Mediate: Identifying the real bestsellers of the 18th century

Dominique Daniel Discussion

EMOB [Early Modern Online Bibliography] readers may be interested in a new digital humanities project, Mediate, based at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Funded by the European Research Council, Mediate is headed by Professor Alicia C. Montoya. Through the use of a robustly designed database of library auction catalogs, this multi-component project seeks to develop a new avenue for Enlightenment studies. While prior lenses for studying the Enlightenment have focused on either the canonical, history-of-ideas texts or the forbidden, underground works of the time, Mediate aims to study the middlebrow bestsellers and their overlooked role in shaping the Enlightenment.

Source: Eleanor Shevlin, "Mediate: Identifying the real bestsellers of the 18th century," Early Modern Online Bibliography, https://earlymodernonlinebib.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/mediate-identifying-the-real-bestsellers-of-the-18th-century/