This project represents the work of students and faculty at the Greensburg and Oakland campuses of the University of Pittsburgh. Using TEI conformant XML markup, we are investigating the voyage narratives of the first European expeditions to chart the Pacific and to encounter Polynesian cultures, and we are studying how English poetry and print media responded to the narratives of first contact. We are especially interested in charting "distortion effects" as English writers redacted the language describing Pacific cultural encounters. We are also working to chart how geospatial coordinates shifted during these voyages as methods for calculating longitude changed and Cook's new maps altered people's vision of the globe. Description of Work in Progress (March 9, 2013)
Guidelines for Coding Places, People, Mythical Entities, Referencing Strings, and More (March 15, 2013)
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18th-century Accounts of Pacific Voyages
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Poems:Gerald Fitzgerald "The Injured Islanders" (1779)
Anna Seward, "Elegy on Captain Cook" (1780 vs. 1810 parallel text editions)
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Artifacts, Maps, and Image Gallery | |||