Paratext and Metadata: the Interfaces of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online

by Stephen Gregg (Bath Spa University) Gérard Genette’s theory of the paratext is usually applied to some form of manuscript or printed material, but why not digital material?[1] In this post I want to explore how we might think about paratextuality in the relation to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). Briefly, ECCO is an online database...