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The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities

Paul Barrett Sarah Roger

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Routledge
30 June 2025
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.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781032331287
ISBN 10:   1032331283
Series:   Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature
Pages:   330
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries: Digital Humanities and Canadian Literature Boundaries and borderlines Canada in DH, DH in Canada Quickstart and contexts Further reading 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 Further reading 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 literature digital scholarship The Hypertext Pratt The Digital Page Contemporary Canadian literary-digital projects Distant Reading Mennonite Writing AMM Bibliography 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 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 Research data management 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 modelling 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

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.

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