{"title":"The Technical Development and Expanding Scope of Melville's Marginalia Online","authors":"Peter C. Norberg, Steven Olsen-Smith","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904375","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Melville's Marginalia Online was created by the authors in 2006 with the goal of making evidence of Melville's reading broadly available to scholarship. Carrying on the work of Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and Wilson Walker Cowen, MMO maintains the documentary record of books Melville is known to have owned or borrowed and digitally edits his marginalia for open access by web users. Cross-disciplinary collaborations at the project have produced new digital tools for accessing and studying Melville's marginalia. In addition to introducing readers to MMO and its features, this article provides an overview of marginalia study in Melville criticism and explains how enhanced methods of inquiry present significant opportunities to assess and extend the work of earlier criticism on Melville. As its scope expands into areas of natural language processing and source study and as its technology is developed still further, MMO will provide scholars, students, and enthusiasts with the ability to identify the impact of Melville's reading on his own literary productions with new degrees of accuracy. Data informed scholarship, we believe, will build on the best Melville criticism of the past century and move Melville studies toward comprehensive and informed knowledge of his thought and writing.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"51 1","pages":"61 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86836239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Melville and Computational Methods in Literary Studies","authors":"D. Mischke, Christopher Ohge","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904374","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The use of computational tools for the study of literature can facilitate new perspectives and avenues for critical work. Reflecting on the recent emergence of (and increasing hype around) large languages models such as GPT, this essay argues that the creation of \"smart\" data sets and corpora as new forms of literary objects requires and enables the development of computational methods and tools that can create \"data stories\". Smart data sets continue a humanistic tradition of textual scholarship and bibliography while also preparing text data to be \"read\" by machines. In telling \"data stories\" about Herman Melville, we bridge the gap from \"numbers to meaning\" in a variety of examples from Billy Budd. The essay closes with a broader reflection on reading Melville in the age of machine learning and artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"37 1","pages":"35 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82112142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Greiman, Justine s. Murison, Michael Jonik, M. Crow, J. Parra, Carrie Tirado Bramen, R. Tally, Andrew Donnelly, Gabriel Briex, Stuart Burrows
{"title":"Conference Abstracts: MLA 2023","authors":"Jennifer Greiman, Justine s. Murison, Michael Jonik, M. Crow, J. Parra, Carrie Tirado Bramen, R. Tally, Andrew Donnelly, Gabriel Briex, Stuart Burrows","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904381","url":null,"abstract":"A J o u r n A l o f M e l v i l l e S t u d i e S 141 takes on the management of both skepticism and religious belief, and both are central to the herb doctor chapters. the irony the novel uncovers is how, in a secular society that champions skepticism, there is not a robust language for the confidence necessary to everyday interactions. conspiracy theory is both a symptom of this irony—and its end result. Melville’s Dialogic Thinking: Philosophical Styles in The Confidence-Man","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"57 1","pages":"139 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90845703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The \"Material Autobiography\" of Melville's Print Collection Online","authors":"S. Otter, R. K. Wallace","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904376","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Melville's Print Collection Online (MPCO) is a digital humanities website designed to exhibit, document, and interpret the 420 prints we know (so far) that Melville collected. Three of eight planned chapters have been completed and are available on the site. MPCO offers high-resolution images and discussions of the prints in relation to art history; to Melville's fiction, poetry, journals, and correspondence; and to his life as author and collector. In this essay we consider Melville's acquisition of prints as what Susan M. Pearce, in On Collecting, terms an \"act of imagination\"; we describe the structure of the site; and we analyze three examples that convey MPCO's range of images and approaches, the discoveries that the Web has enabled, and the interpretive possibilities that the site affords. These examples span a range of techniques (line engraving, lithograph, mezzotint) and topics (Greek tragedy, topographical view, biblical miracle) and relate to issues prominent in Melville's writing and life: the reach of imagination, the geography of politics, and the intimacies of absence and presence.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"52 1","pages":"106 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75023543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Access and Affiliation: A Biography of Digital Melville","authors":"J. Bryant","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904373","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This biography of the Melville Electronic Library recounts its growth in the context of the development of the intellectual potentials and technological challenges of digital humanities scholarship and reflects on the prospect of an affiliation of Melville projects, collectively called Digital Melville. MEL's fluid-text editorial approach is designed to give readers fuller access to interpretable versions of Melville's works. its proposed interactive visualization of Melville's lost copy or \"third Moby-Dick\" exemplifies how readers may navigate revisions to Melville's text otherwise obscured, dismissed, or \"disappeared\" in traditional editing. Digital technology addresses such problems of denied access and builds multi-generational, international communities, evident in MEL's interactive editing and mapping tools TextLab and Itinerary. By embracing \"adaptive\" as well as authorial and editorial revision, MEL's more comprehensive fluid-text approach also enables material-based contextualization of Melville in adaptation and translation. MEL's three-part structure—Archive, Editions, Projects—invites readers to use the archived and edited materials to generate new scholarship or linked sites. Its current affiliation with the University of Chicago's CEDAR initiative and its transition to Chicago's OCHRE database system is a step toward enhanced interoperability, and may inspire other digital projects, big and small, to join the emergent Digital Melville community.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"149 1","pages":"34 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78136044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Digital Melville","authors":"Brian D Yothers, Jennifer Greiman","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"128 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80405704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1851–1877 ed. by Cody Marrs (review)","authors":"T. Constantinesco","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"1 1","pages":"109 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89641500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Response to Some of Melville's Early Books in Australia","authors":"M. Howard","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"7 1","pages":"125 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80264275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herman Melville is Back in Taipivai","authors":"André Revel, Jacques Iakopo Pelleau","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"1 1","pages":"133 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89335543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}