Collection: Digital Modern Languages Section Launch Issue
Articles - Digital Modern Languages
Mapping and Reading a World of Translations: Prismatic Jane Eyre
Authors:
- Matthew ReynoldsEmail Matthew Reynolds
- Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Abstract
This article explores the interaction between DH techniques and traditional practices of scholarship and reading in the ongoing Prismatic Jane Eyre project. First, it describes the challenges of creating digital maps of the global distribution of translations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre through space and time, and the new perspectives on translation, and fresh avenues for archival scholarship, that emerged from this process. It then shows how digital investigation of the type-token ratio can enter into productive dialogue with human close reading, generating a nuanced understanding of the workings of translation across several languages.
- Page/Article: 23
- DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.375
- Published on 17 Dec 2021
- Peer Reviewed