Quantitative literary studies is often understood as homogeneous in its methods; many
literary scholars also perceive the field as incapable of contributing literary-critical or …

We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web
have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of …

Feminist cultural theorists, and perhaps cultural theorists more generally, are discouraged
from exploring cultural analytics, or “the computational study of culture,” 1 whenever data …

Numbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more
concerned with exploring differences of interpretation than with describing the objective …

This essay brings together two methods of cultural‐literary analysis that have yet to be fully
integrated: distant reading and the critique of race and racial difference. It constructs a …

Ever since TB Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that'a single shelf of a good
European library was worth the whole native literature of India,'South Asian literature has …

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 …

The use of computational tools for the study of literature can facilitate new perspectives and
avenues for critical work. Reflecting on the recent emergence of (and increasing hype …

This article proposes Ullapoolism, a post-data, activist, autoethnographic epistemology for
contemporary book culture studies. It begins by addressing the challenges of …

Scientists have recently proposed 1610 as a candidate for the first year of the new
geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. They pinpoint the rise of European …