This is the official repository for "Hacking Moby-Dick" seminar series at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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To access the list of digital resources, click here.
Introductions; how Moby-Dick was made, and how the British edition differs from the American one.
Brief Introduction to Voyant Tools.
Access the Voyant visualisation of Moby-Dick
Digital demo: Using Voyant tools for 'distant reading'; using Melville Electronic Library's Moby-Dick to read a 'fluid text'.
Read/discuss: Eytmology, Extracts, and Chapters 1–15.
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Digital demo: how to use Melville's Marginalia Online.
Read/discuss: Chapters 16–35
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Digital demo: how to use Melville's Marginalia Online, continued.
Read/discuss: Chapters 36–55
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Read/discuss: Chapter 56–75
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Digital demo: how to use AntConc for literary texts.
Read/discuss: Chapters 76–95
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Digital demo: how to use R to analyse and visualise textual data.
Read/discuss: Chapters 96–115
Read/discuss: Chapters 116–Epilogue