Reading by Numbers Recalibrating the Literary Field

Name: Reading by Numbers Recalibrating the Literary Field
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ISBN: 9780857284549

ISBN-10: 0857284541

ISBN-13: 9780857284549

Edition: 2012

Authors: Katherine Bode

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‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from ‘AustLit’ – an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope – this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication date: 7/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of Tables and Figures


Introduction A New History of the Australian Novel



Literary Studies in the Digital Age



Quantitative Method and its Critics



Critical Quantification: Book History and die Digital Humanities



Beyond the Book: Publishing in the Nineteenth Century



Book Publishing: 1830s to 1850s



Serial Publishing



The Cycle of Serial and Book Publishing



Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s



Book Publishing: 1890s



Nostalgia and the Novel: Looking Back, Looking Forward



British Domination? 1940s to 1960s



The Golden Age? 1970s to 1980s



Multinational Domination? 1990s to 2000s



The End of Local Publishing? 1990s to 2000s



Recovering Gender: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century



Feminist Literary Criticism and the Nineteenth Century



Serial Publishing



Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s



Gender and the 1890s



The 'Rise' of the Woman Novelist: Popular and Literary Trends



Male Domination? 1940s to 1960s



Female Liberation? 1970s to 1980s



Beyond Gender? 1990s to 2000s


Conclusion Literary Studies in the Digital Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index