Reading by Numbers

'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.

Katherine Bode is Head of the Digital Humanities Hub at the Australian National University, Canberra. Australia.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Introduction A New History of the Australian Novel	p. 1
Literary Studies in the Digital Age	p. 7
Quantitative Method and its Critics	p. 8
Critical Quantification: Book History and die Digital Humanities	p. 13
Beyond the Book: Publishing in the Nineteenth Century	p. 27
Book Publishing: 1830s to 1850s	p. 30
Serial Publishing	p. 34
The Cycle of Serial and Book Publishing	p. 40
Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s	p. 43
Book Publishing: 1890s	p. 47
Nostalgia and the Novel: Looking Back, Looking Forward	p. 57
British Domination? 1940s to 1960s	p. 62
The Golden Age? 1970s to 1980s	p. 70
Multinational Domination? 1990s to 2000s	p. 79
The End of Local Publishing? 1990s to 2000s	p. 88
Recovering Gender: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century	p. 105
Feminist Literary Criticism and the Nineteenth Century	p. 107
Serial Publishing	p. 113
Book Publishing: 1860s to 1880s	p. 120
Gender and the 1890s	p. 124
The 'Rise' of the Woman Novelist: Popular and Literary Trends	p. 131
Male Domination? 1940s to 1960s	p. 135
Female Liberation? 1970s to 1980s	p. 143
Beyond Gender? 1990s to 2000s	p. 153
Conclusion Literary Studies in the Digital Future	p. 169
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 237
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