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A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History

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Katherine Bode
2018
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Series: Digital Humanities
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Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title, Series Titles, Title Page, Copyright

Acknowledgments

pp. v-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Introduction: Questions and Opportunities for Twenty-First-Century Literary History

pp. 1-14

Part I. The Digital World

Chapter 1. Abstraction, Singularity, Textuality: The Equivalence of “Close” and “Distant” Reading

pp. 17-36

Chapter 2. Back to the Future: A New Scholarly Object for (Data-Rich) Literary History

pp. 37-58

Chapter 3. From World to Trove to Data: Tracing a History of Transmission

pp. 59-82

Part II. Fiction in the World

Chapter 4. Into the Unknown: Literary Anonymity and the Inscription of Reception

pp. 85-122

Chapter 5. Fictional Systems: Network Analysis and Syndication Networks

pp. 123-156

Chapter 6. “Man people woman life” / “Creek sheep cattlehorses”: Influence, Distinction, and Literary Traditions

pp. 157-198

Conclusion: Whither Worlds and Data Futures

pp. 199-210

Notes

pp. 211-228

Bibliography

pp. 229-244

Index

pp. 245-252
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