Reading by Numbers
Recalibrating the Literary Field
Author(s)
Bode, Katherine
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
102559Language
EnglishAbstract
‘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 cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.
Keywords
LiteratureISBN
9780857284549OCN
817809963Publisher
Anthem PressPublisher website
https://www.anthempress.com/Publication date and place
2012-07-01Classification
Literary theory