Distant readings : topologies of German culture in the long nineteenth century 6: The Werther Effect I: Goethe Objecthood and the Handling of Knowledge7: Rethinking Nonfiction: Distant Reading the Nineteenth Century Science Literature Divide; 8: Distant Reception: Bringing German Books to America; 9: The One and the Many: The Old Mamselles Secret and the American Traffic in German Fiction (1868 1917); III: Contextualization; 10: The Vocations of the Novel: Distant Reading Occupational Change in Nineteenth Century German Literature; 11: Big Data Pattern Recognition and Literary Studies: N Gramming the Railway in Nineteenth Century German Fiction 12: Detoured Reading : Understanding Literature through the Eyes of Its Contemporaries (A Case Study on Anti Semitism in Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben)13: Can Computers Read; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Backcover Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Distant Reading and the Historiography of Nineteenth Century German Literature; I: Quantification; 1: Burrowss Delta and Its Use in German Literary History; 2: The Location of Literary History: Topic Modeling Network Analysis and the German Novel 1731 1864; 3: How to Read 22 198 Journal Articles: Studying the History of German Studies with Topic Models; 4: Serial Individuality: Eighteenth Century Case Study Collections and Nineteenth Century Archival Fiction; 5: The Case for Close Reading after the Descriptive Turn; II: Circulation Explores the concept of distant reading and its application to the analysis of nineteenth century German literature and culture drawing on a range of approaches from the emerging digital humanities field