The Last Rites of the Humanities

Eugenio Lucas y Velasquez
Madrid, 1817 - 1870
L'extreme-onction v. 1855-56

The Death of the Monograph (vs. The Crisis of Audience)

The Death of Solitude in Graduate Study (vs. Collaborative Humanities Research)

The Death of the Single-Author Study (vs. Thematic Research Collections)

The Death of Disciplines (vs. Space for Interdisciplinary Research)

The Death of Classrooms and Lectures (vs. the Rise of Interactive Education)

The Death of Contemplation (vs. The End of the Internet)

Some examples:

• The William Blake Archive
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive
• NINES
• The Bestsellers Database
• The Ivanhoe Game
• Electronic Textual Editing