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Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District pioneers, implements, and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from 1622-1900, this study exemplifies how geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of the literary geographies that condition the way we perceive and respond to landscapes.
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1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing
The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis
The Corpus of Lake District Writing
Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science
Geographical Text Analysis
Deep Mapping as Literary Practice
2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities
Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque
The Picturesque in the CLDW
Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data
Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen
3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies
The "Discovery" of the Lake District
Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes
Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District
Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants' Lakeland
4 Walking in the Literary Lakes
Types of Lake District Walking
Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion
"Linger There a Breathing While": Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes
5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District's Soundscape
The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence
Wordsworthian Listening
How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls
The "Most Expensive Luxuries": Cannon-Fire and English Echoes
6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell
Mapping Scafell
Climbing Scafell
The View from the Top
Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping
Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
JOANNA E. TAYLOR is a presidential fellow in digital humanities at the University of Manchester in the UK. Her research explores the uses of digital technologies at the intersection between literary geographies, cultural heritage, and environmental studies. Digital methodologies and technologies extend the reach of this work. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals across literary studies, digital humanities, and geographical information science.
IAN N. GREGORYis a professor in digital humanities at Lancaster University in the UK. He is particularly interested in using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with texts as well as the more traditional quantitative sources. He has used these approaches to study a range of topics from historical demography to Lake District literature. This research has been the subject of a number of major projects including the European Research Council funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places and the Leverhulme Trust funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities.
Summary
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 study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age.
