Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

A Geographical Text Analysis

Joanna E. Taylor, Ian N. Gregory

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781684483754
  9781684483761
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684483778
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Geography
• Index: Literature

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. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Note on the Data
• 1. Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing
• 2. Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities
• 3. Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies
• 4. Walking in the Literary Lakes
• 5. Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape
• 6. Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell
• Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping
• Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors