ERC Starting Grant · 2024
PROMPRINT will uncover and analyze the rejects of legal deposit: the printed texts excluded from the ostensibly universal archive promised by copyright libraries. Legal deposit works to preserve every text published in a specific group of libraries. While this principle is egalitarian, the cultural promiscuity of print has often troubled the prestigious deposit libraries, as deposit brings such historically controversial forms as novels, children’s books, almanacs, and pamphlets into elite collections. The project asks: (1) Which textual forms and genres do deposit libraries reject? How and why does this change over time? (2) How can digital tools and quantitative analyses help to map…
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