Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)

Drawing On The Expertise Of Leading Researchers From Around The Globe, This Pioneering Collection Of Essays Explores How Geospatial Technologies Are Revolutionizing The Discipline Of Literary Studies. The Book Offers The First Intensive Examination Of Digital Literary Cartography, A Field Whose Recent And Rapid Development Has Yet To Be Coherently Analysed. This Collection Not Only Provides An Authoritative Account Of The Current State Of The Field, But Also Informs A New Generation Of Digital Humanities Scholars About The Critical And Creative Potentials Of Digital Literary Mapping. The Book Showcases The Work Of Exemplary Literary Mapping Projects And Provides The Reader With An Overview Of The Tools, Techniques And Methods Those Projects Employ. Mapping The Emotions Of London In Fiction, 1700-1900 : A Crowdsourcing Experiment / Ryan Heuser, Mark Algee-hewitt, Annalise Lockhart, Erik Steiner And Van Tran -- The Digital Poetics Of Place-names In Literary Edinburgh / Miranda Anderson And James Loxley -- Geographical Text Analysis : Digital Cartographies Of Lake District Literature / Ian Gregory And Christopher Donaldson -- Mapping Fiction : The Theories, Tools And Potentials Of Literary Cartography / Barbara Piatti -- Bloomsday's Big Data : Gis, Social Media And James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) / Charles Travis -- Mapping Fiction : Spatialising The Literary Work / Sally Bushell -- The Spatial Practices Of Writing : Arnold Bennett And The Possibilities Of Literary Gis / Angharad Saunders -- Between Distant And Deep Digital Mapping : Walking The Plotlines Of Cardiff's Literary Geographies / Jon Anderson -- The Cestrian Book Of The Dead : A Necrogeographic Survey Of The Dee Estuary / Les Roberts -- Making The Invisible Visible : Place, Spatial Stories And Deep Maps / David J. Bodenhamer -- From Mapping Text In Space To Experiencing Text In Place : Exploring Literary Virtual Geographies / Trevor M. Harris, H. Frank Lafone And Dan Bonenberger -- Spatial Frames Of Reference For Literature Through Geospatial Technologies / Gary Priestnall -- Geovisuality : Literary Implications / Tania Rossetto -- Setting The Globe To Spin : Digital Mapping And Contemporary Literary Culture / David Cooper. Edited By David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson And Patricia Murrieta-flores. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 9 List of Plates 12 List of Tables 14 List of Contributors 15 Series Preface 17 Acknowledgments 19 Introduction: Rethinking Literary Mapping 20 Part I Mapping Methods: Systems, Approaches and Innovations 42 1 Mapping the Emotions of London in Fiction, 1700–1900: A Crowdsourcing Experiment 44 2 The Digital Poetics of Place-Names in Literary Edinburgh 66 3 Geographical Text Analysis: Digital Cartographies of Lake District Literature 86 4 Mapping Fiction: The Theories, Tools and Potentials of Literary Cartography 107 5 Bloomsday’s Big Data: GIS, Social Media and James Joyce’s Ulysses 121 Part II Mapping Practices: Places, Writers and Readers 142 6 Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Work 144 7 The Spatial Practices of Writing: Arnold Bennett and the Possibilities of Literary GIS 166 8 Between ‘Distant’ and ‘Deep’ Digital Mapping: Walking the Plotlines of Cardiff’s Literary Geographies 180 9 The Cestrian Book of the Dead: A Necrogeographic Survey of the Dee Estuary 201 Part III Mapping Futures: Collecting, Curating and Creating 224 10 Making the Invisible Visible: Place, Spatial Stories and Deep Maps 226 11 From Mapping Text in Space to Experiencing Text in Place: Exploring Literary Virtual Geographies 240 12 Spatial Frames of Reference for Literature Through Geospatial Technologies 259 13 Geovisuality: Literary Implications 277 14 ‘Setting the globe to spin’: Digital Mapping and Contemporary Literary Culture 295 Index 316 Presentación del editor: "Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the field, but also informs a new generation of digital humanities scholars about the critical and creative potentials of digital literary mapping. The book showcases the work of exemplary literary mapping projects and provides the reader with an overview of the tools, techniques and methods those projects employ."