Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters

Abstract

This project will focus on a body of 53,000 18th-century letters, and analyze the degree to which the effects of the Enlightenment can be observed in the letters of people of various occupations. 

Principal Investigators

Dan Edelstein, Stanford University, US, NEH
Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma, US, NSF
Robert McNamee, University of Oxford, UK, JISC