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'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.'
Source: Publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Read the introduction or access some of Dr. Bode's data sets.

  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction: A New History of the Australian Novel; Chapter 1. Literary Studies in the Digital Age; Chapter 2. Beyond the Book: Publishing in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 3. Nostalgia and the Novel: Looking Back, Looking Forward; Chapter 4. Recovering Gender: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 5. The ‘Rise’ of the Woman Novelist: Popular and Literary Trends; Conclusion: Literary Studies in the Digital Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Anthem Press ,       2012 .
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      Extent: 256p.p.
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      • Includes bibliographical references and index.
      ISBN: 9780857284549 (hbk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture London : Anthem Press , 2016 9437932 2016 series - publisher criticism y separately published work icon Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print London : Anthem Press , 2012- 13457233 2012 series - publisher criticism

      'The series publishes original, high-quality research in all areas relating to the history of the book, publishing and the book trade, copyright and cultural policy, reading practices, the circulation of print media, and digital and screen media and their wider impact. We have a special interest in studies of modern print cultures, in postcolonial and transnational contexts, and in intersections between book history/print culture studies and cultural/media studies.'  (Publication summary)
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Resourceful Reading Gillian Whitlock (lead researcher), Robert Dixon (lead researcher), Leigh Dale (lead researcher), Katherine Bode (lead researcher), St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2008 Z1798374 2008 website criticism

Resourceful Reading re-examines and re-invigorates Australian literary criticism and history by integrating traditional, qualitative approaches to literary studies with empirically-rich methodologies including data-mining and quantitative analysis. This community aims to contribute to AustLit as well as to maximize the potential of this important, data-rich resource.

Data resulting from five separate but linked research projects was the digital end product of Resourceful Reading.

The five linked projects were :

– Professor Gillian Whitlock's Late 20th Century Anthologies

– Professor Gillian Whitlock's Asylum Seeker Narratives

– Professor Robert Dixon's Australian Literature in the 'Translation Zone'

– Professor Leigh Dale's Australian Newspaper Reviews of 1930

– Dr. Katherine Bode's Reading by Numbers

More information on each project can be found in the individual project pages.
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Digital Curation, AustLit, and Australian Children's Literature Amy Cross , Cherie Allan , Kerry Kilner , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children's Literature , July vol. 12 no. 1 2019; (p. 1-17)

'This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.'

Source: EUP.
Taking the Measure of Gender Disparity in Australian Book Reviewing as a Field, 1985 and 2013 Melinda Harvey , Julieanne Lamond , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 60 2016; 'This essay presents and analyses the initial results of a large-scale and comparative quantitative survey of book reviews to draw some conclusions about the current state of Australian book reviewing as a field. We argue that the gender disparity in Australian book reviewing that has been identified by the Stella Count over the past four years needs to be seen in the wider context of changes to the nature and extent of book reviews over time. We compare two key publications across two years, three decades apart: Australian Book Review (ABR) and The Australian in 1985 and 2013.' (Introduction)
Copyright Law, Readers and Authors in Colonial Australia Sara Ailwood , Maree Sainsbury , 2014 single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'This article explores the impact of imperial and domestic copyright law on Australian readers, authors and literary culture throughout the nineteenth century. It investigates the effects of the Copyright Act 1842 on colonial readers, in terms of the cost and availability of books and the circulation of ideas, and uncovers Australian responses to the Foreign Reprints Act 1847. It further explores the creation of domestic colonial copyright legislation and its links to an increase in the number of novels published as books in the 1870s and 1880s. Drawing on recent empirical research exploring relationships between book publishing and the growth of a national literature, it argues that copyright law and policy are important considerations in fostering such histories of Australian literary culture.' (Publication abstract)
[Untitled] Maryanne Dever , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October-November vol. 27 no. 3/4 2012; (p. 143-145)
— Review of Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field Katherine Bode , 2012 single work criticism
[Untitled] Maryanne Dever , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October-November vol. 27 no. 3/4 2012; (p. 143-145)
— Review of Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field Katherine Bode , 2012 single work criticism
Copyright Law, Readers and Authors in Colonial Australia Sara Ailwood , Maree Sainsbury , 2014 single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'This article explores the impact of imperial and domestic copyright law on Australian readers, authors and literary culture throughout the nineteenth century. It investigates the effects of the Copyright Act 1842 on colonial readers, in terms of the cost and availability of books and the circulation of ideas, and uncovers Australian responses to the Foreign Reprints Act 1847. It further explores the creation of domestic colonial copyright legislation and its links to an increase in the number of novels published as books in the 1870s and 1880s. Drawing on recent empirical research exploring relationships between book publishing and the growth of a national literature, it argues that copyright law and policy are important considerations in fostering such histories of Australian literary culture.' (Publication abstract)
Taking the Measure of Gender Disparity in Australian Book Reviewing as a Field, 1985 and 2013 Melinda Harvey , Julieanne Lamond , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 60 2016; 'This essay presents and analyses the initial results of a large-scale and comparative quantitative survey of book reviews to draw some conclusions about the current state of Australian book reviewing as a field. We argue that the gender disparity in Australian book reviewing that has been identified by the Stella Count over the past four years needs to be seen in the wider context of changes to the nature and extent of book reviews over time. We compare two key publications across two years, three decades apart: Australian Book Review (ABR) and The Australian in 1985 and 2013.' (Introduction)
Digital Curation, AustLit, and Australian Children's Literature Amy Cross , Cherie Allan , Kerry Kilner , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children's Literature , July vol. 12 no. 1 2019; (p. 1-17)

'This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.'

Source: EUP.
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