Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field

Katherine Bode

doi:10.7135/UPO9780857284563

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.

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Reading by Numbers

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Tables and Figures
pp ix-x

Introduction A New History of the Australian Novel
pp 1-6

Chapter 1 - Literary Studies in the Digital Age
pp 7-26

Chapter 2 - Beyond the Book: Publishing in the Nineteenth Century
pp 27-56

Chapter 3 - Nostalgia and the Novel: Looking Back, Looking Forward
pp 57-104

Chapter 4 - Recovering Gender: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
pp 105-130

Chapter 5 - The ‘Rise’ of the Woman Novelist: Popular and Literary Trends
pp 131-168

Conclusion Literary Studies in the Digital Future
pp 169-174

Notes
pp 175-214

Bibliography
pp 215-236

Index
pp 237-245

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