Essential Readings
This page contains a collection of links to further readings that our team of researchers utilized in the project. We hope that these readings will be helpful to those who are interested in learning more about genre, literature, and digital research.
Frow, John. Genre. Taylor & Francis US, 2006.
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Hunter, Paul J. “‘The Young, the Ignorant, and the Idle’: Some Notes on Readers and the Beginnings of the English Novel.” Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany, 1987, pp. 259–82.
Mazella, David, Claude Willan, David Bishop, Elizabeth Stravoski, Walter Barta, and MaxJames. “‘All the Modes of Story’: Genre and the Gendering of Authorship in the Year 1771” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 12, no. 1 (May 16, 2022). https://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.12.1.1256.
Mazella, David. “Hume’s ‘1688’ and the Single-Year Genre of Historiography.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 39, no. 1 (November 10, 2015): 153–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/rst.2015.0006.
North, Michael. “Virtual Histories: The Year as Literary Period.” MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 62, no. 4 (2001): 407–24.
Orr, Leah. “Genre Labels on the Title Pages of English Fiction, 1660-1800.” Philological Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 1, University of Iowa, Jan. 2011, pp. 67–95.
Schöch, Christian. “Fine-Tuning Stylometric Tools: Investigating Authorship and Genre in
French Classical Theater.” Digital Humanities 2013 (blog). Accessed June 24, 2022.