...? ” Scottish Literary Review 2 , no. 1 : 159 – 69 . Wordsworth William Coleridge Samuel Taylor . 1969 . Lyrical Ballads , edited by Owen W. J. B. . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Robert Burns and Big Data; or, Pests of Quantity and Visualization Matthew Wickman...

... 20 : 188 – 225 . COST . n.d. “ Distant Reading for European Literary History .” www.cost.eu/actions/CA16204/#tabs|Name:overview . Crawford Kate , Miltner Kate , and Gray Mary L. . 2014 . “ Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistemology .” International Journal...

.... It was the challenge of conducting formal analysis on such a scale that led Moretti to undertake the series of computational experiments he characterized as “distant reading,” an approach that seemed to bring literary studies (kicking and screaming) into the age of “big data,” its human-scale canons of masterworks...

... could be among those to supply these much-needed principles and values while helping democratize and regulate technology. In doing so, they might help redress not only Big Data’s harmful exclusions but also the insular “tribes” of Silicon Valley that reproduce these problems (Webb 2019 : 52...

... of the production of rule-breaking texts that vie for inclusion within or exclusion from literary categories and canons, big data will always, at the very least, lag behind actual human reading. Our arguments about the correctness of calling something a detective novel will not be settled by data. In Goodlad’s...

....” Where interpretation and observation are “anecdotal and speculative,” “big data” is supposedly separate from human involvement and thus offers “comprehensive and definitive” historical facts (31). According to Jockers, literary scholars “have the equivalent of big data in the form of big [digital...

...-Romantic. A follow-up chart pictures the rise of unconsciously at the start of the nineteenth century, apparently at insensibly ’s expense. This use of big data obscures more than it reveals. Insensibly was in currency from the mid-sixteenth century forward and had meanings ranging from the funereal...

... for the exploration of canon formation. Another literary critic working inside the paradigms of “normal science” might have spent many more years trying to work out the kinks in the particular model of cultural selection. Moretti simply moved on to big data (more accurately, in much of his practice, moderate data...

... works, but it places them in a big-data context, using the resources of dictionaries and searchable corpora of texts to allow for arguments that hinge on single words and changing patterns in types of words. He specifically invokes the example of Raymond Williams’s Keywords (1976)—a work done before...

...: the digital humanities give us a better historical mousetrap, that is, than any periodizing activity of the past two hundred years. So we are offered one extended example of big-data findings that show why it is fruitless to periodize. This graph shows “the differentiation of diction in three genres” across...

...=581 . Piper Andrew , and Portelance Eva . 2016 . “ How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading .” Post45 , May 10 . Schöch Christof . 2013 . “ Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities .” Journal of Digital Humanities 2...

...,” and a “new Milton criticism.” The rise of “big data” has further exposed the limitations of traditional archives (among them the exclusive rare book collections at elite libraries), on which the specificity of historicist interpretation was grounded. Thick descriptions of events, institutions, and “speech...

..., it would seem that as a discipline we like to champion David but keep Goliath, too, to toggle between the telling example and big data. One way to answer these questions is to identify Auerbach’s relatively idiosyncratic inflections of the critical act, the hallmarks of his distinctive style...

... history of thousands of years? If so, does it have practical statistics to support itself? If not, it will be hard to convince others of its validity, and although it might be popular for a while, this could never last. Still, in this connection, big data and cloud computing give grounds for optimism...

... is but one of the disciplines from which the new descriptivism borrows; it finds support also in the renewed emphasis on description in anthropology, geography, sociology, and big-data analysis, among others. The new descriptivism in literary studies is broadly interdisciplinary in its sources yet resolutely...

.... That is trickier than it sounds, because a pattern-finding algorithm can usually find some pattern in a finite data set. Although a correlation between language and reception might look strong, it could be largely accidental; in effect, the algorithm has only “memorized” the quirks of particular examples. To test...

... . CreateSpace . www.createspace.com . Spector Robert . 2002 . Amazon.com : Get Big Fast . New York : Harper Business . Stephenson Neal . 2015 . Seveneves . New York : Morrow . Stone Brad . 2013 . The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon . New York : Little...

... the analog humanities—that allows us to move freely and productively between the big domains of data or the high abstractions of theory, on the one hand, and the minute semiologies of text, figure, and word, on the other. It is where our overlapping skills as specialists, as archivists, as exegetes...

... of “linguistic data.” He mixes sorrow and anger with a touch of sarcasm: There is no reason to suppose that critics of Pinter are alone in ignoring recent advances in the understanding of the logic of language, so there is clearly some obstacle that has prevented the by no means...

... that her book “is intended to supply the need for a modern scholarly biography” (p. ix). 1 am sad to report that she has succeeded in only a part of that intention-she has written a decent biography, but it will not meet the needs of the scholar. She has gathered Herford and Simpson’s data...