Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

JOANNA E. TAYLOR is a presidential fellow in digital humanities at the University of Manchester in the UK. Her research explores the uses of digital technologies at the intersection between literary geographies, cultural heritage, and environmental studies. Digital methodologies and technologies extend the reach of this work. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals across literary studies, digital humanities, and geographical information science. IAN N. GREGORYis a professor in digital humanities at Lancaster University in the UK. He is particularly interested in using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with texts as well as the more traditional quantitative sources. He has used these approaches to study a range of topics from historical demography to Lake District literature. This research has been the subject of a number of major projects including the European Research Council funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places and the Leverhulme Trust funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities.

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1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing 

    The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis

    The Corpus of Lake District Writing 

    Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science

    Geographical Text Analysis

    Deep Mapping as Literary Practice 

2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities 

    Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque 

    The Picturesque in the CLDW

    Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data 

    Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen 

3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies 

    The “Discovery” of the Lake District 

    Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes 

    Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District 

    Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants’ Lakeland 

4 Walking in the Literary Lakes 

    Types of Lake District Walking 

    Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion 

    “Linger There a Breathing While”: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes 

5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape 

    The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence 

    Wordsworthian Listening 

    How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls 

    The “Most Expensive Luxuries”: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes 

6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell 

    Mapping Scafell 

    Climbing Scafell 

    The View from the Top 

Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping 

Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing 

Acknowledgments

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index