David Cooper - Literary Mapping in the Digital Age

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.

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Christopher Donaldson is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Chester, UK.

Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan, Lorna Hughes, Andrew Prescott and Harold Short

Digital technologies are becoming increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation and dissemination. This important series will cover a wide range of disciplines with each volume focusing on a particular area, identifying the ways in which technology impacts on specific subjects. The aim is to provide an authoritative reflection of the state of the art in the application of computing and technology. The series will be critical reading for experts in digital humanities and technology issues, and it will also be of wide interest to all scholars working in humanities and arts research.

Also in the series:

Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage

Erik Champion

Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive

David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan

Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Mia Ridge

Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

Sambit Datta and David Beynon

Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage

Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker

Art Practice in a Digital Culture

Hazel Gardiner and Charlie Gere

Literary Mapping in the Digital Age

Edited by David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores

Forthcoming:

Digital Palaeography

Stewart Brookes, Malte Rehbein and Peter A. Stokes

Shakespeares Language in Digital Media

Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad with Mark Kaethler

Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age

Paul Gooding

Edited by
David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson
and Patricia Murrieta-Flores

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DAVID COOPER, CHRISTOPHER DONALDSON AND PATRICIA MURRIETA-FLORES

Part I
Mapping Methods: Systems, Approaches and Innovations

RYAN HEUSER, MARK ALGEE-HEWITT, ANNALISE LOCKHART, ERIK STEINER AND VAN TRAN

MIRANDA ANDERSON AND JAMES LOXLEY

IAN GREGORY AND CHRISTOPHER DONALDSON

BARBARA PIATTI

CHARLES TRAVIS

Part II
Mapping Practices: Places, Writers and Readers

SALLY BUSHELL

ANGHARAD SAUNDERS

JON ANDERSON

LES ROBERTS

Part III
Mapping Futures: Collecting, Curating and Creating

DAVID J. BODENHAMER

TREVOR M. HARRIS, H. FRANK LAFONE AND DAN BONENBERGER

GARY PRIESTNALL

TANIA ROSSETTO

DAVID COOPER

Mark Algee-Hewitt is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the department of English at Stanford University, USA, and Co-Associate Director for Research of the Stanford Literary Lab.

Jon Anderson is a Reader in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK.

Miranda Anderson was the initiator of and a Research Fellow on the Palimpsest Project. She also initiated and is now a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project, A History of Distributed Cognition at the University of Edinburgh.

David J. Bodenhamer is Executive Director of the Polis Center, Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of Informatics, and Co-Director of the Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities at Indiana UniversityPurdue University, Indianapolis, USA.

Dan Bonenberger is Associate Professor of Geography at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and an associate of the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project.

Christopher Donaldson is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Birmingham, UK; he is also Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities project (20152018) and an associate of the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project (20122016).

Ian Gregory is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University, UK, and Principal Investigator on both the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project (20122016) and the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities project (20152018).

Trevor M. Harris is Eberly Distinguished Professor of Geography at West Virginia University, USA.