For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human
behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however,
the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or
vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer
science and natural language processing, literary scholars have
embraced the quantitative study of literary works and have helped
make Digital Humanities a rapidly growing field. But these
developments raise a fundamental, and as yet unanswered question:
what is the meaning of literary quantity? In Enumerations, Andrew
Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental
to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles
of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter
of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of
characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a
poet’s career. How does quantity affect our understanding of
these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230
punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional
characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel,
fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer’s career?
In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers
to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis
and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary
scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone
interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.
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