‘the size of it all carries us along’ – a new kind of literary history?

HCAS SYMPOSIUM: BIG DATA APPROACHES TO INTELLECTUAL AND LINGUISTIC HISTORY 1–2 DECEMBER 2014

Helsinki      http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/big-data/

references and links for a presentation by Jonathan Hope

pdf of slides Hope Helsinki 2014

title

‘the size of it all carries us along’

This Heat, ‘A New Kind of Water’, from Deceit (1981, Rough Trade)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLMoDU9Tl_E

 

part 1

Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Printed English

(Anupam Basu et al.: Humanities Digital Workshop, Washington University, St Louis)

http://earlyprint.wustl.edu

 

‘accommodated’

William Garrard, The Art of War 1591

Robert Barret, Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres 1598

 

part 2

Visualising English Print: 1450-1800

(Mike Gleicher Wisconsin-Madison U, Michael Witmore Folger Shakespeare Library, Jonathan Hope Strathclyde U)

general:          http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VEPsite/

Ubiq:               http://vep.cs.wisc.edu/ubiq/

Serendip:         http://vep.cs.wisc.edu/serendip/

 

forthcoming papers on the material presented in this section of the talk:

Anupam Basu, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Witmore, ‘Networks and Communities in the Early Modern Theatre’, in Roger Sell and Anthony Johnson (eds), Community-making in Early Stuart Theatres: Stage and Audience (Ashgate)

Michael Witmore, Jonathan Hope, and Michael Gleicher, ‘Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy’, in Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy (Blackwell)

 

references:

Ted Underwood, 2013, Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies(Stanford UP)

 

Goldstone, Andrew, and Ted Underwood, 2014, ‘The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us’, New Literary History  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/49323

 

Ted Underwood, 2014, ‘Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago’, Representations <http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50034>.

 

Alan B. Farmer (forthcoming), ‘Playbooks and the Question of Ephemerality’

 

Lucy Munro, 2013, Archaic Style in English Literature (CUP)