Explore specific collections under PhiloLogic:
French Revolutionary Pamphlets : 25,935 pamphlets from the French Revolutionary period
Archives Parlementaires : Parliamentary debates during the first years of the French Revolution (1789-1792)
Revolutionary Laws : Laws enacted during the French Revolution
18th Century French Literature : Literary and Philosophical works from the French 18th century
Goldsmith-Kress 18th Century : Political Economy works from the French 18th century
Journaux de Marat : Marat's newspapers which include L'Ami du peuple and Le Journal de la République française
French ECCO : Literary and Philosophical works from the French 18th century published in the UK
What is the Intertextual Hub?

The Intertextual Hub is an experimental digital humanities reading environment that aims to situate specific documents in their broader context of intertextual relations, whether in the form of direct or indirect borrowings, shared topics with other texts or parts of texts, or other kinds of lexical similarity. Intuitively, we believe that the conceptual relationships discovered by text mining algorithms among texts in large, heterogeneous collections can fruitfully inform and guide traditional close-reading approaches. More fundamentally, our contention is that scholarly reading in the digital age—and the true usefulness of computational analysis of texts—should be foregrounded on the discovery and navigation of intertextual relationships. The model we have developed here allows users to navigate between individual and larger groups of texts that are related through shared themes, ideas, and passages. What the Intertextual Hub offers, then, along with the scalable reading tools, is an approach to federating collections that can bypass the various competing problems of quality (OCR vs. curated) and access (pay vs. public) inherent in digital collections today, and still yield meaningful results.

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