Abstract
Digital humanities methods – particularly ones that focus on numerical data – have not traditionally been used in literary studies because of the way quantitative analysis is viewed as being diametrically opposed to the hermeneutic methods typically associated with English literature. This presentation challenges this presumption and uses nineteenth-century cross-dressing narratives as a lens to demonstrate how useful digital humanities methods are in both finding and analysing literature. Motivated by a review of existing scholarship which concludes that a new - but equally narrow - literary canon has emerged, the aim of this paper is to challenge the canon by exploring new mechanisms for finding primary source material. Using the expanded corpus of cross-dressing narratives, I will illustrate how quantitative analysis can be used to reveal insights that would not be possible through traditional methods alone.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2024 |
Event | Teesside University's 2023/4 English and Creative Writing Research Seminar Series - Duration: 2 Oct 2023 → 1 Jun 2024 |
Seminar
Seminar | Teesside University's 2023/4 English and Creative Writing Research Seminar Series |
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Period | 2/10/23 → 1/06/24 |