How to Navigate This Dissertation
Before you being your journey through the material, here is a quick tour of the website's key features.
The Path
The blue buttons at the bottom of each page will guide you through the website’s content. This “path” offers a reading experience that mimics the progression of a dissertation in document form. Clicking the blue button at the bottom of the page will take you to the next section in the sequence. The grey buttons perform a similar function, but they jump to the next chapter.The Tool Bar
The toolbar at the top of the page contains a drop down menu with an outline of the dissertation’s content. To view the table of contents, press the button that looks like a bullet point list. If you’re looking for a specific page, click the magnifying glass, type the title of the page that you're looking for, and press enter. A window will appear with the results. To search the content of these pages, click “all fields & metadata” in the search pop up window.Citations
Citations of primary sources and scholarship appear as footnotes, Scalar notes, and hyperlinks.Footnotes contain bibliographic information, brief summaries of scholarly sources, and short annotations. To make a footnote appear, click on the blue number at the end of this sentence.[1] To make it disappear, click anywhere on the screen. Footnotes also appear at the bottom of the page that they annotate.
Scalar notes provide additional visual material to accompany the text. To see one of Carpenter and Westley’s magic lantern slides, click the grey note. Scalar notes also contain longer annotations that are stored as separate pages, like this note on the serendipitous preservation of a letter.
Hyperlinks, which appear as blue text, connect to other pages in this website or on external sites. Clicking on the blue text will take you to these pages. To retrace your steps, click the “back” button on your browser. For external sites, you can also click “Return to Shining Lights” on the left hand side of the header at the top of the page.
Click the blue button at the bottom of the page to go to the introduction.
[1] This is a sample footnote.
