Distant Readings
Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
394 pages
978-1-57113-890-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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Matt Erlin | Lynne Tatlock
Distant Readings
Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
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05/2014
Camden House Inc
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LYNNE TATLOCK is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
LYNNE TATLOCK is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "Distant Reading" and the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century German Literature
- The Origins of Distant Reading
- Kinds of Distance
- Kinds of Reading
- The Ethics of Information and Distance
- Quantification
- Circulation
- Contextualization
- Notes
- I: Quantification
- 1: Burrows's Delta and Its Use in German Literary History
- Introduction
- Methods
- The Corpus
- Results
- Discussion
- Notes
- 2: The Location of Literary History: Topic Modeling, Network Analysis, and the German Novel, 1731-1864
- Introduction
- What Is Topic Modeling, and How Does It Work?
- A Statistical Approach to the History of German Literature (1731-1864)
- From Work to Network: The Case of Jean Paul
- Rethinking Romantic Love
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Partial Lists of Topic Words
- The Arts
- Nature
- Love
- More Challenging Topics
- Jean Paul
- Appendix B: List of Novels in the Corpus
- Notes
- 3: How to Read 22,198 Journal Articles: Studying the History of German Studies with Topic Models
- Existing Approaches: Direct and Collaborative Reading
- Machine Reading: Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Topic Models
- Bag-of-Words and Vector Space Representations
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Topic Models
- Four German Studies Journals (1928-2006)
- Long Nineteenth-Century Topics
- Topic-Modeling Pitfalls
- Prospects for Topic Models
- Notes
- 4: Serial Individuality: Eighteenth-Century Case Study Collections and Nineteenth-Century Archival Fiction
- Case Series and Periodical Statistics
- Case Archives as Source, Topic, and Structure of the Modern Novel
- Cases in a Portfolio: Quantitative Reading and Writing in Adalbert Stifter's Mappe
- Notes
- 5: The Case for Close Reading after the Descriptive Turn
- Genre Madness, or Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
- Empty Vessels, or Dematerialized Forms
- Curious Logic: If You Can't Read Them All, Why Read Any?
- Up Close and Personal: Proofreading and Editing
- Not Yet? Of Science, Pseudoscience, and Literature
- Notes
- II: Circulation
- 6: The Werther Effect I: Goethe, Objecthood, and the Handling of Knowledge
- Werther, Artist
- The Place of the Hand
- From Hand to Handlung
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7: Rethinking Nonfiction: Distant Reading the Nineteenth-Century Science-Literature Divide
- Methodology, Corpus, and Selection Criteria
- New Views of Fiction and Nonfiction in Die Gartenlaube
- Unexpected Relationships: Fiction and Nonfiction in Deutsche Rundschau
- Notes
- 8: Distant Reception: Bringing German Books to America
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Quincy Adams
- Joseph Stevens Buckminster
- Edward Everett
- Harvard
- Christoph Daniel Ebeling
- Yale
- Augustus Thorndike
- Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 9: The One and the Many: The Old Mam'selle's Secret and the American Traffic in German Fiction (1868-1917)
- Domestic Romance German Style: The One
- American Books: The Many
- Reading from a Distance: The One among the Many
- The Life-Span of "Normal Literature"
- Concluding Happily Ever After
- Notes
- III: Contextualization
- 10: The Vocations of the Novel: Distant-Reading Occupational Change in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
- The Phenomenology of Distant Reading
- The Vocations of the Novel
- Modeling Generic Transformations through Occupational Change
- First Case Study: The Schulroman
- Second Case Study: The Künstlerroman
- Third Case Study: The Clerical Novel
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- 11: Big Data, Pattern Recognition, and Literary Studies: N-Gramming the Railway in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction
- Notes
- 12: "Detoured Reading": Understanding Literature through the Eyes of Its Contemporaries (A Case Study on Anti-Semitism in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben)
- Introduction
- Was Soll und Haben Perceived as Anti-Semitic by Its Contemporaries?
- Did Soll und Haben Have an Anti-Semitic Impact on Its Contemporaries?
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- 13: Can Computers Read?
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Related Titles
- Copyright
