Canon Archive : studies in quantitative formalism from the Stanford Literary Lab For the past seven years the Stanford Literary Lab founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the loudness of thousands of novels the geographic distribution of emotions the nature of a sentence and a paragraph and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than like the rest of us letting the computers lead.