Joanna E Taylor, Ian N Gregory

Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

A Geographical Text Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District pioneers, implements, and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from 1622-1900, this study exemplifies how geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of the literary geographies that condition the way we perceive and respond to landscapes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781684483761
• ISBN-10: 168448376X
• Artikelnr.: 62561401

Autorenporträt

JOANNA E. TAYLOR is a presidential fellow in digital humanities at the University of Manchester in the UK. Her research explores the uses of digital technologies at the intersection between literary geographies, cultural heritage, and environmental studies. Digital methodologies and technologies extend the reach of this work. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals across literary studies, digital humanities, and geographical information science. IAN N. GREGORYis a professor in digital humanities at Lancaster University in the UK. He is particularly interested in using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with texts as well as the more traditional quantitative sources. He has used these approaches to study a range of topics from historical demography to Lake District literature. This research has been the subject of a number of major projects including the European Research Council funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places and the Leverhulme Trust funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures  Tables  Note on the Data  1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing      The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis     The Corpus of Lake District Writing      Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science     Geographical Text Analysis     Deep Mapping as Literary Practice  2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities      Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque      The Picturesque in the CLDW     Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data      Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen  3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies      The
Discovery
of the Lake District      Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes      Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District      Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants
Lakeland  4 Walking in the Literary Lakes      Types of Lake District Walking      Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion      
Linger There a Breathing While
: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes  5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District
s Soundscape      The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence      Wordsworthian Listening      How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls      The
Most Expensive Luxuries
: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes  6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell      Mapping Scafell      Climbing Scafell      The View from the Top  Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping  Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing  Acknowledgments Notes  Bibliography  Index