Bibliography

Note on the Bibliography

This bibliography does not pretend to be complete or even representative of the research now being done on electronic texts and text encoding. It represents the texts and discussions which the WWP has found most useful for our work. Suggestions are always welcome and should be sent to wwpcomments@brown.edu.

Books on Electronic Text, Text Encoding, and SGML

A small selection of books on various aspects of current research on electronic texts.

Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: perspectives on ergodic literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Goldfarb, Charles. The SGML Handbook, ed. Yuri Rubinski. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1990.
Herwijnen, Eric van. Practical SGML. Kluwer, 1994.
Ide, Nancy, and Jean Véronis, eds. The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. Kluwer, 1995. (Reprint of Computers and the Humanities 29 [1995], nos. 1 and 2.)
Robinson, Peter. The Transcription of Primary Textual Sources Using SGML. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications 6, 1994.
Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines to Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, ed. Lou Burnard and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Oxford and Chicago, 1994).
Chernaik, Warren, Marilyn Deegan, and Andrew Gibson, eds. Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture, and the Politics of Cyberspace. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications 7, 1996.
Chernaik, Warren, Caroline Davis, and Marilyn Deegan, eds. The Politics of the Electronic Text. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications 3, 1993.
Finneran, Richard, ed. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Ide, Nancy, and Susan Hockey, eds. Research in Humanities Computing. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Landow, George. Hypertext 2.0. Rev. ed. Johns Hopkins University press, 1997.
Sutherland, Kathryn, and Marilyn Deegan, eds. Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Articles on Electronic Text

These articles focus on theoretical issues in electronic textuality and editorial theory.

McGann, Jerome J. "The Rationale of Hypertext", in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford, 1997.
DeRose et al., "What is Text, Really?" in Journal of Computing in Higher Education 1:2, Winter 1990
Flanders, Julia. "Trusting the Electronic Edition", Computers and the Humanities 31:4 (1997/1998).
Renear et al., "Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies" in Research in Humanities Computing, ed. N. Ide, Oxford, 1995
Renear, Allen. "Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding," Monist, 1996
Renear, Allen. "Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality", in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford, 1997.
Thaler, Manfred, Dino Buzzetti, and Stefan Aumann, "Digital Manuscripts: Editions v. Archives" (conference session). Session site:http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Thaller/Thaller1.html
This session includes three papers:
- Buzzetti, Dino. "Digital Editions: Variant Readings and Interpretations,"http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Thaller/buzzetti.html
- Thaler, Manfred. "Text as a Data Type",http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Thaller/thaller2.html
- Aumann, Stefan. "Digital Archives",http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Thaller/aumann.html
The Electric Scriptorium: Approaches to the Electronic Imaging, Transcription, Editing and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts; A Physical & Virtual Conference (November, 1995).http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor/

Articles on SGML and Text Encoding

These are more technical articles addressing specific topics in text encoding.

Barnard, David, et al. "Hierarchical Encoding of Text: Technical Problems and SGML Solutions", in Computers and the Humanities 29, 211-231.
Bauman, Sydney. "Tables of Contents, TEI-Style." Text Technology: Journal of Computer Text Processing. Autumn 1995:235-247.
Brown, Susan, et al. "SGML and the Orlando Project: Descriptive Markup for an Electronic History of Women's Writing", Computers and the Humanities 31:4 (1997/1998).
Buzzetti, Dino. Image Processing and the Study of Manuscript Textual Traditions, in J. Fikfak and G. Jaritz (eds.), Image Processing in History: Towards open systems, Max-Plank-Institut f¸r Geschichte i. K. b. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen, 1993, pp. 45-63. Reprinted, with changes, in "Historical Methods", 28:3 (1995), pp. 145-154.
Buzzetti, Dino, and A. Tabarroni. "Database Edition of Non-collatable Textual Traditions," in The Electric Scriptorium: Electronic Approaches to the Imaging, Transcription, Editing, and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts, A Physical and Virtual Conference (Calgary, 10-12 November 1995).http://acs.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor/index/abstracts.html
Chisholm, David, and David Robey. "Encoding Verse Texts", in Computers and the Humanities 29, 99-111.
Flanders, Julia, et al. "Nouns Proper and Improper: Applying the TEI to the classification of proper nouns", Computers and the Humanities 31:4(1997/1998).
Lancashire, Ian. "Early Books, RET Encoding Guidelines, and the Trouble with SGML", in The Electric Scriptorium: Electronic Approaches to the Imaging, Transcription, Editing, and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts, A Physical and Virtual Conference (Calgary, 10-12 November 1995).http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor/papers/lanc.html
Lavagnino, John. "The Show Must Go On: Problems of Tagging Performance Texts", in Computers and the Humanities 29, 113-121.
Mah, Carole, et al. "Some Problems of TEI Markup and Early Printed Books", Computers and the Humanities 31:1 (1996).

WWP Research on Women's Writing

Articles on women's writing and history by present and past members of the WWP.

Barash, Carol. English Women's Poetry 1649-1714: Politics, Community and Linguistic Authority. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Barash, Carol. Poems of Aphra Behn and Anne Finch, for James Fitzmaurice, Josephine Roberts, Eugene Cunnar, Nancy Gutierrez, and Carol Barash, eds., Major Women Writers of 17th-Century England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Caldwell, Patricia, ed. Fall River: An Authentic Narrative, by Catharine Williams. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Caldwell, Patricia. "In 'Happy America': Discovering Catharine Williams's Fall River for the Women Writers Project." South Central Review:The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 79-98.
Curran, Stuart. "Charlotte Smith and British Romanticism." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 66-78.
Curran, Stuart, ed. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Ezell, Margaret. The Patriarch's Wife: Literary evidence and the history of the family. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Ezell, Margaret, ed. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hageman, Elizabeth H. "The 'False Printed' Broadside of Katherine Philips's 'To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival'." The Library 17(1995):321-26.
Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. "New Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, 'the Matchless Orinda'". English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 4(1994):174-216.
Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. "'More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd': Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, 'the Matchless Orinda." English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 5(1995):127-69.
Hageman, Elizabeth H. and Andrea Sununu. The Poems, Plays, and Letters of Katherine Philips. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Steen, Sara Jayne. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Steen, Sara Jayne. "Manuscript Matters: Reading the Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:2 (Summer, 1994), 24-38.
Woods, Susanne. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1611). Edited with introduction and notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Woods, Susanne. "Shifting Centers and Self Assertions: The Study of Early Modern Women," in Shakespeare Studies 25 (1997), 67-75.
Woods, Susanne. "Born to Write: Vocation and Authority in Aemilia Lanyer," in Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon, ed. Marshall Grossman (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1998).
Woods, Susanne. "Anne Locke and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking," in The New Seventeenth Century: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Amy Boesky and Mary Crane (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998).
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet, Study of Aemilia Lanyer, Jacobean poet, in relation to Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Donne. Oxford University Press, 1998 or early 1999 (in press).

WWP Research on Text Encoding

Articles on text encoding and some related topics by present and past members of the WWP

Bauman, Sydney. "Tables of Contents, TEI-Style." Text Technology: Journal of Computer Text Processing. Autumn 1995:235-247.
Bauman, Sydney. "Keying Names: The WWP Approach." WWP Newsletter 3:1(1997).
Caton, Paul. "Putting Renaissance Women Online," New Models and Opportunities, ICCC/IFIP Working Conference on Electronic Publishing '97, April 1997.
Caton, Paul. "Renaissance Women Online." WWP Newsletter 4:1 (1998).
Flanders, Julia. "Trusting the Electronic Edition", Computers and the Humanities 31:4 (1997/1998).
Flanders, Julia. "The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text", in Sutherland, ed., Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford, 1997).
Flanders, Julia. "Editorial Methodology and the Electronic Text", part of a conference session entitled Electronic Texts and Textuality presented at NASSR, Boston, 1996.
Flanders, Julia, et al., "Nouns Proper and Improper: Applying the TEI to the classification of proper nouns", Computers and the Humanities 31:4(1997/1998).
Flanders, Julia. "Scholarly Habits and Digital Resources: Observations from a User Survey", revised version of a paper presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, London, 1998.
Mah, Carole, et al., "Some Problems of TEI Markup and Early Printed Books", Computers and the Humanities 31:1 (1996).
Mah, Carole, and Julia Flanders. "Scholarly Needs, Encoding Challenges: Correction, Regularization, and Expansion". WWP Newsletter 2:2 (1996).
Lavagnino, John. "Electronic Editions and the Needs of Readers", in Critical Survey 9:1 (1997), 70-77; and in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts II: Papers of The Renaissance English Text Society, 1992-1996 (Tempe, AZ: MRTS for RETS, 1998).
Lavagnino, John. "The Show Must Go On: Problems of Tagging Performance Texts", in Computers and the Humanities 29, 113-121.
Lavagnino, John. "Completeness and Adequacy in Text Encoding", in The Literary Text in the Digital Age, ed. Richard Finneran, University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Lavagnino, John, and Jacque Russom. "Senses of Sexual in the Women Writers Project Textbase". WWP Newsletter 2:3 (1996)
Renear, Allen, et al., "Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies" in Research in Humanities Computing, ed. N. Ide, Oxford, 1995
Renear, Allen. "Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding, The Monist, 80:3 July 1997.
Renear, Allen. "Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality," in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, Kathryn Sutherland, ed. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Renear, Allen, et al., "Author's Response to Three Comments on 'What is Text, Really?'" Journal of Computer Documentation, 1997.