TY - BOOK ID - 3486024 TI - Distant readings : topologies of German culture in the long nineteenth century AU - Erlin, Matt AU - Tatlock, Lynne PY - 2014 VL - *104 SN - 9781571135391 1571135391 9781571138903 157113896X 1571138900 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Books and reading KW - German literature KW - Literature publishing KW - 094:830 KW - 830 "18/19" KW - Literary publishing KW - Literature KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Young Germany KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Duitse literatuur KW - Duitse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - Publishing KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - Germany KW - Intellectual life KW - Conferences - Meetings KW - 830 "18/19" Duitse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - 094:830 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Duitse literatuur KW - History and criticism KW - Abundance of Text. KW - Close Reading. KW - Culture. KW - Digital Humanities. KW - Distant Reading. KW - Interpretation. KW - Literary-Historical Analysis. KW - Literate Populace. KW - Literature. KW - Nineteenth-century Germany. KW - Patterns. KW - Print Production. KW - Printing Technology. KW - Trends. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3486024 AB - In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance of text. Responding to Franco Moretti's call for "distant reading" and modeling a range of innovative approaches to literary-historical analysis informed by theburgeoning field of digital humanities, it asks what happens when we shift our focus from the one to the many, from the work to the network. The thirteen essays in this volume explore the evolving concept of "distant reading" and its application to the analysis of German literature and culture in the long nineteenth century. The contributors consider how new digital technologies enable both the testing of hypotheses and the discovery of patterns and trends, as well as how "distant" and traditional "close" reading can complement each another in hybrid models of analysis that maintain careful attention to detail, but also make calculation, enumeration, and empirical descriptioncritical elements of interpretation. Contributors: Kirsten Belgum, Tobias Boes, Matt Erlin, Fotis Jannidis and Gerhard Lauer, Lutz Koepnick, Todd Kontje, Peter M. McIsaac, Katja Mellmann, Nicolas Pethes, Andrew Piper and Mark Algee-Hewitt, Allen Beye Riddell, Lynne Tatlock, Paul A. Youngman and Ted Carmichael. Matt Erlin is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, both at Washington University, St. Louis. ER -