{"id":6844,"date":"2018-05-02T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:40:57","slug":"john-stuart-mill-marginalia-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6844","title":{"rendered":"John Stuart Mill marginalia project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Project to digitise and publish his marginalia online will allow scholars to see his cutting remarks on Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian has a story on an interesting digital humanities project,\u00a0JS Mill scribbles reveal he was far from a chilly Victorian intellectual<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The project, Mill Marginalia Online, is digitizing an estimated 40,000 comments, doodles, and other marks that John Stuart Mill wrote in his collection of 1,700 books, now at\u00a0Somerville College, Oxford. His collection was donated to Somerville 30 years after his death in 1905 because the women of the college weren’t allowed to access the Oxford libraries at the time.<\/p>\n

His comments are not just scholarly notes. For example, above is an image of the title page of Emerson’s Essays<\/a> that Mill added text to in order to mock it. The new title page with Mill’s penciled in elaboration and the original reads,<\/p>\n

Philosophy Bourgeois,
\nbeing
\nSentimental Essays: in the art of
\nIntimately blending
\nSense and Nonsense:
\nby
\nR. W. Emerson,
\nof Concord, Massachusetts.
\nA clever + well organised youth brought up
\nin the old traditions.
\nMotto
\nIn thought “all’s fish that comes to net.”
\nWith Fog Preface
\nBy Thomas Carlyle.
\n“Patent Divine-light Self-acting Foggometer”
\nTo the Court of
\nHer mAJESTy Queen Vic.<\/p>\n

A JEST indeed. The Daily Nous has an article on this with the title,\u00a0Mill\u2019s Myriad Marginalia: Mundane, Mysterious, Mocking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All this from Humanist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Project to digitise and publish his marginalia online will allow scholars to see his cutting remarks on Ralph Waldo Emerson The Guardian has a story on an interesting digital humanities project,\u00a0JS Mill scribbles reveal he was far from a chilly Victorian intellectual.\u00a0The project, Mill Marginalia Online, is digitizing an estimated 40,000 comments, doodles, and other … Continue reading John Stuart Mill marginalia project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-humanities-computing","category-hypertext-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}