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Big Data And The Search For Balanced Insight In The Digital Humanities: Macroscopic And Microscopic Reading Of Citation Strategies In The Encyclopédie Of Diderot (And Jaucourt), 1751-1772, Scott R. St. Louis

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This peer-reviewed article was originally published in Digital Literary Studies, a scholarly journal hosted by Pennsylvania State University Libraries. An earlier version of the article was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles, California on March 19, 2015. It was made possible by a generous full-time Student Summer Scholars research grant, provided by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship at Grand Valley State University.

Consisting of seventeen folio volumes and eleven volumes of engraved illustrations - over seventy-four thousand articles and twenty-one million words - the Encyclopédie (1751-1772) remains a …