Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field / Katherine Bode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bode, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Anthem Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

†̃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' â€" an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope â€" 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 cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Literary Studies in the Digital Age 7

I Quantitative Method and its Critics 8

II Critical Quantification: Book History and die Digital Humanities 13

Chapter 2 Beyond the Book: Publishing in the Nineteenth Century 27

I Book Publishing: 1830s to 1850s 30

II Serial Publishing 34

III The Cycle of Serial and Book Publishing 40

IV Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s 43

V Book Publishing: 1890s 47

Chapter 3 Nostalgia and the Novel: Looking Back, Looking Forward 57

I British Domination? 1940s to 1960s 62

II The Golden Age? 1970s to 1980s 70

III Multinational Domination? 1990s to 2000s 79

IV The End of Local Publishing? 1990s to 2000s 88

Chapter 4 Recovering Gender: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century 105

I Feminist Literary Criticism and the Nineteenth Century 107

II Serial Publishing 113

III Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s 120

IV Gender and the 1890s 124

Chapter 5 The 'Rise' of the Woman Novelist: Popular and Literary Trends 131

I Male Domination? 1940s to 1960s 135

II Female Liberation? 1970s to 1980s 143

III Beyond Gender? 1990s to 2000s 153.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102559

ISBN:

9780857284549

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access