Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840

January 1, 2017

PI: Asko Nivala

Most texts are spatial implying a network of places. This was especially typical of the Romantic era (1790s–1840s) that was characterised by the growing interest in historical and natural sites. Romantic Cartographies was a digital humanities project that provided new interpretations on English and German Romantic texts by focusing on spatiality. It analysed the spatiality of Romantic texts by reconstructing the various maps they implied. The geoparsing method developed during the project enabled mining locational data from an exceptionally big textual corpus. The results of text mining was visualised as superimposed maps, which produced new knowledge about the relationship of centre and periphery, or urban and natural areas in Romanticism.

Funding

2017-2019 Turku Institute for Advanced Studies
2019-2022 Academy of Finland (decision 321945)