Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment and other issues
• Class bios and second round of self-introductions
• Project teams to be formed in next class

1. "Distant Reading" + Digital Humanities

• Paradigm of the Stanford Literary Lab
• Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers (blog)
• Pamphlet series
• Affiliated projects at Stanford: Mapping the Republic of Letters |  Spatial History Project
• Methodological contexts of "distant reading"
• Fernand Braudel and Annales historiography (e.g., Table of Contents from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1976))
• longue durée
• quantitative
• cartographic
• Sociology of Literature
• Marxist sociology of literature
• "world systems" approaches
• Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System I-IV (1974-2011)
• Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (2004)
• "the new sociology of literature" 
• Second-generation or synthetic critiques of Moretti and "distant reading"--e.g.:
• Katherine Bode, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (London: Anthem Press, London, 2012),

2. "Cultural Analytics" + New Media Studies

3. "Culturonomics" + Google Books + Industry "Analytics / Data Mining"

• cf. scholarly or open variants of Google Books: Hathi Trust, Digital Library of America