The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

This book will attract several kinds of reader: dyed-in-the-wool DHers, the DH-curious, and naysayers. I suspect each will find something to satisfy whatever urge brought them here to begin with, and each will take umbrage with some part or another. A good handbook should provide ready-made reference materials, a set of intuitive treatments of a consistent topic. Regardless of how readers of this book view the digital humanities, my hope is that the provocations contained within facilitate some further progress, however small, towards Potter’s “new kind” of humanities—a humanities in which there is no tension between misplaced senses of old and new, but simply a
desire to produce and sustain cultural knowledge using all the capacities of both the human and the machine.