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 […]
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‘the size of it all carries us along’ – a new kind of literary history?
The Novel and Moral Philosophy 2: Telling and Feeling, Aunts and Letters
Before I begin commenting on what I see in Serendip’s findings, I think it is worth providing some general information about the work from which the screen shot below is taken. The author, Charlotte Lennox (1730-1804), is most known for her novel The Female Quixote (1752), a picaresque about a romance addict who perpetually confuses […]
Digital approaches to the language of Shakespearean Tragedy
This post supplies data and further diagrams for Digital approaches to Shakespearean tragedy to be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, edited by Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk. You can download our main spreadsheet as an Excel file, with details of all plays included in the study, and frequencies for Docuscope LATs: Tragedy Data And here […]
Adjacencies, Virtuous and Vicious, and the Forking Paths of Library Research
Browsable stacks – shelves of books that you can actually look at, pull off the shelf, read a while, and put back. They’re wonderful. Folger readers regularly comment on the fact that they can walk freely through the stacks of the secondary collection, which in our case means books published after 1830. That collection is […]
Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare
The written version of a paper we gave in Paris last year (2013) has just been published by the Société française Shakespeare. Here is the paper (which is in English), and here are the citation details: Pour citer cet article Référence papier Jonathan Hope et Michael Witmore, « Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare », Actes des congrès de la […]