The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-032-33125-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the concepts and theories at the intersection of Canadian literary studies and digital humanities (DH). Equal parts theoretical and practical, it focuses on debates that overlap the two domains. This book historicizes the connections between the two by surveying the history of DH in Canada, the tradition of Canadian writers engaging with technology, and DH analyses of Canadian literature. It also situates both CanLit and DH with respect to contemporary concerns about alterity, and it demonstrates how digital technologies allow writers and scholars to intervene in them.
This book complements its theoretical discussions with a practical introduction to DH methods. Using Canadian literary texts and examples from projects at the intersection of CanLit and DH, it introduces key DH approaches to novice readers. Topics covered include data collection, data management, and textual analysis, as well as essential DH tools and the Python programming language. A concluding case study guides readers interested in applying the ideas presented throughout.
This book complements its theoretical discussions with a practical introduction to DH methods. Using Canadian literary texts and examples from projects at the intersection of CanLit and DH, it introduces key DH approaches to novice readers. Topics covered include data collection, data management, and textual analysis, as well as essential DH tools and the Python programming language. A concluding case study guides readers interested in applying the ideas presented throughout.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen, 9 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
505 gr
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978-1-032-33125-6 (9781032331256)
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Persons
Paul Barrett is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing and the Culture and Technology Studies program at the University of Guelph.
Sarah Roger is the project manager for the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.
Sarah Roger is the project manager for the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.
Content
Introduction: Beyond the boundaries: digital humanities and Canadian literature
Boundaries and borderlines
Canada in DH, DH in Canada
Quickstart and contexts
Works cited
Part I
1. What is English Canadian literature?
Histories of digital humanities and Canadian literature
The shape of Canadian literary criticism
New critical formations
Further reading
Works cited
2. What Are digital humanities?
What of the humanities?
A provisional, historical, collaborative definition
Methodological
Theoretical
Methodological + theoretical
Further reading
Works Cited
Part II
3. Early interventions: the history of humanities computing and Canadian literature
Early Canadian humanities computing
Emerging organization
Burgeoning humanities computing community
Towards a digital humanities
Artmob
The Orlando Project
Implementing New Knowledge Environments
A proliferation of projects
Further reading
Works cited
4. National literatures, infrastructural developments: emerging concepts of Canadian literature and digital humanities
Humanism and the nation
Other histories
Institutional support for digital humanities
New institutional initiatives
Further reading
Works cited
5. Digital humanities spaces: archives, collaboratories, laboratories, and centres
Digital archives
CanLit and the digital archive
Collaboratories
Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture
Editing Modernism in Canada
SpokenWeb
DH laboratories and centres
Further reading
Works cited
Part III
6. Canadian literary criticism and the digital sphere
Sea change of the digital
Canadian critical interventions
Early Canadian literatury-digital scholarship
The Hypertext Pratt
The Digital Page
Contemporary Canadian literary-digital projects
AMM Bibliography
Distant Reading Mennonite Writing
Fred Wah Digital Archive
The People and the Text
Digital poetics, creative praxis
Further reading
Works cited
7. Canadian Literature as Data
Methodological opportunities
Project goals, methodological challenges
Expanding DH's rubric
Further reading
Works cited
Part IV
8. Intersectional digital humanities
A call for (intersectional) action
Subjects and subjectivity
Projects
The Orlando Project
LGBTQ+ and feminist archives
Yellow Nineties 2.0
Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada
Principles and practices
Further reading
Works cited
9. Race, power, and digital culture
Digital humanities and (the absence of) race
A call to action
Race, literature, and culture
Challenging the human in digital humanities
Further reading
Works cited
10. Indigenous digital humanities
Data sovereignty and data management
Projects
Voices of the Land
FourDirectionsTeachings.com
Kiinawin Kawindomowin / Story Nations
Native Land Digital and Whose Land
Terrastories
The People and the Text
Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures
Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin
#HonouringIndgenousWriters
Literary interventions
Further reading
Works cited
Part V
11. Data acquisition
Finding data
Large-scale text repositories
Aggregators and specialized archives
Supplementary materials
Born-digital and emerging resources
From corpus to curation
Further reading
Works cited
12. Data management
RDM planning basics
Best practices through FAIR data
Findable data
Accessible data
Interoperable data
Reusable data
Linked open data as a model for best practice
The costs of data management
Further reading
Works cited
13. Steps towards analyzing text
Minding the gap
Analyzing the corpus using GUI-based tools
Analyzing the corpus programmatically
Text encoding
Text analysis using Python
Sentiment analysis
Network analysis
Topic modeling
Further reading
Works cited
14. Programming
Building blocks
Data types
Control structures
Application Programming Interfaces
Libraries
Data cleaning
Bringing it all together
Further reading
Works cited
15. Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie, a case study
Starting points
Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie
Data acquisition
Analyzing the texts using Voyant
Analyzing the texts using Python
Further reading
Works cited
Part VI
16. Future thinking: developments and predictions for the twenty-first century
Works cited
Appendix I: Digital humanities laboratories and centres at Canadian universities
Carleton University--Hyperlab
Carleton University--Cultural Heritage Informatics Collaboratory
McGill University--Digital Scholarship Hub
McMaster University--Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Simon Fraser University--Digital Humanities Innovation Lab
Toronto Metropolitan University--Centre for Digital Humanities
Universite de Montreal--Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanites numeriques
University of Alberta--Digital Scholarship Centre
University of British Columbia Okanagan--AMP Lab
University of Guelph--The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Lab
University of Ottawa--Labo de donnees en sciences humaines / The Humanities Data Lab
University of Toronto--Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
University of Victoria--Electronic Textual Cultures Lab / Digital Scholarship Commons
York University--Digital Scholarship Centre
Appendix II: Digital humanities projects, tools and platforms, resources, and organizations
Projects
Tools and platforms
Resources
Organizations
Boundaries and borderlines
Canada in DH, DH in Canada
Quickstart and contexts
Works cited
Part I
1. What is English Canadian literature?
Histories of digital humanities and Canadian literature
The shape of Canadian literary criticism
New critical formations
Further reading
Works cited
2. What Are digital humanities?
What of the humanities?
A provisional, historical, collaborative definition
Methodological
Theoretical
Methodological + theoretical
Further reading
Works Cited
Part II
3. Early interventions: the history of humanities computing and Canadian literature
Early Canadian humanities computing
Emerging organization
Burgeoning humanities computing community
Towards a digital humanities
Artmob
The Orlando Project
Implementing New Knowledge Environments
A proliferation of projects
Further reading
Works cited
4. National literatures, infrastructural developments: emerging concepts of Canadian literature and digital humanities
Humanism and the nation
Other histories
Institutional support for digital humanities
New institutional initiatives
Further reading
Works cited
5. Digital humanities spaces: archives, collaboratories, laboratories, and centres
Digital archives
CanLit and the digital archive
Collaboratories
Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture
Editing Modernism in Canada
SpokenWeb
DH laboratories and centres
Further reading
Works cited
Part III
6. Canadian literary criticism and the digital sphere
Sea change of the digital
Canadian critical interventions
Early Canadian literatury-digital scholarship
The Hypertext Pratt
The Digital Page
Contemporary Canadian literary-digital projects
AMM Bibliography
Distant Reading Mennonite Writing
Fred Wah Digital Archive
The People and the Text
Digital poetics, creative praxis
Further reading
Works cited
7. Canadian Literature as Data
Methodological opportunities
Project goals, methodological challenges
Expanding DH's rubric
Further reading
Works cited
Part IV
8. Intersectional digital humanities
A call for (intersectional) action
Subjects and subjectivity
Projects
The Orlando Project
LGBTQ+ and feminist archives
Yellow Nineties 2.0
Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada
Principles and practices
Further reading
Works cited
9. Race, power, and digital culture
Digital humanities and (the absence of) race
A call to action
Race, literature, and culture
Challenging the human in digital humanities
Further reading
Works cited
10. Indigenous digital humanities
Data sovereignty and data management
Projects
Voices of the Land
FourDirectionsTeachings.com
Kiinawin Kawindomowin / Story Nations
Native Land Digital and Whose Land
Terrastories
The People and the Text
Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures
Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin
#HonouringIndgenousWriters
Literary interventions
Further reading
Works cited
Part V
11. Data acquisition
Finding data
Large-scale text repositories
Aggregators and specialized archives
Supplementary materials
Born-digital and emerging resources
From corpus to curation
Further reading
Works cited
12. Data management
RDM planning basics
Best practices through FAIR data
Findable data
Accessible data
Interoperable data
Reusable data
Linked open data as a model for best practice
The costs of data management
Further reading
Works cited
13. Steps towards analyzing text
Minding the gap
Analyzing the corpus using GUI-based tools
Analyzing the corpus programmatically
Text encoding
Text analysis using Python
Sentiment analysis
Network analysis
Topic modeling
Further reading
Works cited
14. Programming
Building blocks
Data types
Control structures
Application Programming Interfaces
Libraries
Data cleaning
Bringing it all together
Further reading
Works cited
15. Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie, a case study
Starting points
Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie
Data acquisition
Analyzing the texts using Voyant
Analyzing the texts using Python
Further reading
Works cited
Part VI
16. Future thinking: developments and predictions for the twenty-first century
Works cited
Appendix I: Digital humanities laboratories and centres at Canadian universities
Carleton University--Hyperlab
Carleton University--Cultural Heritage Informatics Collaboratory
McGill University--Digital Scholarship Hub
McMaster University--Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Simon Fraser University--Digital Humanities Innovation Lab
Toronto Metropolitan University--Centre for Digital Humanities
Universite de Montreal--Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanites numeriques
University of Alberta--Digital Scholarship Centre
University of British Columbia Okanagan--AMP Lab
University of Guelph--The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Lab
University of Ottawa--Labo de donnees en sciences humaines / The Humanities Data Lab
University of Toronto--Critical Digital Humanities Initiative
University of Victoria--Electronic Textual Cultures Lab / Digital Scholarship Commons
York University--Digital Scholarship Centre
Appendix II: Digital humanities projects, tools and platforms, resources, and organizations
Projects
Tools and platforms
Resources
Organizations