Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

A Geographical Text Analysis

Joanna E. Taylor, Ian N. Gregory (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2022
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-376-1 (ISBN)

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England’s famed Lake District - best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers - is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age.

England’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.

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.

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	45 b&w images, 62 color images, 7 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Irland
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-68448-376-X / 168448376X
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-376-1 / 9781684483761
Zustand	Neuware