"Inventing the Map" in the Digital Humanities: a Young Lady's Primer
"Inventing the Map" in the Digital Humanities: a Young Lady's Primer
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数字人文中的“发明地图”：一位年轻女士的入门书
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2010
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B. Nowviskie
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1823年，在佛蒙特州西部的一所小学校里，一位富商的女儿、14岁的弗朗西斯·奥尔索普·亨肖（Frances Alsop Henshaw）创作了一件非凡的制图和文字艺术品。亨肖的《明德女子学院书法》（Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy）是一本薄薄的书，除了预期的练习书的固定文本外，还包含一系列手绘的、我们十九个美国的精美彩色地图，每一幅都配上一段从新美利坚共和国女学生可用的地理书中选出的几何构造和修饰的散文。它是一个法典形式的采样器，它构成了一套相互关联的地理空间和文本图形学的教学和个人练习，或通过创建图像和文本作为图像的主观知识生产。本文从Henshaw可爱而看似天真的结构出发，分析了人文科学中地理空间学术的现状--特别是与文学和文本批评等领域有关的空间分析和实践，在这些领域，地理特异性可能不如解释的可能性重要。对Henshaw练习的过程和产品的关注对现代学者来说可能是富有成果的，努力将地理空间技术整合到解释性人文学科中，因为地理学家和文学历史学家证明，在美利坚共和国早期，这些练习本身就是为了在越来越有文化的民众中创造意义。全尺寸图+ Zoomify（pdf下载--右键点击或控制点击保存）
In 1823, at a small school in western Vermont, Frances Alsop Henshaw, the 14-year-old daughter of a prosperous merchant, produced a remarkable cartographic and textual artifact. Henshaw’s “Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy” is a slim volume containing – in addition to the expected, set copy-texts of a practice-book – a series of hand-drawn, delicately-colored maps of our nineteen United States, each one paired with a geometrically-constructed and embellished prose passage selected from the geography books available to a schoolgirl in the new American republic. A sampler in codex form, it constitutes a set of interrelated pedagogical and personal exercises in geospatial and textual graphesis, or subjective knowledge-production through the creation of images and texts-as-image. This essay builds outward from Henshaw’s lovely and deceptively naive constructions to an analysis of the present state of geospatial scholarship in the humanities – particularly spatial analysis and practice as it relates to fields like literary and textual criticism, where geographic specificity may prove less important than interpretive possibility. Attention to the processes and products of Henshaw’s exercises can be as fruitful for modern scholars, grappling with the integration of geospatial technologies into the interpretive humanities, as geographers and literary historians demonstrate the exercises themselves to have been for meaning-making among an increasingly literate populace in the early years of the American republic. Full-size figures + Zoomify ( pdf for download -- right click or control click to save)