The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-33128-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the concepts and theories at the intersection of Canadian literary studies and digital humanities (DH). Equal parts theoretical and practical, it focuses on debates that overlap the two domains. This book historicizes the connections between the two by surveying the history of DH in Canada, the tradition of Canadian writers engaging with technology, and DH analyses of Canadian literature. It also situates both CanLit and DH with respect to contemporary concerns about alterity, and it demonstrates how digital technologies allow writers and scholars to intervene in them.

This book complements its theoretical discussions with a practical introduction to DH methods. Using Canadian literary texts and examples from projects at the intersection of CanLit and DH, it introduces key DH approaches to novice readers. Topics covered include data collection, data management, and textual analysis, as well as essential DH tools and the Python programming language. A concluding case study guides readers interested in applying the ideas presented throughout.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrett, Paul

Roger, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beyond the boundaries: digital humanities and Canadian literature

Boundaries and borderlines

Canada in DH, DH in Canada

Quickstart and contexts

Works cited

Part I

1. What is English Canadian literature?

Histories of digital humanities and Canadian literature

The shape of Canadian literary criticism

New critical formations

Further reading

Works cited

2. What Are digital humanities?

What of the humanities?

A provisional, historical, collaborative definition Methodological Theoretical Methodological + theoretical

Further reading

Works Cited

Part II

3. Early interventions: the history of humanities computing and Canadian literature

Early Canadian humanities computing

Emerging organization

Burgeoning humanities computing community

Towards a digital humanities Artmob The Orlando Project Implementing New Knowledge Environments A proliferation of projects

Further reading

Works cited

4. National literatures, infrastructural developments: emerging concepts of Canadian literature and digital humanities

Humanism and the nation

Other histories

Institutional support for digital humanities

New institutional initiatives

Further reading

Works cited

5. Digital humanities spaces: archives, collaboratories, laboratories, and centres

Digital archives

CanLit and the digital archive

Collaboratories

Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture

Editing Modernism in Canada

SpokenWeb

DH laboratories and centres

Further reading

Works cited

Part III

6. Canadian literary criticism and the digital sphere

Sea change of the digital

Canadian critical interventions

Early Canadian literatury-digital scholarship The Hypertext Pratt The Digital Page

Contemporary Canadian literary-digital projects

AMM Bibliography

Distant Reading Mennonite Writing

Fred Wah Digital Archive

The People and the Text

Digital poetics, creative praxis

Further reading

Works cited

7. Canadian Literature as Data

Methodological opportunities

Project goals, methodological challenges

Expanding DH’s rubric

Further reading

Works cited

Part IV

8. Intersectional digital humanities

A call for (intersectional) action

Subjects and subjectivity

Projects The Orlando Project LGBTQ+ and feminist archives Yellow Nineties 2.0 Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada

Principles and practices

Further reading

Works cited

9. Race, power, and digital culture

Digital humanities and (the absence of) race

A call to action

Race, literature, and culture

Challenging the human in digital humanities

Further reading

Works cited

10. Indigenous digital humanities

Data sovereignty and data management

Projects

Voices of the Land

FourDirectionsTeachings.com

Kiinawin Kawindomowin / Story Nations

Native Land Digital and Whose Land

Terrastories

The People and the Text

Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures

Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin

#HonouringIndgenousWriters

Literary interventions

Further reading

Works cited

Part V

11. Data acquisition

Finding data

Large-scale text repositories

Aggregators and specialized archives

Supplementary materials

Born-digital and emerging resources

From corpus to curation

Further reading

Works cited

12. Data management

RDM planning basics

Best practices through FAIR data

Findable data

Accessible data

Interoperable data

Reusable data

Linked open data as a model for best practice

The costs of data management

Further reading

Works cited

13. Steps towards analyzing text

Minding the gap

Analyzing the corpus using GUI-based tools

Analyzing the corpus programmatically

Text encoding

Text analysis using Python

Sentiment analysis

Network analysis

Topic modeling Further reading Works cited

14. Programming

Building blocks

Data types

Control structures

Application Programming Interfaces

Libraries

Data cleaning

Bringing it all together

Further reading

Works cited

15. Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie, a case study Starting points Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie Data acquisition Analyzing the texts using Voyant Analyzing the texts using Python Further reading Works cited

Part VI

16. Future thinking: developments and predictions for the twenty-first century

Works cited

Appendix I: Digital humanities laboratories and centres at Canadian universities

Carleton University--Hyperlab

Carleton University--Cultural Heritage Informatics Collaboratory

McGill University--Digital Scholarship Hub

McMaster University--Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship

Simon Fraser University--Digital Humanities Innovation Lab

Toronto Metropolitan University--Centre for Digital Humanities

Université de Montréal--Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques

University of Alberta--Digital Scholarship Centre

University of British Columbia Okanagan--AMP Lab

University of Guelph--The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Lab

University of Ottawa--Labo de données en sciences humaines / The Humanities Data Lab

University of Toronto--Critical Digital Humanities Initiative

University of Victoria--Electronic Textual Cultures Lab / Digital Scholarship Commons

York University--Digital Scholarship Centre

Appendix II: Digital humanities projects, tools and platforms, resources, and organizations

Projects

Tools and platforms

Resources

Organizations

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Barrett is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing and the Culture and Technology Studies program at the University of Guelph.

Sarah Roger is the project manager for the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.