Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary FieldReading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field proposes and demonstrates a new digital approach to literary history. Drawing on bibliographical information an the Australian novel in the AustLit database, the book addresses debates and issues in literary studies through a method that combines book history's pragmatic approach to literary data with the digital humanities' idea of computer modelling as an experimental and iterative practice. As well as showcasing this method, the case studies in Reading by Numbers provide a revised history of the Australian novel, focusing on the nineteenth century and the decades since the end of the Second World War, and engaging with a range of themes including literary and cultural value, authorship, gender, genre, and the transnational circulation of fiction. The book's findings challenge established arguments in Australian literary studies, book history, feminism and gender studies, while presenting innovative ways of understanding literature, publishing, authorship and reading, and the relationships between them. More broadly, by demonstrating critical ways in which the growing number of digital archives in the humanities can be mined, modelled and visualised, Reading by Numbers offers new directions and scope for digital humanities research. Book jacket. |
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Reading by Numbers_01_Intro_p001006 | 1 |
Reading by Numbers_02_Chap 01_p007026 | 7 |
Reading by Numbers_03_Chap 02_p027056 | 27 |
Reading by Numbers_04_Chap 03_p057104 | 57 |
Reading by Numbers_05_Chap 04_p105130 | 105 |
Reading by Numbers_06_Chap 05_p131168 | 131 |
Reading by Numbers_07_Conclu_p169174 | 169 |
Reading by Numbers_08_Notes_p175214 | 175 |
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