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The Novel and Moral Philosophy 1: What Does Charlotte Lennox Have to Do with Adam Smith?

By Eric Alexander and Michael Witmore | Published: October 23, 2014

The Visualizing English Print group is using new visualization tools to study genre dynamics in our corpus of texts spanning the years 1530-1799. While far from comprehensive, the corpus spans an interesting period in the history of English print. Most literary historians, for example, would agree that this is the period when the novel emerges […]

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An Ecology of Critical Gestures: Point, Circle and Name

By Michael Witmore | Published: February 17, 2013

In this post I attempt to isolate what I take to be three basic critical gestures that are performed in both “traditional” and “iterative” literary criticism. These gestures are: pointing, circling, and naming. Before giving examples of these three gestures, a few words about what makes them possible in digital work: establishing a corpus, defining […]

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