks to identify patterns and trends at scale. Ultimately, it will reveal the emerging audience for English poetry to be more varied and more geographically dispersed, and yet also more interconnected, than traditional methods of literary historical research have allowed us to see.
Erin McCarthy is the Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council and European Research Council-Funded project ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse 1475-1700’ which computationally maps and models the movement of English poetry through early modern social networks. It will apply insights from network analysis and graph theory to provide the most comprehensive overview of the circulation of early modern English verse in manuscript to date.
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