Readings

This page is a quick reference for all course readings, some hosted locally, most linked externally. If you discover a broken link, please notify me immediately.

Algee-Hewitt, Between Canon and Corpus: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels, Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 8. Stanford: January, 2015

Allison, Style at the Scale of the Sentence, Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 5. Stanford: June, 2013

Archer, Data Mining and Word Frequency Analysis, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 2016

Argamon, Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3: No. 2, 2009

Bamman, The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: February, 2018

Beckman, These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most, FiveThirtyEight. 2016 Election: March 10, 2016

Blatt, He Wrote, She Wrote, Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017

Brett, Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction, Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2: No. 1, 2012

Clement, 'A thing not beginning and not ending': Using Digital Tools to Distant Read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans, Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 23: No. 3, September 2008

Drucker, Chapter Excerpt, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014

Drucker, Why Distant Reading Isn’t, PMLA. Vol. 132: No. 3, 2017

D’Ignazio, Feminist Data Visualization, IEEE VIS Conference. Baltimore: October, 2016

Earhart, Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon, Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Edmondson, An Enlightenment Utopia: The Network of Sociability in Corinne, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 11: No. 2, 2017

Galey, How a Prototype Argues, Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 25: No. 4, 2010

Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties, American Journal of Sociology. Volume 78: Number 6, May 1973

Heuser, The Emotions of London, Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 13. Stanford: October, 2016

Holmes, The Evolution of Stylometry in Humanities Scholarship, Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 13: Issue 3, 1998

Houston, Reading the Visual Page in the Digital Archive, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 2016

Ignatow, The Philosophy and Logic of Text Mining" and "Research Design and Basic Tools, An Introduction to Text Mining: Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2018

Isaac, Graphing the Archives of Nineteenth-Century Amateur Newspapers, Book History. Vol. 19: No. 1, 2016

Jockers, Understanding Gender and Character Agency in the 19th Century Novel, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: December, 2016

Karaganis, What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us, The New York Times. New York: January 22, 2016

Liu, The Meaning of the Digital Humanities, PMLA. Vol. 128: No. 2, 2013

Long, Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning, Critical Inquiry. Volume 42: Number 2, Winter 2016

Mandell, Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities, A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden: John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Parrish, The Average Novel, NaNoGenMo2017. Github: November, 2017

Piper, There Will be Numbers, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: May, 2016

Piper, Think Small: On Literary Modeling, PMLA. Vol. 132: No. 3, 2017

Piper, Fictionality, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: December, 2016

Ramsay, The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or, What You do with a Million Books, Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2010

Reagan, The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes, EPJ Data Science. Vol. 5: Issue 31, 2016

Risam, Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 9: No. 2, 2015

Schmidt, Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities, Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2: No. 1, 2012

Tatlock, Crossing Over: Gendered Reading Formations at the Muncie Public Library, 1891-1902, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: March, 2018

Trettien, A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: The Case of Eng/ish Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 7: No. 1, 2013

Underwood, The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us, New Literary History. Volume 45: Number 3, Summer 2014

Underwood, The Life Cycles of Genres, The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal: May, 2016

van Zundert, Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: The Computationality of Hermeneutics, A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden: John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Wadsworth, Evolution of Vocabulary in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Vol. 32: No. 1, September 2017

Warren, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 10: No. 3, October 2016

Weingart, The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling, Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2 Winter: No. 1, 2012

Wernimont, Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Interventions in Digital Literary Archives, Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 7: No. 1, 2013

Zalta, Logical Empiricism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: First published April 4, 2011, substantive revision April 5, 2017