Distant readings : topologies of German culture in the long nineteenth century /

"Explores the concept of "distant reading" and its application to the analysis of nineteenth-century German literature and culture, drawing on a range of approaches from the emerging digital humanities field."--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Erlin, Matt (Editor), Tatlock, Lynne, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Distant Reading" and the historiography of Nineteenth-Century German literature / Matt Erlin and Lynne Tatlock
  • Quantification. Burrow's Delta and its use in German literary history / Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer
  • The location of literary history : topic modeling, network analysis, and the German novel, 1731-1864 / Matt Erlin
  • How to read 22,198 journal articles : studying the history of German Studies with topic models / Allen Beye Riddell
  • Serial individuality : Eighteenth-Century case study collections and Nineteenth-Century archival fiction / Nicolas Pethes
  • The case for close reading after the descriptive turn / Todd Kontje
  • Circulation. The Werther effect I : Goethe, objecthood, and the handling of knowledge / Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt
  • Rethinking non-fiction : distant reading the Nineteenth-Century science-literature divide / Peter M. McIsaac
  • Distant reception : bringing German books to America / Kirsten Belgum
  • The one and the many : The Old Mam'selle's Secret and the American traffic in German fiction (1868-1917) / Lynne Tatlock
  • Contextualization. The vocations of the novel : distant-reading occupational change in Nineteenth-Century German literature / Tobias Boes
  • Big data, pattern recognition, and literary studies: N-Gramming the railway in Nineteenth-Century German fiction / Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael
  • "Detoured Reading" : understanding literature through the eyes of its contemporaries (a case study on anti-Semitism in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben) / Katja Mellmann
  • Can computers read? / Lutz Koepnick.