Erratum

Erratum for Abigail Williams and Jennifer Batt, "Introduction," Eighteenth-Century Life 41, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–6.

On page 1 of the article, the first five lines of text should read:

Long before the current vogue for big data and distant reading led literary scholars to examine ever larger corpora of texts, Roger Lonsdale argued in his groundbreaking New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1984) that our understanding of "the landscape of eighteenth-century poetry" was limited because we hadn't read enough of what was published in the period:

This passage has been corrected in the online version of the article.