Originally published on eve.gd on 4 June 2019, last updated 6 September 2026.
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Today marks the publication of my latest book, Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, at Stanford University Press. If you want to get a copy at a really reasonable price, order from Combined Academic, using the code “CSS19CRWC” for 30% off (bringing it down to £14.69). If you can’t afford this, earlier versions of several chapters of the work have already appeared in journals and are openly accessible: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3. I have a particular fondness for this book as it is the first that I wrote from scratch after my stroke in 2019.
Combined Academic
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
What’s next? Hmm, well, as my Books page makes abundantly clear, I have a number of projects in various stages of completion. The first is the edited collection on which I am working for The MIT Press on pasts, presents, and futures of scholarly communications. This is a hefty book and one that has taken a long time to coordinate and bring together. I’m not sure I want to do another edited book any time soon – the administrative overhead is massive – but I am also really pleased with how this is panning out. This book will be open access. I hope that this will be off to the publisher this month, health permitting.
After that, I have the write-up of our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded “Reading Peer Review” project to finish. This has spiralled well beyond the article length by some margin already and I’m pleased to say that we have signed a contract for a book version of the work with Cambridge University Press. The work will be open access and will be delivered by March 2020 for publication in 2021, I hope.
After that, I have a book under contract at Oxford University Press called “The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies”. This is in the “literary agenda” series, so I am in good company. This is a primer volume on the ways in which digital methods are being used in our disciplinary space, but it also features new bits of my own research as exemplars of how these can work.
The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies
Finally, there are three further, perhaps more “secret”, long-term books that I am working on that I will say more about once I feel more secure about their structural frameworks.
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1. Combined Academic: Close Reading with Computers order page <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/close-reading-with-computers>
2. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘“You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas’, Open Library of Humanities, Open Library of the Humanities, 10 August 2016 <https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.82>
3. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas’, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, Open Library of the Humanities, 1 October 2018 <https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.46>
4. Eve, Martin Paul, Cameron Neylon, Daniel O'Donnell, Samuel Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and Shahina Parvin, Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia, 3 January 2021 <https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/27709/>
5. Eve, Martin Paul, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, 10 February 2022 <https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/26645/>
6. Eve, Close Reading with Computers chapter 2, Birkbeck <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/37553>
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/close-reading-with-computers
https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.82
https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.46
https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/27709/
https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/26645/
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/document/37553