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]]> By: Data Analysis Group Post - Technoromanticism http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/where-is-the-gothic-located/#comment-420 Data Analysis Group Post - Technoromanticism Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:32:52 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=705#comment-420 [...] subgroup approached their topic of geography from a more exploratory perspective, applying external constraints to text choices (known setting [...] [...] subgroup approached their topic of geography from a more exploratory perspective, applying external constraints to text choices (known setting [...]

]]> By: Amanda Visconti http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/where-is-the-gothic-located/#comment-400 Amanda Visconti Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:31:44 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=705#comment-400 Very interesting post! I like how you broke down the novels by geography and were rigorous about using control groups (e.g. Great Expectations in your first image) and questioning your initial thesis. I'd be interested in seeing your team's list of Gothic vs. Non-Gothic novels: how did you decide? how did you handle novels that were in a gray areas? For example, Great Expectations certainly has some moody mysterious moors and burning brooding bride-dresses (Gothic: the genre of alliteration?), so what sets that novel apart--the absence of the supernatural? I know this wasn't the point of this post, but it would be interesting to see this kind of methodology expressed if your team writes a group post. It might also be interesting to mash up some current (or new) thinking about geography with these findings; some theorists read the London of Marsh's The Beetle, for example, as a monster in its own right (and maybe this is just a common Victorian Gothic if not Romantic Gothic trope, to read the city as itself monstrous?). How does this complicate your reading of geographies--would you want to contrast books by the place the writer spent most of her time while writing (urban vs. rural), or survey the settings within each novel and give each a score for how rural/urban it is, then compare these novels along that spectrum? In regards to your final statement, I'm reading a book right now you might find interesting--Stephen Ramsay's Reading Machines (http://amzn.to/u34tgC). He both argues against the idea that computers will replace what we do best as humanists (e.g. finding and weighing multiple meanings, keeping cultural artifacts alive by discussing them in new ways) while discussing some of the ways computers can aid literary thinking that we didn't touch on in class. Very interesting post! I like how you broke down the novels by geography and were rigorous about using control groups (e.g. Great Expectations in your first image) and questioning your initial thesis. I’d be interested in seeing your team’s list of Gothic vs. Non-Gothic novels: how did you decide? how did you handle novels that were in a gray areas? For example, Great Expectations certainly has some moody mysterious moors and burning brooding bride-dresses (Gothic: the genre of alliteration?), so what sets that novel apart–the absence of the supernatural? I know this wasn’t the point of this post, but it would be interesting to see this kind of methodology expressed if your team writes a group post.

It might also be interesting to mash up some current (or new) thinking about geography with these findings; some theorists read the London of Marsh’s The Beetle, for example, as a monster in its own right (and maybe this is just a common Victorian Gothic if not Romantic Gothic trope, to read the city as itself monstrous?). How does this complicate your reading of geographies–would you want to contrast books by the place the writer spent most of her time while writing (urban vs. rural), or survey the settings within each novel and give each a score for how rural/urban it is, then compare these novels along that spectrum?

In regards to your final statement, I’m reading a book right now you might find interesting–Stephen Ramsay’s Reading Machines (http://amzn.to/u34tgC). He both argues against the idea that computers will replace what we do best as humanists (e.g. finding and weighing multiple meanings, keeping cultural artifacts alive by discussing them in new ways) while discussing some of the ways computers can aid literary thinking that we didn’t touch on in class.

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