Digital Humanities from Scratch - A Pedagogy-Driven Investigation of an In-Copyright Corpus

Following the publication of Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees, scholars looking to apply digital humanities methods to literature have increasingly been drawn to “distant reading.” The influence of distant reading in digital humanities is apparent not only in the work it has inspired (see, among others, Cordell and Smith; Elson, Dames, and McKeown; Jockers; Long and So; Rhody; and Underwood) but also for its regular inclusion as a method in courses introducing DH. “Teaching digital Humanities,” it turns out, often means “teaching distant reading.”