Recent and Forthcoming Presentations

Articles, Talks, and Sections from Books

• Benton, Thomas H. "Authoritative Online Editions." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 6 July 2007: C2.

• Blansfield, Karen. C. "Tyger, Tyger, Byte by Byte." OIT Review 3.2 (spring/summer 1995): 12-14. Magazine published by the Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Bryan, Julia. "Blake Unbound." Endeavors (fall 1997). Alumni magazine published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Chossegros, Aurélia. "Le Site à la loupe: The William Blake Archive." L'Observatoire Critique. 17 Jan. 2007. Abstract (in English); article (in French).

• Cooper, Andrew, and Michael Simpson. "The High-Tech Luddite of Lambeth: Blake's Eternal Hacking." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (summer 1999): 125-31. [See also Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum; Johnson, Mary Lynn; and Kroeber, Karl.]

• Cooper, Andrew, and Michael Simpson. "Looks Good in Practice, But Does It Work in Theory? Rebooting the Blake Archive." Wordsworth Circle 31.1 (winter 2000): 63-68.

• Dane, Joseph A. Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2011. [Dane discusses the Blake Archive on pages 136-40.]

• Dent, Shirley. "Bruised without Mercy." Rev. of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, and Songs of Innocence and Experience [sic], by William Blake, ed. Robert N. Essick. Times Literary Supplement. 15 May 2009: 22.

• Eaves, Morris. "Behind the Scenes at the William Blake Archive: Collaboration Takes More Than E-mail." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3.2 (Dec. 1997).

• Eaves, Morris. "Crafting Editorial Settlements." RoN: Romanticism on the Net [now RaVon] 41-42 (Feb.-May 2006).

• Eaves, Morris. "Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment." Electronic Textual Editing. Ed. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. New York: MLA, 2006. 210-23.

• Eaves, Morris. "Picture Problems: X-Editing Images 1992-2010." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (summer 2009)

• Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. "The William Blake Archive: The Medium When the Millenium Is the Message." Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed. Tim Fulford. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 219-33.

• Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. See also Kraus, Kari.

• Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. "Standards, Methods, and Objectives in the William Blake Archive." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (summer 1999): 135-44. [See also Cooper, Andrew, and Michael Simpson, "The High-Tech Luddite of Lambeth: Blake's Eternal Hacking"; Johnson, Mary Lynn; and Kroeber, Karl.]

• Editors and Staff of the William Blake Archive. "The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive." RLG DigiNews 4.1 (Feb. 2000).

• Esterhammer, Angela. "Blake and Language." Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Ed. Nicholas M. Williams. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 63-84. [Esterhammer discusses the Blake Archive on page 82. See also Hilton, Nelson, "Blake and the Play of 'Textuality'"; and Jones, John H.]

• Galvin, Rachel. "William Blake: Visions and Verses." Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 25.3 (May/June 2004): 16-20.

• Gitelman, Lisa. "New Media </Body>." Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 123-50. [Gitelman discusses the Blake Archive on pages 139-44.]

• Hayles, N. Katherine. "Romantic Bits: Embedded in Media." Plenary address at the eighth annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Tempe, AZ, Sept. 14-17, 2000.

• Hayles, N. Katherine. "Translating Media." My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005. 89-116. Excerpt.

• Hayles, N. Katherine. "Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality." Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 16.2 (2003): 263-90.

• Hilton, Nelson. "Blake and the Play of 'Textuality.'" Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Ed. Nicholas M. Williams. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 85-105. [Hilton discusses the Blake Archive on pages 87, 95, and 102. See also Esterhammer, Angela; and Jones, John H.]

• Hilton, Nelson. "Golgonooza Text." Digital Designs on Blake. Ed. Ron Broglio. Jan. 2005. Romantic Circles.

• Jackson, Marni. "O Rose Thou Art Chic: A William Blake Web Site Prompts Thoughts about the Relationship between Words and Pictures." Toronto Globe and Mail. 10 Feb. 2001: D18.

• Johnson, Mary Lynn. "Contingencies, Exigencies, and Editorial Praxis: The Case of the 2008 Norton Blake." Editing and Reading Blake. Ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck. Sept. 2010. Romantic Circles. [See also Lee, Rachel, and J. Alexandra McGhee; Ripley, Wayne C., "Delineation Editing of Co-Texts: William Blake’s Illustrations," and "Introduction: Editing Blake"; and Van Kleeck, Justin.]

• Johnson, Mary Lynn. "The Iowa Blake Videodisc Project: A Cautionary History." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (summer 1999): 131-35. [See also Cooper, Andrew, and Michael Simpson, "The High-Tech Luddite of Lambeth: Blake's Eternal Hacking"; Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum; and Kroeber, Karl.]

• Jones, John H. "Blake's Production Methods." Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Ed. Nicholas M. Williams. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 25-41. [Jones discusses the Blake Archive on pages 38-39. See also Esterhammer, Angela; and Hilton, Nelson, "Blake and the Play of 'Textuality'."]

• Jones, Stephen E. "The William Blake Archive: An Overview." Literature Compass 3.3 (Apr. 2006): 409-16. Abstract.

• Kirschenbaum, Matthew. "Documenting Digital Images: Textual Meta-data at the Blake Archive." The Electronic Library 16.4 (Aug. 1998): 239-41. [See also a notice of this item in the Sept. 1998 issue of Current Cites.]

• Kirschenbaum, Matthew. "Managing the Blake Archive." Guest column for Romantic Circles (Mar. 1998).

• Kirschenbaum, Matthew. "Remediating Blake." ArtByte: The Magazine of Digital Culture 2.2 (summer 1999): 100-a1.

• Kraus, Kari. "'Once Only Imagined': An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the Past, Present, and Future of Blake Studies." Studies in Romanticism 41 (summer 2002): 143-99. Kraus's interview has been published online by Romantic Circles.

• Kroeber, Karl. "The Blake Archive and the Future of Literary Studies." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (summer 1999): 123-25. [See also Cooper, Andrew, and Michael Simpson, "The High-Tech Luddite of Lambeth: Blake's Eternal Hacking"; Eaves, Morris, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum; and Johnson, Mary Lynn.]

• Lee, Rachel, and J. Alexandra McGhee. "'The productions of time': Visions of Blake in the Digital Age.'" Editing and Reading Blake. Ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck. Sept. 2010. Romantic Circles. [See also Johnson, Mary Lynn, "Contingencies, Exigencies, and Editorial Praxis: The Case of the 2008 Norton Blake"; Ripley, Wayne C., "Delineation Editing of Co-Texts: William Blake’s Illustrations," and "Introduction: Editing Blake"; and Van Kleeck, Justin.]

• McGann, Jerome J. "Imagining What You Don't Know: The Theoretical Goals of the Rossetti Archive." General Publications of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (Jan. 1998).

• McGarvey, Kathleen. "Burning Bright." Rochester Review 70.4 (Mar./Apr. 2008): 30-35.

• McGrane, Sally. "'Fearful Symmetry' Now in Pixels Bright." New York Times. 22 July 1999: E8.

• Miall, David S. "Romanticism in the Electronic Age." Romanticism: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Nicholas Roe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 708-20. [Miall discusses the Blake Archive on pages 713-15.]

• Miller, J. Hillis. "Digital Blake." The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture. Ed. Beverly Maeder, Jürg Schwyter, Ilona Sigrist, and Boris Vejdovsky. Translantic Aesthetics and Culture. Vol. 1. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2006. 29-49.

• Murphy, J. Stephen. "The Death of the Editor." Essays in Criticism 58.4 (Oct. 2008): 289-310. [Murphy discusses the Blake Archive on pages 301-03.]

• Murphy, Robin. "Illuminating William Blake." Intelligent Agent: Interactive Media in Arts and Education 2.2 (summer 1998).

• Pitti, Daniel, and John Unsworth. "After the Fall: Structured Data at IATH." Paper from the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Debrecen, Hungary, July 1998.

• Ripley, Wayne C. "Delineation Editing of Co-Texts: William Blake’s Illustrations." Editing and Reading Blake. Ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck. Sept. 2010. Romantic Circles. [See also Johnson, Mary Lynn, "Contingencies, Exigencies, and Editorial Praxis: The Case of the 2008 Norton Blake"; Lee, Rachel, and J. Alexandra McGhee; Ripley, Wayne C., "Introduction: Editing Blake"; and Van Kleeck, Justin.]

• Ripley, Wayne C. "Introduction: Editing Blake." Editing and Reading Blake. Ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck. Sept. 2010. Romantic Circles. [See also Johnson, Mary Lynn, "Contingencies, Exigencies, and Editorial Praxis: The Case of the 2008 Norton Blake"; Lee, Rachel, and J. Alexandra McGhee; Ripley, Wayne C., "Delineation Editing of Co-Texts: William Blake’s Illustrations"; and Van Kleeck, Justin.]

• Saklofske, Jon. "NewRadial: Revisualizing the Blake Archive." Visualizing the Archive, spec. issue of Poetess Archive Journal 2.1 (2010).

• Saklofske, Jon. "Remediating William Blake: Unbinding the Network Architectures of Blake's Songs." European Romantic Review 22.3 (June 2011): 381-88.

• Thomas, Julia. "Getting the Picture: Word and Image in the Digital Archive." European Journal of English Studies 11.2 (2007): 193-206. [Thomas discusses the Blake Archive on pages 197-200.]

• Unsworth, John. "The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship." The British Library. London. 13 May 2008. Guest Lecture.

• Van Kleeck, Justin. "Editioning William Blake’s VALA/The Four Zoas." Editing and Reading Blake. Ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck. Sept. 2010. Romantic Circles. [See also Johnson, Mary Lynn, "Contingencies, Exigencies, and Editorial Praxis: The Case of the 2008 Norton Blake"; Lee, Rachel, and J. Alexandra McGhee; and Ripley, Wayne C., "Delineation Editing of Co-Texts: William Blake’s Illustrations," and "Introduction: Editing Blake."]

• Viscomi, Joseph. "Blake's Virtual Designs and Reconstruction of The Song of Los." RoN: Romanticism on the Net [now RaVon] 41-42 (Feb.-May 2006).

• Viscomi, Joseph. "Digital Facsimiles: Reading the William Blake Archive." Computers and the Humanities 36.1 (2002): 27-48.

• Walsh, John A. "Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. [See also Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen; Damian-Grint, Peter; and Price, Kenneth M.]

• "William Blake Archive Expands with New Grant." The Herald-Sun. 14 Sept. 2010.

• "William Blake Archive Online." News and Observer. 3 Oct. 2010.

Reviews

• Curran, Stuart. "The William Blake Archive." TEXT 12 (1999): 216-19.

• Hamel-Schwulst, M. "The William Blake Archive." Choice, Current [WEB] Reviews for Academic Libraries 35, Supplement (1998): 72.

• MERLOT English Editorial Board. "The William Blake Archive." MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), 25 Nov. 2010.

• Peterfreund, Stuart. "The William Blake Archive." European Romantic Review 13 (2002): 472-76.

Comments on the Archive

• Barron, Phillip. "Putting the 'Humanities' in 'Digital Humanities.'" Inside Higher Ed. 4 Nov. 2010.

• Damian-Grint, Peter. "Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. [Damian-Grint discusses the Blake Archive in the section on "Research sites." See also Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen; Price, Kenneth M; and Walsh, John A.]

• Effinger, Elizabeth C. "Anal Blake: Bringing up the Rear in Blakean Criticism." Queer Blake. Ed. Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 63-73. [Effinger discusses the Blake Archive on pages 64-65].

• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "The Humanities, Done Digitally." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8 May 2011.

• Hayles, N. Katherine. "Entering the Electronic Environment." Writing Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. 34-45. [Hayles discusses the Blake Archive on pages 42-45.]

• Price, Kenneth M. "Electronic Scholarly Editions." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. [Price discusses the Blake Archive in the introduction. See also Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen; Damian-Grint, Peter; and Walsh, John A.]

Miscellanea

• Clement, Tanya, and Gretchen Gueguen. "Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. [See also Damian-Grint, Peter; Price, Kenneth M; and Walsh, John A.]

• Cover Image and Featured Collection, D-Lib Magazine. Jan. 1999.

• Gilster, Paul A. "A Click Away from History." Carolina Alumni Review. Jan./Feb. 1999: 40-41.

• Johnson, Mary Lynn, and John E. Grant, ed. Blake's Poetry and Designs: Illuminated Works/Other Writings/Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2008. [This Norton Critical Edition makes use of the Blake Archive's transcriptions of the illuminated works and reproduces images provided by the Archive. The editors note that it is "designed to be used in tandem with the magnificent William Blake Archive ... and other online resources" (xi).]

• Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information and the Internet: How to Find It, How to Use It. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999. 50.

• Misic, Vladimir. "Mixed Raster Content for Processing of Colored Engravings." Diss. U of Rochester, 2003.

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009. [This edition of the MLA handbook uses the Blake Archive as an example of how to cite a Web publication and includes a screenshot of the Archive. See pages 182-83.]

• Pfau, Thomas. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. [Pfau ties his discussion of The [First] Book of Urizen to the Blake Archive's electronic edition of copy G.]

Works No Longer Available

• Guernsey, Lisa. "Searchable Archive Zooms in on William Blake's Illuminated Books." The Chronicle of Higher Education. Information Technology. 17 Sept. 1997. [This online article predates The Chronicle of Higher Education's daily news archives.]

• Hodgson, Elinor. "Feat in Modern Times." World Book Dealers. 4 Apr. 2001 <http://www.worldbookdealers.com>. [The Web site no longer exists.]

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