Contents
Introduction: Questions and Opportunities for Twenty-First-Century Literary History
Part I. The Digital World
Chapter 1. Abstraction, Singularity, Textuality: The Equivalence of “Close” and “Distant” Reading
Chapter 2. Back to the Future: A New Scholarly Objectfor (Data-Rich) Literary History
Chapter 3. From World to Trove to Data: Tracing a History of Transmission
Part II. Fiction in the World
Chapter 4. Into the Unknown: Literary Anonymity and the Inscription of Reception
Chapter 5. Fictional Systems: Network Analysis and Syndication Networks
Chapter 6. “Man people woman life” / “Creek sheep cattlehorses”: Influence, Distinction, and Literary Traditions
Conclusion: Whither Worlds and Data Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index