TY  - UNPD
A1  - Algee-Hewitt, Mark
A1  - Allison, Sarah
A1  - Gemma, Marissa
A1  - Heuser, Ryan
A1  - Moretti, Franco
A1  - Walser, Hannah
T1  - Canon/archive : large-scale dynamics in the literary field
T2  - Stanford Literary Lab: Pamphlets ; 11
N2  - Of the novelties introduced by digitization in the study of literature, the size of the archive is probably the most dramatic: we used to work on a couple of hundred nineteenth-century novels, and now we can analyze thousands of them, tens of thousands, tomorrow hundreds of thousands. It's a moment of euphoria, for quantitative literary history: like having a telescope that makes you see entirely new galaxies. And it's a moment of truth: so, have the digital skies revealed anything that changes our knowledge of literature? This is not a rhetorical question. In the famous 1958 essay in which he hailed "the advent of a quantitative history" that would "break with the traditional form of nineteenth-century history", Fernand Braudel mentioned as its typical materials "demographic progressions, the movement of wages, the variations in interest rates [...] productivity [...] money supply and demand." These were all quantifiable entities, clearly enough; but they were also completely new objects compared to the study of legislation, military campaigns, political cabinets, diplomacy, and so on. It was this double shift that changed the practice of history; not quantification alone. In our case, though, there is no shift in materials: we may end up studying 200,000 novels instead of 200; but, they're all still novels. Where exactly is the novelty?
T3  - Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab - 11 
KW  - Quantitative Literaturwissenschaft
KW  - Digital Humanities
KW  - Romantheorie
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47005
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-470058
UR  - https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet11.pdf
SN  - 2164-1757
VL  - Stanford Literary Lab
PB  - Stanford
ER  -