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Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Author: David Cooper
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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. **About the Author David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Christopher Donaldson is a Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Birmingham, UK and Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Chester, UK
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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. **About the Author David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Christopher Donaldson is a Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Birmingham, UK and Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Chester, UK
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