Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

"It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work."

— David Bodenhamer, coeditor of Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives

“Joanna Taylor and Ian Gregory . . . forge a novel methodology in their compelling and engaging study, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text Analysis, one that employs both close and distant reading, textual and digital analysis, in order to provide different, albeit complimentary, perspectives on Lake District writing from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.”— Eighteenth-Century Studies

“In this ambitious book, Joanna Taylor and Ian Gregory marry a conventional close reading of literary texts with a ‘distant’ reading of a large corpus of writing using digital mapping technologies . . . [T]he ‘deep maps’ presented in this book provide much food for thought [and] the insights [Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District] offers into the emerging field of Geographical Text Analysis point to the technique’s potential for historical research.”— Northern History

"Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I’ve read in a long time."

— James Loxley, co-editor of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'

“Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture."

— Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge University