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I have selected three quotes from the Fitzgerald article that I felt related to the Wulf article on commonplace books in the Revolutionary era.

“Digital humanities has gained prominence in the last couple of years, in part because of the visibility given the field by the use of social media, particularly Twitter”

Here, Fitzgerald describes the importance of Twitter in spreading the ideas of digital humanities. This reminded me of the importance of the salon in informal literary culture during the Revolutionary era, as an individual was essentially opening up an intimate area of his or her life (personal opinions in the Twitter example, the home in the salon example) in order to further some agenda.

“There has long been a separation, for instance, between studio artists and art historians or between literary scholars and creative writers”

This statement reminded me of the distinction between informal, salon literary culture and the formal, published literary culture described in the Wulf article.

“The particular contribution of the digital humanities, however, lies in its exploration of the difference that the digital can make to the kinds of work that we do as well as to the ways that we communicate with one another.”

This definition of digital made me question the thoughts that I had originally had on the Wulf article. Initially, the salon literary culture seemed purely non-digital in that handwritten manuscripts were passed along instead of printed works. However, if we use the definition quoted above, it seems that the salon literary culture is digital in that it relies heavily on human interaction and direct communication to achieve success.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “The Humanities, Done Digitally,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, last modified 2012, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/30

Karin Wulf, “Introduction: Documenting Culture and Connection in the Revolutionary Era,” in Milcah Martha Moore’s Book, ed Karin Wulf et al (Penn State Press, 2010)