Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris. Director @joshua_kotin / tech @suttonkoeser / #shakespeareandcoproject
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Sylvia Beach published 'Ulysses' by James Joyce in 1922
WATCH: ‘Self Portrait’ broadcast in 1962 @bloomsdayfest @JamesJoyceCentr @YesDerry2024 #BloomsdayFestival
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James Joyce borrowed Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle from Shakespeare and Company OTD in 1931. First published in 1751 and revised in 1758, it’s a picaresque novel that has been described as a satire on human cruelty, stupidity and greed.
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I had the privilege of watching this article take shape. Worth a read.
I also had fun inventing this chart to convey not only the difference in borrowing by men and women but relative percentages/popularity. Inspired by butterfly/tornado charts.
Who were the authors that most divided male and female readers at Shakespeare and Company?
Does the answer reveal an alternative canon of modernist literature?
To find out, read "A Counterfactual Canon" @CulturalAnalyt & @MModernity
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Read Fedor Karmanov and @joshua_kotin on the relationship between gender and taste at the Shakespeare and Company lending library on Print Plus and at @CulturalAnalyt!
How would modernist studies change if we began talking about a "von Arnim Era"?
Read "A Counterfactual Canon" now at @MModernity & @CulturalAnalyt
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🗞️🎉Have you seen the new article cluster on the @princeton CDH-sponsored @ShakesCoProject, edited by @joshua_kotin (English) & CDH Lead RSE @suttonkoeser?! Check out: bit.ly/ShakesCoProjectCluste… or read the essays in @CulturalAnalyt or @MModernity (they're copublished!)
ALT Interactive figures from cluster articles. Clockwise from top left: network graph of Woolf borrowers and purchasers (Southworth et al.); Reed Peggram‘s addresses in Paris (Whitmire); raincloud plot of Hemingway‘s borrowing (Koeser and LeBlanc); gendered reading differences (Karmanov and Kotin); titles by popularity in Shakespeare and Company and Goodreads (Antoniak et al.)
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OTD in 1928 a copy of Parenthood: Design or Accident arrived at Shakespeare and Company, as related by @matthewjchamber in ‘Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in the English-Language Book Trade of Interwar Paris’
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What do you do when your data has gaps & unknowns?
In “Missing Data, Speculative Reading” @Zoe_LeBlanc and I delve into @ShakesCoProject datasets to estimate
& speculatively fill in gaps.
co-pub by @MModernity @CulturalAnalyt
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Read Nissa's article, "Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks," in which she cleverly re-narrativizes the relationship between Shakespeare and Company and the American Library in Paris. Currently live on our site and at @CulturalAnalyt!
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Missing data presents numerous challenges. In the real-world, you will encounter this problem. Here's a wonderful article by @suttonkoeser and @Zoe_LeBlanc that goes through the various types of missing data, their challenges, and the various methods for handling them.
modernismmodernity.org/forum…
Refenced in the article is another great work for handling missing data by @Mike_Kestemont et al “Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture" which came out a couple years ago.
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Want to see a great example of how to work with data for digital humanities projects? Check out this amazing work by some of the best researchers in the digital/computational humanities! It also connects to the wonderful DH project on Shakespeare and Co at @PrincetonCDH . The use of network analysis is particularly intriguing!
I'm super proud of this new essay that I got to work on with my Cornell lab crew!
We compare the reading habits of early 1900s Shakespeare & Co members and contemporary Goodreads users.
Who stayed popular? Who faded into obscurity?
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I'm super proud of this new essay that I got to work on with my Cornell lab crew!
We compare the reading habits of early 1900s Shakespeare & Co members and contemporary Goodreads users.
Who stayed popular? Who faded into obscurity?
modernismmodernity.org/forum…
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This cluster, published jointly with @CulturalAnalyt, enlivens the datasets produced by @ShakesCoProject and illuminates the enduring relevance of reading practises and literary communities.
Our latest cluster, edited by @joshua_kotin and
@suttonkoeser, takes an incisive look at Sylvia Beach's archives to tell new stories about Shakespeare and Company, ones that resituate and deepen our understanding of its centrality and impact: modernismmodernity.org/forum…
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Our latest cluster, edited by @joshua_kotin and
@suttonkoeser, takes an incisive look at Sylvia Beach's archives to tell new stories about Shakespeare and Company, ones that resituate and deepen our understanding of its centrality and impact: modernismmodernity.org/forum…
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A Sorbonne Nouvelle @crewparis3 @Sorbonne_Nvelle and U of Poznan conference on « Backstage Sociability in the Book and Art Market », Nov 2024 in Paris. CFP May 31st. Keynotes: Kate Heard @RCT & Joshua Kotin @ShakesCoProject. With @MiyamotoBen
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Ulysses publisher Sylvia Beach was born OTD in 1887
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Another fun part of this paper was comparing the top 100 most borrowed S&C books to the US bestseller list from the 1920s. Almost none of the bestsellers are still read (Age of Innocence and All Quiet…) but about 1/4 of the S&C most popular you would recognize.
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Nathalie Sarraute described Ulysses as "an essential part of her literary formation." She was a member of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company lending library and her records and those of other members can be accessed via the @ShakesCoProject website.
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Marianne Rose May's Shakespeare & Co record shows a devotion to Irish writer Freeman Wills Crofts (creator of Inspector French) & Canadian native turned journalist, playwright, writer & Martinsville, NJ resident Harvey J O'Higgins (Detective Duff Unravels It). @MyCentralJersey
In 1914, Marianne Rose May (1880–1943) married leather manufacturer René Antoine & they adopted the surname Antoine-May. She was a member of Shakespeare & Co for much of the 1930s & a voracious reader of mysteries.
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Borrowed OTD in 1933. Shakespeare and Company’s overdue notice depicted the Bard tearing his hair out.
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I got my @ShakesCoAt100 bot working again. Updated for twitter v2 API, now properly marked as a bot. 🤖
Only missed a day or so of posting, not too bad...
Thanks to the loyal followers who show their appreciation by regularly liking tweets. 💙