Browsing English (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Tonra, Justin"
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Book history and digital humanities in the long eighteenth century
Tonra, Justin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)This article examines the current state of research at the intersections of book history and digital humanities within the field of eighteenth-century studies. It addresses the popular and intellectual origins of the nexus ... -
English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: a Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (University of Notre Dame, 2015)Fraught relations between authors and critics are a commonplace of literary history. The particular case that we discuss in this article, a negative review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Christabel (1816), has an additional ... -
Masks of Refinement: Pseudonym, Paratext, and Authorship in the Early Poetry of Thomas Moore
Tonra, Justin (Taylor and Francis, 2014-08-05)Thomas Moore adopted the pseudonymous persona of Thomas Little in order to place his early amorous poetry within distinct literary, historical, and generic contexts. He was motivated by a desire to provoke a favorable ... -
A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian
Yose, Joseph; Kenna, Ralph; Mac Carron, Pádraig; Platini, Thierry; Tonra, Justin (WorldScientific Open Access, 2016-10-21)In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources. The poems, which purported to have been composed by a ... -
Pagan angels and a moral law: Byron and Moore's blasphemous publications
Tonra, Justin (Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-01)Lord Byron's Cain and Thomas Moore's The Loves of the Angels are linked by critical accusations of blasphemy which threatened their legal and commercial integrity. Comparing the critical and legal reception of the two works ... -
Social media poetics: The technological forms of alt lit poetry
Tonra, Justin (John Hopkins University Press, 2022-09)Poets on Twitter often use the medium for the purposes of publication and promotion. However, writers from the Alt Lit movement have used Twitter and other social media platforms for more creative purposes. Here, I examine ... -
Transcription maximized; expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
Causer, Tim; Tonra, Justin; Wallace, Valerie (Oxford University Press, 2012-03-28)This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is ...