The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the process of building the multilingual European
Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) that is being created in the framework of the networking …

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 …

The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about
youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail …

Computational Stylistics (CS) is a field of enquiry that examines the forms, social
embedding, and the aesthetic potential of literary texts by means of computational and …

Abstract In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google
Arts and Culture (GA&C), that currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution …

This Element tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in
the field of literary studies. When working with texts, how can we move, reliably and credibly …

This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles.
Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth …

The abolitionist movement of the nineteenth-century United States remains among the most
significant social and political movements in US history. Abolitionist newspapers played a …

Purpose Large cultural heritage datasets from museum collections tend to be biased and
demonstrate omissions that result from a series of decisions at various stages of the …

This contribution exemplifies a workflow for the quantitative operationalization and analysis
of historical literary reception. We will show how to encode literary historical information in a …