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Working on Women Writers In History :. Suzan van Dijk. eHumanities group. 10 May 2012. International network for large-scale research on women’s presence in the European literary field . (3-6) Empirical evidence for the contemporary reception of their works. Large-scale sources
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Working on Women Writers In History: Suzan van Dijk eHumanities group 10 May 2012
International network for large-scale research on women’s presence in the European literary field. (3-6) • Empirical evidence for the contemporary reception of their works. • Large-scale sources • Preparing a new version of the database WomenWriters : • Interconnectivity with other online projects • The possibility of making the texts comparable • A new data model corresponding to a different perspective on literary communication. • Preparing data for the new version: • checking and completing data, • standardizing certain parts of the information, in order to make them appropriate for faceted search and visualisation. • Work program ?
Present data model: A – W – R • AUTHOR WORK RECEIVER(S) • Françoise Lettres several • de > d’une < critics in • Graffigny Péruvienne the press • (1747, 1751)
Future data model: P – W – P – W – P etc • Richardson, Pamela (1741) • >> • Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken, De Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) • >> • Isabelle de Charrière, Lettres neuchâ- teloises (1784) • >> • Swiss critic, shocked (1784): • « Etait-ce à une jeune fille, a-t-on dit, à parler à un jeune homme, qu'elle n'a vu que deux ou trois fois, d'une ouvrière qui se dit grosse de lui? où sont les bienséances? »